Technical Manager Jobs in Kansas City, KS

INTRODUCTION

The IT SAP Technical Developer III is a hands-on role responsible for designing, developing, and supporting SAP technical solutions within Dairy Farmers of America's SAP S/4HANA environment with a primary focus on SAP ABAP development, EDI/IDoc integration and technical support.

This position collaborates with functional analysts, business stakeholders, end users, and cross-functional IT teams to translate business and functional requirements into secure, reliable, and supportable SAP technical solutions aligned with DFA development, security, clean-core, governance, and change control standards.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document, test, implement, and support SAP technical solutions across SAP S/4HANA modules in collaboration with Shared Applications team members.
• Translate functional requirements into technical designs, development estimates, and scalable solutions.
• Develop and enhance reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, workflows, classes, CDS views, OData services, Fiori/SAPUI5 applications, and related SAP development components.
• Design, develop and provide technical support for IDoc interfaces, including inbound and outbound processing, extensions, mappings, and error handling.
• Support integration and interface development, including IDocs, ALE, BAPIs, RFCs, batch interfaces, and file-based integrations.
• Troubleshoot and debug IDoc processing issues, interface failures, and data inconsistencies.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative solutions for recurring interface issues.
• Monitor IDoc processing and interface queues; proactively identify and resolve issues to ensure data integrity and system reliability.
• Optimize ABAP programs and interface processing for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Apply clean-core principles by using approved extensibility approaches, released APIs, enhancement techniques, and governance practices that reduce upgrade risk and technical debt.
• Leverage approved AI-enabled development tools to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and troubleshooting while adhering to security and quality standards.
• Follow DFA development, governance, security, project management, and change control standards.
• The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but are not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

REQUIREMENTS

Required Minimum Qualifications:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or related equivalent experience
• 5+ years of SAP ABAP development experience in an SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environment
• Strong experience with ABAP development including reports, enhancements, BADIs, forms, workflows, classes, module pools, and object-oriented programming techniques
• Strong experience with integration and interface development, including IDocs, ALE, BAPIs, RFCs, APIs, OData services, and web services
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving production issues related to interfaces and data processing
• Experience supporting ABAP development across SAP modules, including SD, FICO, MM, PP, WM, HCM, and related modules
• Experience with modern SAP technologies, including SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Build, CDS views, SAP Fiori/UI5, ABAP Development Tools (ADT), SAP HANA, ABAP Cloud concepts, and side-by-side extensibility preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong technical knowledge of SAP architecture, development, and integration concepts
• Ability to design and deliver reliable, supportable SAP technical solutions based on business and functional requirements
• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills across business and technical audiences
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet project and support deadlines
• Strong understanding of IDoc processing, message control, and ALE distribution models
• Ability to analyze data issues and interface failures and determine root cause
• Strong work ethic with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, share knowledge, and accomplish team goals
• Ability to work on-call rotation
• Must be able to read, write, and speak English

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disabled/Veterans