The Technical Expert within the Process & Functional Support function plays a critical role inensuring the technical integrity, performance, and quality of SAP applications and data within the SAP S/4HANA landscape . The role acts as a bridge between functional requirements and technical implementation, contributing to the design, development, and continuous improvement of SAP solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Design & Development:
- Contribute to the design, development, and enhancement of SAP S/4HANA applications in alignment with business and functional requirements.
- Ensure adherence to SAP best practices, development standards, and architectural guidelines.
- Quality Assurance & Reviews:
- Perform technical quality reviews of developments (custom code, enhancements, interfaces, forms, and workflows).
- Validate compliance with coding standards, performance optimization, security, and maintainability requirements.
- Data Management & Integrity:
- Oversee and support data-related activities, including data modeling, migration, validation, and consistency checks within S/4HANA.
- Ensure data quality and alignment with enterprise data governance principles.
- Process & Functional Support:
- Collaborate closely with functional teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
- Provide expert input on the technical feasibility and impact of functional changes.
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing:
- Maintain comprehensive technical documentation for developments and system configurations.
- Share knowledge and mentor team members on SAP technical topics and best practices.
- Governance & Compliance:
- Ensure developments comply with internal governance, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure traceability of technical changes.
- Conformity Criteria:
- Able to analyse functional requirements and translate these to SAP technical implementations
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant project experience in one or more SAP modules, preferably within SAP S/4HANA environments
- Expertise in SAP UI5/Fiori for frontend and advanced ABAP OO for backend (minimum 5+ years experience)
- Hands-on experience with S/4HANA, including CDS views, OData services and RESTful
- ABAP programming (RAP):
- Experience with Adt (Eclipse)
- Proven experience in the following work areas: SAP data services developments: WebServices, ... + Data exchange formats and protocols (SOAP, XML, JSON, REST,...)
- Solid understanding of best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code
- Experience with ABAP Workbench, ABAP Objects (OO), Workflow, IDoc, ALV Grid, and ABAP Web Dynpro
- Fluent in French and/or Dutch + English
- Min. 2d/week in Brussels
Evaluation Criteria
- Experience level and breadth: Demonstrates SAP technical expertise with deep specialization in one or more SAP modules and SAP Fiori, including architecture design, custom enhancements, and enterprise-grade deployments.
- Shows clear career progression, strong technical depth, and a broad understanding of SAP landscapes and Integrations.
- Knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA: Familiarity with SAP S/4 HANA.
- Understanding of SAP business processes: Strong understanding of one or more SAP business processes, with the ability to align technical design and quality assurance activities with operational and business requirements.
- Leadership and team collaboration: Recognized as an enthusiastic team player with people management or coaching experience, fostering collaboration within multidisciplinary teams.
- Analytical and problem-solving ability: Strong analytical mindset, able to identify root causes, distinguish key issues, and provide quick, effective solutions.
- Communication and stakeholder engagement: Ability to communicate QA standards to technical and non-technical stakeholders, experience working with cross-functional teams (functional, technical, business), and capability to challenge solutions constructively to maintain quality standards.
