SAP Programming Consultant

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT:
THE CANDIDATES WILL BE INVOLVED IN MIGRATING EXISTING WEB APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPLEMENT AND INTERFACE WITH OUR EXISTING ERP SYSTEM (SAP) FROM AN ON-PREM IBM WEBSPHERE ENVIRONMENT TO A CLOUD MANAGED KUBERENETES CLUSTER. THIS EFFORT WILL INCLUDE:
REFACTORING OF CODE
IMPLEMENTING AUTOMATED DEVOPS PROCESSES (UNIT TESTING, REGRESSION TESTING, STATIC AND DYNAMIC SECURITY SCANS, DEPLOYMENTS, ETC.)
MATURING OUR CURRENT SDLC AND DEVOPS PRACTICES AND AUTOMATION
ACCELERATING OUR CURRENT VELOCITY

DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
PARTICIPATES IN ALL AGILE ACTIVITIES
o BACKLOG GROOMING
o DEMOS/EVIEWS
o RETROSPECTIVES
PARTICIPATES IN ALL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
o DEVELOPMENT
o CODE REVIEWS
o TESTING
o WORKS TO COMPLETE WORK ITEM ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA AND THE TEAM'S DEFINITION OF DONE.
WORKS WITHIN THE TEAM'S DEVOPS MODEL AND ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR END-TO-END QUALITY OF THEIR WORK AND SUPPORT.
WORKS WITH THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM, ARCHITECTURE, AND STAKEHOLDERS TO DESIGN AND ENHANCE BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL PROCESSES AND SOLUTIONS.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY AND WORK IN A COLLABORATIVE, TEAM ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT.
JAVA WEB DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE INCLUDING MAVEN, JUNIT, JAVAEE.
UNDERSTANDING OF AND PRACTICE USING SOLID OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN PRINCIPLES.
EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS.
EXPERIENCE WITH DOCKER.
EXPERIENCE USING KUBERNETES AND DECLARATIVE CONFIGURATION.
EXPERIENCE USING GIT AND STANDARD BRANCHING STRATEGIES SUCH AS GITFLOW.

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
IBM WEBSPHERE DEVELOPMENT AND//OR ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE.
AZURE AND//OR AWS CLOUD DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE.
o MANAGED KUBERNETES
o SERVERLESS SERVICES SUCH AS AWS LAMBDA, AZURE FUNCTIONS, ETC.
o MANAGED DATABASE SERVICES SUCH AS AWS RDS, AZURE SQL MANAGED INSTANCE, ETC.
EXPERIENCE OPERATING ON AN AGILE DEVELOPMENT TEAM (SCRUM AND//OR KANBAN)
UNDERSTANDING OF MATURE RESTFUL API DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
UNDERSTANDING OF AND//OR EXPERIENCE DEVELOPING, USING, ADMINISTERING SAP AND//OR SAP 4/HANA
EXPERIENCE USING AZURE DEVOPS FOR CI//CD PIPELINE DEVELOPMENT, BACKLOG MANAGEMENT, ETC.
UNDERSTANDING OF AND PRACTICE USING TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT PRINCIPLES