Glencore is one of the world’s largest diversified natural resource companies and a leading producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that make everyday life possible. Through a network of assets, customers, and suppliers spanning the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market, and distribute the raw materials that enable decarbonization while meeting today’s energy needs. With around 140,000 employees and contractors and a strong presence in more than 35 countries—across both established and emerging resource regions—our industrial and marketing activities are supported by a global network of more than 40 offices.

Purpose and Objective

The SAP Technical Lead will be responsible for leading and managing a team of SAP technical professionals to ensure the successful implementation, configuration, and maintenance of SAP S/4 solutions. The technical lead is a key advisor to functional leads/consultants, business process owners and project teams, assessing and articulating effects of solutions on existing technology landscape and identifying scalability and performance impacts.

The technical lead plays a pivotal role in building the technology roadmap, architecting strategies, policies and standards. (S) he is responsible for authoring and maintaining systems documentation: systems landscape diagrams and solution maps across development, QA and production layers. The role is responsible for leading integrations between internal enterprise platforms and external systems and services. The technical lead plays a crucial role in the Information Systems organization, advising on new technology opportunities, verifying continuous improvement of existing technologies, providing long-term stability and cost-effective sustainment of the entire landscape.

Qualifications

University degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
SAP Certification
10+ years’ expert knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA and cross-functional integration points with SAP suite of products
8+ years’ knowledge of ABAP, Fiori UI5, Integration and Cloud Technologies
Strong problem solving and decision-making skills

Additional Qualifications, Experience & Skills (preferred)

Strong understanding of integration and build for SAP MM, FI-CO, EAM (PM), PS
strong understanding of ABAP OO
integration experience with SAP AIF using IDOCs, SOAP, RESTful APIs
experience with ODATA and CDS development
knowledge of BTP, including CPI
Understanding of SAP security including SAP GRC
familiar with workflow design, implementation, and troubleshooting
experience delivering SAP upgrades: SPAU and SPDD
Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders across the organization at all levels.
global, cross-cultural work experience

Key Accountabilities

The SAP Technical Lead is business-oriented and operates across the organization to ensure that communication flows horizontally to and from upstream and downstream processes and teams. This position operates within a broad community of practice that spans operational, technical and change management groups through regular interactions and must be successful in bringing the right people together and gaining agreement and alignment among them. (S)he is a coach within the information systems organization, acting as a consultant to the consultants.

demonstrates expertise in developing, optimizing and maintaining complex, global systems landscapes
anticipates technical risk and designs error/exception handling measures
recognizes opportunities for re-use, reduction of dependencies and interactions between components
understands the SDLC
takes ownership of issue resolution
promotes best practices and industry standards
communicates effectively using plain language and analogies or examples to explain complex concepts to non-technical teams
communicates a clear vision and objectives
provides guidance and is adept at coaching other architects and technical specialists
develops strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
performs well under pressure and can manage multiple priorities
prefers self-direction
partners across organizations to deliver outcomes through teamwork

At Glencore Copper SAOP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that enables the active and full participation of everyone in our organization, in line with fair employment practices.

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