SAP ABAP--Analyst Programmer

Accenture Technology Solutions
Florham Park, NJ

Accenture Technology Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accenture that employs technology enthusiasts who focus on application development, systems administration work, and software maintenance providing practical programming and technology implementation for business.


Job Description
SAP is a set of applications, built around the R/3 system, that provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting, production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3 system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server model. Professionals in the Technical specialty are technical developers, including ABAP programmers, who focus on SAP.

An Analyst Programmer contributes to the development, delivery and maintenance of technology-based business solutions. An Analyst Programmer is skilled in designing, coding, testing, and implementation of configuration changes to software applications to meet both functional and technical requirements. An Analyst Programmer may have some oversight responsibility for the technology solution and may assist in the development of the team.

Key responsibilities may include:
•Contributing to the planning and analyzing of high-level software strategies and solutions through functional and technical expertise
•Designing and implementing analyses that will identify requirements related to people, processes and technology
•Implementing or leading the implementation of the technical infrastructure, including networks, platforms and servers, enterprise enabling, application enabling, security and operations management
•Integrating technical and application components to meet business requirements
•Participating in designing the framework of a technical infrastructure, including network, platforms and servers, enterprise enabling, application enabling, security and operations management
•Designing, coding and testing program modules that meet design specifications
•Maintaining, tuning and repairing applications in order to keep them performing according to technical and functional specifications; performing preventive maintenance activities; providing user support
•Creating, executing and documenting the tests necessary to ensure that an application or technical environment meets performance requirements (technical, functional and user interface)
•Participating in identifying configuration changes to applications so that they meet business process requirements
•Participating in implementing all actions required to deploy an application; assisting in ensuring that the application meets both technical and business needs

Candidates who are curently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer
REQUIREMENTS
Required skills: Experience with SAP ABAP development of interfaces, extensions, and conversions
•2+ years relevant technical work experience required

Professional Skill Requirements
•Ability to contribute to a high-performing, motivated workgroup by applying interpersonal and collaboration skills to achieve project goals and realize value
•Ability to contribute to the creation of an environment that facilitates high performance and motivates individuals to work collaboratively as a team
•Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
•Desire to work in an information systems environment
•Excellent oral and written communication skills
•Flexibility
•Good time management skills