Application Developer - ERP
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Job Purpose and Impact
An Application Developer is a professional responsible for supporting the design, integration, and implementation of large-scale multi-functional applications, contributing to scalable solutions that align with business objectives. This role helps bridge functional needs with technical execution, ensuring systems are reliable and adaptable. Experience in large & complex applications is required, with a preference for experience in SAP. Operating with minimal supervision, this role performs moderately complex applications testing, requirements gathering & process analysis, quality assurance, configuration, and ongoing support for smooth, stable, and timely delivery of solutions.
Key Accountabilities
- APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT: Sets up and maintains application configurations to meet user and business requirements while developing and recommending and implementing improvements to standard and moderately complex application support processes and procedures.
- APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & DEPLOYMENT: Performs programming, configuration, testing and deployment of fixes or updates for application version releases. Designs, configures, tests, deploys and supports large and complex application changes and fixes in accordance with established standards and practices.
- COMMUNICATION & SUPPORT: Keeps an open channel of communication with users stakeholders and responds to standard and moderately complex application support requests and needs.
- APPLICATION SUPPORT: Conducts application support activities to maintain system stability and meet business outcomes.
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Collaborates effectively with business partners, technical peers & vendors in multi-functional global teams, including business partners to ensure solutions and configurations align with business requirements and best practices.
- INCIDENT & REQUEST MANAGEMENT: Reviews, analyzes and prioritizes incoming incident tickets and user requests, driving timely resolution within agreed processes, balancing delivery speed with quality and stability.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- ERP & DOMAIN EXPERTISE: Hands-on experience with enterprise-scale applications (ERP preferred) in a techno functional capacity, with exposure to one or more ERP business domains (eg. Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Agriculture, Finance). Translating business requiremts to technical specifications
- FULL LIFE CYCLE IMPLEMENTATION: Proven experience working on large and complex application implementations (e.g. ERP) across the full lifecycle, including system design and implementation, deployment, go‑live, and post‑go‑live stabilization and support leveraging Agile, Scrum, and/or DevOps practices.
- PROGRAMMING & CUSTOMIZATION: Knowledge and/or experience with languages such as Java, C#, Python, or platform specific scripting (eg. ABAP for SAP) for application customization and experience with various pipelines is preferred
- DATA MIGRATION & INTEGRATION: Experience with data migration strategies and large scale data transfers from legacy systems, including ETL processes
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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