Global Digital Services is providing its internal partners, the BASF business and service units with innovative and efficient business solutions anywhere in the world with competitive costs globally. The unit Digitalization of Services & Core Systems are supporting mainly BASF service units with differentiated solutions and IT products under a strong agile culture. This means, offering new and innovative services, that help them meet BASF Group growth targets. 

The APAC Procurement product team in the Procurement Product Family, provides digital and core SAP solutions to fulfil the requirements from BASF companies globally. 

The SAP Technical Consultant understand functional solution designs and translate them into technical designs and implementation. In summary, you will be involved in the design and development of both functional and technical applications, as well as in the enhancement of existing applications. 

Responsibilities and Key Outcomes  

Develop, configure, and test complex applications, including quality assurance in cooperation with our business partners and third-party providers 

Implementation through development (ABAP/ ABAP OO) and/or customizing in SAP and of relevant digital applications would be required 

Provide support during change requests / projects with early consulting which comprises efforts estimation and high-level design solution. Thereafter, proceed and ensure further development, evolution, and optimization 

Responsible for designing possible technical solutions for subject-specific business requirements in coordination with other DevOps engineers and internal business partners within BASF

While performing studies and evaluations of purchased software, you will be responsible for designing and implementing prototypes in projects using new technologies such as S4/HANA, BTP, Fiori, API and in a distributed system landscape (SAP UI5, SaaS, PaaS including cloud applications) 

Responsible for managing & maintaining operational business support in BASF SAP application landscape. In case of incidents, ensure restoring normal application services as quickly as possible and minimize adverse impact on operations including Problem management, Change Management (incl. small business requests) and Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) 

Steer third party provider in terms of solution or service delivery of procurement topics in Asia Pacific 

It is expected that all tasks are performed according to the standardized BASF guidelines and framework; such as Project Lifecycle, Global Release Management and Solution Manager; as well as agile new methods (such as scrum) consistently 

Able to communicate complex contexts convincingly to the stakeholders within BASF and build stable relationships 

In the digitalization/innovation aspect, act as a Global / Regional representative of BASF Digital community, supporting BASF Digital roadmap, helping GDS to identify, execute and implement customer-centric digital solutions in an actionable and measurable way.

Job Requirements   

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree required with preference in Information Technology  

At least 6 - 8 years professional experience in a role as Technical Consultant, as software designer or as developer 

Functionally worked with Workflow, BAPI, User-Exits, SAPScript/Smartform, ABAP Queries, BADI, BDC, Search help, Transaction variants, Enhancement points 

Good programming skills in an object-oriented programming language; Knowledge in UI5, ABAP OO or JAVA 

Hands on experience of OO Design Patterns and OO Design Principles, and SAP FIORI 

Good knowledge and experience in development with CDS views in ABAP Dictionary 

Familiar with SAP interfaces, knowledge about EDI, IDoc and ABAP-Proxy communication 

Experiences in some of the following areas: 

Microservices development/orchestration  

RESTful web services 

Middleware/Gateway 

Cloud Native Development  

Programming Language (object-oriented) i.e Java, .NET, ASP.NET, Python 

Robotic Process Automation 

Security Technology 

SAP S/4 HANA 

Very good understanding and experience in cloud platforms e.g SAP BTP and Azure Cloud; also with integration technologies including KAFKA, Process Director etc 

Good to very good analytical skills and high developed ability to foster sustainability 

Strong proactive thinking; well-developed proactive and self-driven character  

Excellent English communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills in an international team combined with a very high level of customer orientation .

Knowledge and understanding in Material Management and Invoice Verification modules within the SAP application is essential.  

Experiencing Agile way of working or agile implementation approach 

Strong Digital mindset to accelerate BASF Digitalization transformation journey