Sr. SAP Ariba Engineer

Duration: 18+ Months (s)

Location:
Charlotte, NC - 28202 - Hybrid Role

• The Supply Chain Management Technology team within the Technology for Chief Operating Office group is seeking a Senior SAP Ariba Engineer for the Supply Chain Technology team.
• This position is primarily production support and defining, implementing, and supporting enhancements for SAP Ariba Sourcing, Contracting, Buying/Invoicing, and Supplier Lifecycle Performance.
• This position requires knowledge and understanding of Ariba best practices, multiple tools, technologies, and methodologies to support the core SAP Ariba solution and integrations to multiple systems.

• Responsible for providing production support for SAP Ariba to ensure the application meets the expectations for performance and quality of data.
• Experience working with other applications that support the Supply Chain Management (i.e., Relish
  
  IQ, Vertex, VIVA, etc.).
• Works on ongoing product and technical improvements in SAP Ariba Suite.
• Ensures completion of technical deliverables for Ariba Upstream and Downstream as outlined by Product Owner/Application Owner.
• Acts as contact for business units for application support and production issue analysis.
• Maintains understanding of end-to-end data flows for applications including business logic and controls.
• Understands and enforces policies in place to protect information and system stability.
• Works with other technology teams within the organization to deliver results efficiently.
• Tracks application and batch performance and develops plans for remediation of issues.
• Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met.
• Strengthens the team's knowledge of key software products and features through mentoring.
• Removing impediments by finding the right personnel or internal partners.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assisting with internal and external communication and improving transparency.
• Complete administrative/documentation requirements per WF policies and compliance.

• 5+ years of application development and/or implementation experience
• 5+ years of application production support experience
• 5+ years of SAP Ariba Solutions (SLP, Sourcing, Contract Management, P2P, Guided Buying and Ariba Network) experience.
• 5+ years of Ariba P2P master data and transactional data interface experience.
• 5+ years of Ariba Supplier Lifecycle Performance experience and usage of Ariba open APIs.
• 5+ years of common Ariba practices like manual file upload/download, integration monitoring, Approval flow setup, Integration setup.
• 5+ years of integration of SAP Ariba Solutions with ERP including Master Data Integration, Transfer of documents, Cross system reporting.
• 5+ years of Ariba On demand Implementation experience.

• 3+ years of RESTful or SOAP web services experience.
• 3+ years of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Internet security protocol experience.
• 3+ years of Autosys experience.
• 3+ years of NDM experience.
• Knowledge of compliance and third-party risk for suppliers.
• Contract Compliance
• People Soft ERP/Experience working with non-SAP back-end ERP is a bonus.
• Agile Scrum