SAP Security and Authorizations Consultant

Company Description

Arηs Group – part of Accenture - is a market leader in the management of complex IT projects and systems. Founded in Luxembourg in 2003, we have grown to encompass 12 entities worldwide, employing over 2,500 employees in Luxembourg, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria. With our focus on getting things done, we help our clients achieve their goals with best-of-breed solutions, superior execution and exceptional services. We offer bespoke software development, data science, infrastructure, digital trust and mobile development to government institutions at national and European level, telecom providers, and financial institutions, among others. Our bold company culture is built around working hard and playing hard, with a flat and agile structure that lends itself to efficiency and employee empowerment. We value our diverse workplace of close-knit teams and provide a place where everyone can be supported to learn and evolve.

Job Description

ARHS Group – part of Accenture - is looking for an SAP Security and Authorizations Consultant in relation to a high-level expertise integration project for one of its clients at the EU Institutions in Brussels.

Nature of the tasks

• Collaborating with business/functional analysts to produce software solutions.
• Providing input into the design of enhancements and roll outs, offering advice and providing feedback.
• Analysis of user / functional requirements. Drafting documentation (technical and functional). Translating functional requirements into technical specifications, including documentation for the support team. Prepares detailed technical specifications for development activities including enhancement, interfaces, workflows, forms, reports and data management.
• Workforce estimations.
• Programming IT software (IT development). Developing quality code and its associated documentation adhering to team and departmental development standards. Customization.
• Prototyping of IT systems, modules and components. Customization.
• Testing code (unit testing and integration testing) to ensure it produces the desirable results and performs debugging when necessary. Validation of solutions.
• Assisting with the evaluation and testing of products delivered by external system suppliers so as to ensure their compliance with the project specifications and required methodology if any.
• Providing support including analysis, development, testing, tracking and resolution.
• Assisting the support team with the training of system users.
• Participation in meetings with the end users.
• Troubleshooting, debugging, diagnosis, user support. Assisting the support team with the training of system users.

Description of the tasks

• Administration of SAP systems, covering installation/set-up, patching, migration, configuration, transporting, monitoring, and tuning, troubleshooting incidents in SAP and in systems linked to SAP, and managing permissions, authorizations, and user rights.
• Functional analysis within the field of finance and budgetary execution; analyzing, testing, documenting, and supporting information systems, in close co-operation with business owners and representatives, system architects, IT and support staff.
• Contributing to project management: planning, to definition of work plans and deliverables, organization of quality control, risk management, change management.
• Contributing to the modelling of the business processes, business rules and design of data object models, in relationship to roles and responsibilities. Keep the RASCI matrices up to date.
• Liaising with business owners, business management including senior management, and experts in budgetary management and accounting.
• Liaising with the technical design teams to ensure that the information systems implement the best solution for the business owners.
• Performing functional testing and/or liaise with the test team to help ensuring that business and functional requirements enter the test stream correctly.
• Drafting summaries, statistics, reports and briefing notes, and contribute to strategic documents.
• Providing information and training sessions to users, support teams and management.

Qualifications

Your profile

• University degree in Computer Sciences or equivalent by experience
• Client-Minded.
• Ability to participate in multi-lingual meetings, capability to communicate clearly and appropriately both spoken and in writing in English. French or German optional but welcome.
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in application developments

Knowledge and skills

• Expert knowledge of Linear programming (scripting) and of Object-Oriented programming concepts and paradigms (encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism).
• Expert Knowledge of one of the fundamental programming languages available in SAP HANA XS Advanced runtime: HTML5, Node.js (JavaScript), Java, C#, C++, Python etc.
• Expert Knowledge of Event-driven programming, and of MVC (or MVVM+Binding) programming.
• Expert at commenting code concisely yet comprehensively.
• Working Knowledge of relational database management systems (RDBMS), Structured Query language (SQL).
• Expert Knowledge of Debugging and testing, including stress testing of your own code.
• Good ability to draft technical documentation.
• Good ability to work with non-monolithic large-scale corporate systems.
• Working knowledge of architecture models, including Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Message Oriented Middleware (MOM).
• Working knowledge of interoperability concepts: messaging, service bus, queuing.
• Expert knowledge of Web Services (REST & underlying concepts such as idempotence, including oData).
• Expert Knowledge of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
• Working knowledge of a source control systems: Git or Subversion (SVN)
• Working knowledge of a code collaboration tool such as Gerrit.
• Good knowledge of software modelling (e.g. UML, BPMN, entity-relationship diagrams);
• Knowledge of a software development methodologies (e.g. SAP Activate, RUP, AGILE, SCRUM, SAP ASAP).

At least one of the following is required

• Expertise in traditional SAP ERP development, integration and test tools like ABAP, ABAP Objects, ABAP WorkBench, ABAP performance tuning, Dynpro, SQL Trace, RFC, iDoc/ALE, BAPI, SAP Workflow, testing with eCATT and within Solution Manager;
• Expertise in non-traditional SAP development, integration and test tools like SAP NetWeaver, SAP Web AS, SAP Process Integration (PI), SAP J2EE, Java Web DynPro, WSDL, Web services;
• Expertise with SAP Fiori and SAP S4/Hana;
• Good knowledge of the design and development of web and multi-tier applications;
• Expertise in any one of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS): SAP HANA DB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite.