Experience Details

Lead design and development team on a day-to-day basis covering the whole spectrum of solution development activities. The Mobile & Service Automation Lead has a good knowledge of higher education systems and applications and is responsible for overseeing the design, integration, deployment and other technical aspects of the development of, and modifications to, applications and information systems within the University.

He/She is responsible for all aspects of supervising, supporting and developing a team of designers and developer to deliver an outstanding customer focused solutions. This includes KAUST permanent and contracting resources onsite and from remote locations.

He/She will work with Project Managers, Architects/Designers, Analyst Programmers, Systems Analysts, Testers, Business Analysts and other individuals/parties to ensure development requirements are fully documented and agreed; that all defined IT development policies, procedures and standards are followed; and that development activities are delivered within agreed

timescales, of high quality and are fit for purpose.

Skills

Autonomy

•              Works under broad direction.

•              Work is often self-initiated.

•              Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives.

•              Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of task s and/or responsibilities

Influence

•         Influences organization, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the contribution of own specialism.

•         Builds appropriate and effective business relationships.

•         Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget.

Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments

 

Complexity

•         Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities.

•         Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts.

Understands the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organizational requirements.

 

Business Skills

•         Advises on the available standards, methods, tools and applications relevant to own specialism and can make appropriate choices from alternatives.

•         Analyses, designs, plans, executes, evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets.

•         Assesses and evaluates risk.

•         Communicates effectively, both formally and informally.

•         Demonstrates leadership.

•         Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives.

•         Takes all requirements into account when making proposals.

•         Takes initiative to keep skills up to date.

•         Mentors colleagues.

•         Maintains an awareness of developments in the indust ry.

•         Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continuous operational improvement.

Demonstrates creativity, innovation and ethical thinking in applying solution s for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder

Role

    Operational:

    Defines Solution department projects, which support the organization objectives and plans, ensures that senior management is both aware of and able to provide the required resource

 

·        Contributes effectively to improving solutions development processes within the organization justified by measurable business bene fits

 

·        Facilities availability and optimum utilization of resources especially in agile projects

 

·        Monitors and reports and on the progress of development projects. Ensuring that projects and carried out in accordance with agreed standers. Methods and procedures (including secure software development)

 

·        Applies secure development improvement practices

 

·        Develop. Priorates and monitor short long terms SAP functional improvement plan for Human Resources ( SAP HR ) , Academic (SAP SLCM), Reports (SAP BO/BI), SAP BPM, SAP IDM, Documents and custom developed solution and align it with enterprise ap plication initiatives

 

•                           Specifies and designs large or complex systems. Selects appropr iat e design standards, methods and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensures they are app lied effectively.

 

•                            Reviews others' systems designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.

 

•                           Contributes to policy for se lection of architecture components. Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and assesses and manages associated risks. Ensures that the system design balances functional, service quality, security and systems management requirements.

•                           Participate on the research, acquisition, development, design, operation, and implementation of related SAP and functional applications.

•                           Sets local or team-based standards for programming tools and techniques, including security guidelines, and the selection of appropriate development methods.

•                           Advises on application of standards and methods and ensures compliance.

•                           Takes technical responsibility for all stages and/or iterations in a software development pro ject, providing method specific technical adv ice and guidance to project stakeholders.

•                           Assigns work packages, monitors performance and manages change control dynamically, to optimize productivity. Designs, codes, tests, corrects and documents complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications, and subsequent iterations, using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well engineered result.

•                           Takes part in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work .

•                            Designs and builds integration components and interfaces.

•                            Leads practical integration work under the technical direction of the system /service designer.

•                           May contribute to the overall design of the service.

•                           May define the technical criteria for product/component se lection.

•                           Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and approaches.

•                           Advises on the application of appropriate quality and/or environmental management techniques.

•                           Facilitate s improvement s to processes by changing approaches and working practices, typically using recognized models.

•                           Identify and monitor SAP and functional and technical staffing requirements for new implementations projects.

•                           Works with other team leads to resolve functional and technical issues.

•                           Develops project plan s for SAP modules supports, changes and upgrades.

•                           Develop and update SAP functional standards and procedures.

•                            Lead and monitor support processes and identify areas for improvements

•                            Review and monitor the planning, analysis, design and implementation of SAP functional applications.

•                            Provides production and transition support for implementation projects.

•                            Participates in app li cat ions improvement initiatives definitions within enterprise applications

•                            Works with the other enterprise applications teams to ensure progress against both technical and functional initiatives.

•                           Identifies and evaluate usability and functional enhancements and communicate recommendations.

•                            Ensure changes to baseline requirements are effectively applied through the appropriate change control processes and tools.

•                           Participate in explaining and presenting system design, functional requirements and documentation to technical and non­ technical users.

 

Technical Skills

Expertise and Hands on working knowledge in below skill’s

 

·        ü  SAP PI & PO Interfaces.

·        ü  SAP Workflow

·        ü  Odata & SAPUI5

·        ü  SAP Data Dictionary objects.

·        ü  SAP Classical, Interactive & ALV Reports.

·        ü  SAP BDC & BAPI.

·        ü  SAP Module Pool & FM.

·        ü  SAP Script, Smart Forms & Adobe Forms.

·        ü  SAP Enhancements: Customer Exits, User Exits, BADI, BTE & Framework.

·        ü  SAP ABAP OO, ABAP Web Dynpro & FPM.

·        ü  SAP ALE / IDOC, SOA, RFC & Interfaces and ABAP proxies

·        ü  Strong hands on ABAP Debugging & Performance Tuning.

·        ü  Good working knowledge in ABAP 740

 

Reporting

•         Coaches and monitors Applications functional permanent and contract in g staff.

•         May define the technical criteria for product / component selection.

•         Contributes to decisions about tools, methods and approaches.

•         Assesses and analyses release components. Provides input to scheduling.

•         Carries out the builds and tests in coordination with testers and component specialist s maintaining and administering the tools and methods - manual or automatic - and ensuring, where possible, inform at ion exchange with configuration management .

•         Ensures release processes and procedures are maintained.

•         Develops and updates applications functional standards and procedures

 

•             Implements stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information

•             Uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management

•             Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

•             Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seek in g effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes

•             Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifies options for consideration

•             Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests .

•             Identifies and evaluates usability and functional enhancements and communicate recommendations

 

Facilitation

•         Designs and builds integration components and interface s.

•         Leads practical integration work under the technical direction of the system /service designer. May contribute to the overall design of the service.

•         Develops priorities and monitors short/long terms functional improvement plans for Mobile & Service Automation solutions and custom developed solutions, and aligns it with enterprise applications initiatives.

•         Participate on the research, acquisition, development, design, operation, and implementation of related functional applications.

•         Provides production and transition support for implementation projects.

•         Leads the analysis and remediation of complex application functional problems.

•         Facilitates scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity.

•         Facilitates recovery, following resolution of incidents. Ensures that resolved incidents are properly documented and closed.

•         Participates in applications improvement initiatives.

•         Advises on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery needs.

•         Contributes to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source

•         Discovers and analyses requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adherence to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate

•        Obtains formal agreement by stake holders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence

•        Manages requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements.

•        Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position