SAP XI/PI Consultant
Key Function: To provide Consulting Services
Key Objectives:
- Analysis of business requirements
- Design and implementation of full solutions
- Identify integration issues and develop solutions to these issues
- Coach and develop skills within a project team
- Work effectively in mixed Client and Consultancy teams
Competencies:
- Is able to own the production and delivery of a presentation to middle managers
- Uses a broad range of consultancy tools when delivering work
- Listens to people and only talks when a positive contribution can be made
- Can facilitate a client workshop
- Can develop part of an overall client presentation and deliver it competently
- Uses a set of basic consulting tools
- Is able to conduct one-to-one interviews with middle managers
- Can contribute to a mixed workshop process
Content Excellence:
- Able to work with client to confirm requirements
- Understands the general strategic and operational dimensions of the relevant industry and applies to solution
- Can lead functional or technical design workshops
- Can explain the implementation methodology and relate it to different scenarios where it has been used
- Is able to take client needs and translate them into an appropriate technical solution
- Can design and adjust solution within the business context
Delivery Excellence:
- Able to effectively manage a team of client team members
- Understands delivery within a fixed price model and able to operate effectively within those constraints
- Can take ownership of sub-plans for specific IBP's and can plan own time to ensure project milestones are met
- Able to take an issue, then plan and deliver a solution using own initiative, with little guidance
- Identifies and escalates issues and risks within project structure
- Can build strong relationships with consultants within the project
- Able to receive feedback / coaching on performance from other members of the team positively
Client Development:
- Can contribute technical or procedural sections to a simple proposal
- Can identify and escalate business development opportunities
Knowledge/Skills/Experience:
- Extensive SAP experience - Essential
- Able to install (or to assist & cross train others) in the installation of SAP XI version 3.0 - Essential
- Analyse & assess clients required system landscape & identify interfaces which could be realized via SAP XI 3.0 - Essential
- Capable of identifying key sizing information from expected interfaces & thus impact of the integration (SAP XI 3.0) solution - Essential
- Lead interface design workshops & co-ordinate client input, technical legacy/heritage system resources & SAP Functional resources, to document functional & technical interface designs - Essential
- Configure & develop interfaces between systems via SAP XI 3.0, covering connections, data mapping, routing, business logic/rles & persistence/control - Essential
- Interface SAP XI 3.0 with other connectors (or middleware) - Essential
- Integrate SAP XI 3.0 to the final SAP API's (BAPI's, IDOC's or Function modules - Essential
- Integrate SAP CRM with SAP XI 3.0 - Essential
- Able to assist with other middleware based functional & technical designs, when required tactically, if any SAP XI 3.0 limitations are identified, thus requiring other middleware solutions - Essential
- Liaise & co-ordinate with SAP Vendor resources for any joint SAP working & any Vendor solution assistance/investigation - Essential
- General XML & webservice experience to support open web based application integration, as well as broad understanding of other protocols or approaches - Essential
- Capable of cross training others in SAP XI 3.0 - Essential
- Able to assist with SAP CRM or SRM functional configuration if necessary - Essential
- Suitably skilled and trained in SAP XI to be acceptable to clients as a premium skilled resource - Essential
- SAP PI 7.0 - Desirable
- Language skills or project experience outside the UK - Desirable
Vacancy for: |
SAP XI/PI Consultant |
Location: |
UK + Travel |
Aspire Contact: |
Tony Williams |
Email: |
tony@aspire-it.com |
Phone: |
+441342 833939 |
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