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Job Description: SAP SME Consultant - ABAP
Location: Neenah or Oconomowoc in Wisconsin area (Day one onsite - local or who can be ready to relocate to WI)
12 Months Contract
Note: Technical + we're looking for someone to work as a business analyst too
Role Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled SAP ABAP Consultant with deep experience across ECC and S/4HANA environments and can work as a SAP SME for validating client Tech Specs for moving data from SAP to a data lake ( primarily written for SAP data sources ). The ideal candidate will be proficient in custom development, Z-table data extraction, and validating detailed technical documentation that maps extracted data to business logic. This role requires strong analytical capabilities, cross-functional collaboration, and strong client communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand technical specifications that are written by ABAP developer on ABAP programs in ECC and S/4HANA systems.
- Analyze technical specifications that are written to reverse engineer the custom Z-tables across modules (FI, MM, SD, HR, etc.).
- Collaborate with functional teams to understand business logic and data dependencies.
- Prepare comprehensive technical documentation including:
- Data extraction logic
- Field-level mappings
- Business rule interpretation
- Source-to-target lineage
- Responsible to review the technical specification document and ask the right clarifications such that data engineers could then use the technical specification to develop data lake ETL routines.
Required Skills & Experience:
Core ABAP (ECC & S/4HANA) experience to review and validate technical specifications:
- Classical & OO ABAP programming experience
- ALV Reports (Classical and OO)
- BDC, BAPI, RFC, SmartForms, Adobe Forms
- User Exits, Customer Exits, BADIs
- Function Modules, Modularization, Macros
Advanced ABAP (S/4HANA-centric) experience to review and validate technical specifications:
- CDS Views (Basic & Composite)
- AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures)
- OData Services and Fiori integration
- ABAP RESTful Programming Model (RAP)
- Core Data Services annotations
- Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF)
Data Handling & Extraction experience to review and validate technical specifications:
- Z-table extraction with joins, filters, delta logic
- Performance tuning of SELECT statements
- Open SQL and Native SQL usage
- Data dictionary object creation (Z tables, views, domains, data elements)
- Handling clustered and pooled tables (ECC legacy)
Documentation & Technical Design:
- Technical Specification Document (TSD) preparation, review and validation
- Field-level mapping and source-to-target lineage
- Business logic annotation and transformation rules
- Functional-to-technical traceability