Senior Technology Consultant--Ariba

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Job Duties  – Senior Technology Consultant

 

 

 

Job Duties 

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Technical and Functional Support for SAP Ariba Implementations:

• Gather business requirements for implementing SAP Ariba On-demand (Cloud), providing technical solutions for various modules including Ariba Network, Buying and Invoicing, Sourcing, Contracts, and Supplier Lifecycle and Performance (SLP);
• Provide expert functional and technical support such as L2 and L3 across Ariba cloud as well as on-premise solutions;
• Assess customer systems and assist in system configurations, including support process and dataflows for different customer requirements;
• Manage technical performance, detail planning of process implementation, and define detailed blueprints for development requirements;
• Design custom solutions for integrating Ariba with multiple customer legacy systems;
• Analyze and identify operational master data structures/files and key integration required for inbound and outbound transactional interfaces in scope, using Ariba’s Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG);
• Develop complex business reports using Ariba Analysis application, optimizing reports to improve performance;
• Participate actively in meetings with customers’ global cross-functional departments such as IT, sourcing, procurement, accounts payable, and office of enterprise solution architects to comprehend, design and perform technical feasibility evaluation on application and system integration configuration requirements;
• Transform identified business scenarios or use cases into Ariba cloud system technical requirements and review for any technical constraints with business systems. Brainstorm creative technical solutions for complex configuration scenarios;
• Assist customers to understand new features and releases. Conduct product demos to the business;
• Recommend Ariba's best practice guidelines to the customers, providing Ariba functional and technical guidance. Implement the best practice configurations in Ariba cloud systems; and
• Support data movement modeling, health check; impact analysis modeling; infrastructure; support and resolution; integration and orchestration; IT-Strategy Creation; migration planning; optimization; performance and tuning; project review; quality assurance; roadmap consulting; roles, authorizations and user management; system copy and upgrade; technical architecture, Change Management and Conception; transformation blueprint creation; web enablement; and workshop performance.

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