Discovery – Corporate Business Systems

SAP Integration Specialist

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Corporate Integration systems

Working in a high-performance organization that prides itself in attracting the finest talent, we challenge ourselves to find solutions that make a difference in the world. Our environment is always buzzing with energy and smart, motivated people working on finding the best way to move forward.

An SAP Integration Specialist position is available in the Group Compliance team to work on exciting and dynamic new projects and enhancements.

Key Purpose

• Work closely with a passionate development team to design, develop and maintain SAP CPI and SAP IBO solutions for a dynamic, multi-national company that sets the benchmark in its industry.
• Must be a team player and have the ability to work with both vertical and horizontal colleagues both in a formal and informal setting.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Understanding the business requirements and through a structured process documenting, validating, and translating it into Product Requirement Specifications
• To coordinate the end-to-end integration of technical solutions across various technical teams to ensure the alignment of technical solutions across all technology disciplines.
• Working with multiple business areas and multiple teams that require deep integration of solutions
• Evaluate and measure the efficiencies of business processes and provide recommendations
• Proactively identify risk pertaining to the project.

• Provide Operational Excellence
• Manage development of an integration framework
• Work with Partners, assess operational quality, identify gaps, and manage closure of gaps
• Understand development requirements and be able work with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver these
• Ability to communicate to Business as well as Technical Teams and 3rd party stakeholders.

Technical Competencies:

Processes:

ITIL (Incident, Change, Release, Problem Management),

Technical Skills:

• Familiarity with SAP Integration Suite, SAP Process Orchestration/Integration, Web Services, APIs, and other integration patterns
• Proficiency in various integration technologies and protocols such as REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, etc.
• Experience in configuration and extension of standard iFlows
• Handling various integration adapters (SFSF, ODATA, SFTP, IDOC, SOAP, HTTP, Process Direct, REST) to exchange messages between systems.
• Experience in handling security artifacts, encryption, and decryption mechanisms and SSH keys
• Various data transformation/manipulation techniques (Graphical Mapping, User Defined Functions, XSLT, Groovy Scripting, Java Mapping).
• Business process modelling experience.
• Worked on CTS and File transport system.
• Experience with Certificates, firewalls etc.
• Knowledge of SAP client / server proxy technology.

Education and Experience

Experience and Knowledge:

• Previous ESB implementation and development experience (4+ Years)
• SAP (PO/PI) Process Orchestration/Process Integration or SAP Cloud Integration Suite Experience (7+ Years)
• SAP (PO/PI) Process Orchestration/Process Integration or SAP Cloud Integration Suite certification

Educational Qualifications:

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology or Computer Science

Employment Equity  

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.