This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a SAP Business Suite Integration Developer – SAP PI/PO & APIs based in South Africa.
This is a remote contract opportunity for an experienced SAP Integration Developer specializing in SAP Business Suite, SAP PI/PO, APIs, and enterprise interface development. You will design, develop, and support integrations connecting SAP environments with non-SAP applications and external platforms. The role involves translating business requirements into robust technical integration solutions across APIs, web services, data formats, and SAP interface technologies. You will manage mappings, transformations, routing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support to ensure reliable data exchange. Close collaboration with SAP functional teams, business stakeholders, and external application teams will be essential throughout the integration lifecycle. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to complex enterprise integration initiatives while applying strong engineering, security, and change-management practices.
Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, maintain, and support integrations between SAP Business Suite systems and external or non-SAP applications.
- Develop and manage interfaces using SAP PI/PO, ensuring reliable and scalable integration flows.
- Work with REST, SOAP, OData, XML, JSON, IDoc, RFC, and BAPI technologies to enable effective system communication.
- Analyze business and integration requirements and translate them into appropriate technical integration architectures and solutions.
- Develop mappings, interface configurations, message transformations, routing logic, and other integration components.
- Monitor interfaces and ensure consistent, secure, and reliable data exchange between SAP and third-party systems.
- Troubleshoot interface failures, performance issues, data inconsistencies, and production integration incidents.
- Collaborate with SAP functional teams, business users, and external application teams throughout the integration lifecycle.
- Participate in integration testing, user acceptance testing, deployment activities, and ongoing production support.
- Prepare and maintain technical documentation covering interfaces, configurations, integration flows, and architecture.
- Apply integration best practices, security standards, authentication controls, and established change-management processes.
- Contribute to continuous improvements in integration performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support.
Requirements:
- 4–8 years of professional experience in SAP Integration and SAP PI/PO development.
- Strong hands-on experience integrating SAP Business Suite systems with internal and external applications.
- Solid expertise in SAP PI/PO and enterprise interface development.
- Strong understanding of API and integration architecture, including REST and SOAP web services.
- Good knowledge of SAP integration technologies and interfaces such as IDoc, RFC, BAPI, and OData.
- Practical experience working with XML, JSON, data transformation, mapping, routing, and message processing.
- Good understanding of common integration patterns, exception handling, monitoring, and error resolution.
- Experience working across both SAP and non-SAP application environments.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams, functional stakeholders, business users, and external partners.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage integration activities within structured delivery and change-management processes.
- Experience with SAP Integration Suite or Cloud Integration (CPI) is an advantage.
- SAP S/4HANA integration experience is desirable.
- Experience with API Management and cloud-based integrations is a plus.
- Basic knowledge of Java, Groovy, or another programming language is beneficial.
- Understanding of authentication mechanisms such as OAuth, certificates, and basic authentication is advantageous.
Benefits:
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Contract-based opportunity.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Flexible working conditions.
- Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
- Exposure to SAP Business Suite, PI/PO, APIs, enterprise integrations, and modern cloud integration technologies.
- Opportunity to work across SAP and non-SAP enterprise environments.
- Dynamic and supportive remote working environment.
- Experience with complex integration architecture, production support, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
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