Lead ABAP Developer to lead a team of up to 10 SAP ABAP Developers

Beschreibung

For our customer – based in Zurich – we are looking for an experienced
Lead ABAP Developer to lead a team of up to 10 SAP ABAP Developers
for a long term (12++ months) contract.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
• Insurance industry experience in the area of financial accounting and/or controlling
• Experienced to conduct and lead workshops and to cover financial accounting and controlling topics from a development perspective
• Well experienced in source system integration in SAP environment
• Well experienced in ABAP development in a SAP FI/CO environment
• Experienced in the deployment/localization of SAP CORE solutions
• Experienced to analyze functional interface requirements and to define technical specifications
SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE
• Ability to understand functional interface and program requirements and develop standardized solutions
• Ability to design and document an integrated system landscape
• Strong SAP ABAP skills, any other programming language as an asset
• Written and spoken English
• German Language skills are an asset
GENERAL
• Strong FI/CO experience
• Able to lead a team of up to 10 developers
• Experience with near or off shore models
KEY TASKS & ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Lead realization activities for ABAP developments and own deliverables from a development perspective
• Define and plan work packages and allocate them to the team resource
• Track developments
• Status reporting on developments
• Identify/realize corresponding IT harmonization potentials across European Business Units
• Support, review and validate functional specifications
• Write technical specifications
• Review and enhance local Change Requests for the ones requiring ABAP development
• Perform ABAP developments based on technical specifications
• Perform unit testing
• Support integration testing (defect fixing)
• Support migration activities
• Act as contact point for all related IT developments questions
• Support and follow-up monthly effort/cost reporting (central/local, actual/ETC vs. plan/budget)
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of the integrated overall project plan (central/local, main activities/deliverables incl. critical path)