SAP Technical ABAP Lead Developer

Position Overview

Company Overview

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of "shaping a sustainable world together," we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Position Overview

The Information Technology team, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is seeking a SAP Technical ABAP Lead Developer! Within Novelis's Global Applications Center of Excellence (COE), the lead SAP developer is responsible for Co-ordinating/leading Offshore/onshore Developers, Coding, Provide Architectural mentorship. This individual will have the opportunity to work closely with the Functional IT Leads to translate functional requirements into code-based solutions!

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor for business and IT, providing clear technology and process direction to collaborators and performing the technical validation of supplier solutions to ensure that they are in line with Company standards.
• Understands business requirements, critical success factors, fit gap to cutover, launch and post-implementation support
• Develop and promote technical design standards, best practices, guidelines, and procedures
• Provide architectural mentorship and actively engaged definition and constant development of technology strategy
• Continuous development of own skills; Mentor and assist in development of juniors
• Adhere to Methodologies - Ensure quality, compliance and security is built-in on all areas of work
• Stay ahead of evolving SAP product offerings; Contribute to knowledge base and lead by example
• Ability to read design documentation to deliver accurate estimates for development (including analysis, development, technical unit testing)
• Support improvements and incidents for business critical and high priority integrations involving ERP and other applications
• Collaborate with teams to bring technical innovation, such as creation and usage of API's for business scenarios
• Provides technical design recommendations ensuring scalability of the solution
• Actively participate in the SAP community or practice as Integration leader
• Expert in UI5 (Fiori) configuration and development using WebIDE/Eclipse
• BTP (Business Technology Platform) experience nice to have
• Proficient in developing OData gateway services including CDS views
• Experienced with AMDP(ABAP Managed Database procedure)
• Experienced in BRF+
• Custom objects include all RICEFW - with solid understanding in Idocs, Smartforms, Enhancements (user-exits, BADI's, etc)
• Knowledge in SD, MM, PP, FI/CO, APO, PM required
• Leadership skills to work with and manage offshore developers
• Ability to manage own transports as well as offshore transports
• Knowledge of ChaRM transport management - optional, will be trained
• Ensures alignment to organization, project standards and documentation standards
• Promotes the application maintenance, project methodology and processes standards defined by IT
• Documents unit testing, technical specifications
• Actively supports the outsourcing partner when needed or requested by the Operations Support Lead

Challenges to expect:

• Responsible for developing code that supports different plants yet the solution needs to remain scalable and global
• Conducts and reviews coding solutions that are developed by external, offshore resources

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in IT or related field
• Minimum 5 years' in S/4, ABAP
• Minimum 5 years' experience in oData development
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Fiori development and troubleshooting
• Leadership ability required
• Must thrive in a team oriented, highly collaborative workplace
• Very good communication skills, ability to co-ordinate with project team and work independently.
• Must be able to prioritize across multiple projects and initiatives in a global setting.
• Ability to build Technical Specifications, Perform Technical Testing
• Ability to apply technology and consulting to tackle a client business problem.
• Ability to lead and providing direction and oversight to offshore resources.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, Critical thinking and thought leadership capabilities; ability to institutionalize new tools, processes, and technologies.
• Great teammate with ability to collaborate and direct multidisciplinary teams (could be from different implementation partners)
• Ability to engage with client collaborators and project team members both onsite and offshore.

Preferred qualifications

• SAP Certification Preferred

What We Offer:

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs

This role offers a hybrid schedule. Our hybrid approach is designed to foster employee work-life balance and powers connection, collaboration, and a sense of community among our teams.

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Location Profile

Novelis' Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis' North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis' corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

Disclaimer

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