SAP ABAP Developer

Description
Organization: Government Operating Unit
Location: Reston, VA

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture’s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Business Consulting, Business and Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description
Business & Systems Integration Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance. SAP professionals have skills in delivering SAP enterprise solutions. The focus is on architecting a solution using SAP to achieve a defined business outcome.

Key responsibilities may include:
•Supervising process and functional design activities
•Creating functional requirements as an input to application design
•Developing and testing detailed functional designs for business solution components and prototypes
•Supervising application build, test, and deploy activities
•Planning and executing data conversion activities
•Driving test planning and execution
•Ability to meet travel requirements


All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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

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

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications
•Requires 3+ years of experience coding with ABAP and demonstrated competency in technical designs, coding and unit testing for custom programs
•Requires 2+ years of experience with conversions, interfaces, and custom features/functions on an existing application
•Demonstrated expertise with iDocs, BAPI’s BDC’s
•Prefer experience with SAPscript/Smartforms
•Prefer experience with Report Writer/Report Painter
•Complete basic technical designs from functional designs
•Complete high level coding designs, and detailed designs of assigned programs or initiatives
•Execute assigned programming development activities
•Document designs, code, and testing activities per standard templates
•Complete unit testing for all programming assignments


Professional Skill Requirements

•Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
•Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment
•Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
•Strong coaching and project management skills
•Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills