SAP ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) Developer - Los Angeles Unified School District : Job Details

INFORMATION ABOUT LAUSD

We are LAUSD. We are at the forefront of innovation in public education, focused on a clear and inspiring vision of the future for all of our students as they venture forward on their journey as lifelong learners. Here, you will have the opportunity to exercise your potential in a role supporting the business of education. Our work directly contributes toward the goal of ensuring that our students graduate ready for the world – ready to thrive in college, career and life. LAUSD is the second largest school district in the nation with an enrollment of nearly 575,000 students. We serve an area totaling 710 square miles, with over 1,190 schools and educational centers, and we employ over 74,000 individuals, making us one of the largest employers in our city.

BENEFITS

Insurance: District paid premiums for your choice of several medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents; and life insurance plans. Retirement: Membership in the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS). Vacation: 24 days each year. Paid Holidays: Up to 13 days.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Typical duties may include:

• Plans, supervises organizes, and reviews the work of SAP programmers engaged in performing the following duties:

- Performs systems analysis, programming, and development on complex enterprise-wide technology projects.

- Performs technical analyses of business requirements to identify IT customer solutions.

- Designs, builds, tests, implements, maintains, and enhances SAP programs supporting the enterprise applications.

- Designs new functionalities to meet the District's requirements and improve system efficiency.

- Identifies, investigates, analyzes, and recommends solutions to software problems.

- Develops programs using SAP's Legacy System Migration Workbench Batch Data Conversion

- Utility Facilities to convert data from external systems to the SAP enterprise system and to facilitate periodic mass changes to data in the system.

- Analyzes and documents system interface requirements between applications and the SAP system.

- Designs, builds, tests, implements, maintains, and enhances SAP reports and interfaces, SAP data services, and SAP UI5 to and from external systems.

- Creates and maintains technical specifications of programming activities.

- Reviews functional specifications and determining if the design function comply with District standard practices.

- Provides professional expertise to formulate designs for system enhancements/changes for improved system and business processing.

• Plans, schedules, supervises, coordinates, delegates, and reviews the programming and development of complex enterprise-wide technology projects.

• Establishes and implements technical procedures for work performed by assigned staff.

• Mitigates risk to projects and resolves technical problems threatening success of projects.

• Participates in studies of organizational, staffing, budget, equipment, and materials.

• Plans and coordinates training of IT personnel in applying innovative and advanced analytical and programming techniques including updating skills of legacy system programmers to the ABAP language.

• Manages relationships with hardware and software vendors.

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MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION: Graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems, computer science, or a closely related field.

EXPERIENCE: Five years of experience as a SAP programmer which included experience developing conversions, interfaces, enhancements, user exits, and reports. At least two years of the above experience must be in a team lead or supervisory role.

SPECIAL:

A valid California Driver License

Use of an automobile

Employees in the class are subject to call at any hour.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate would have the knowledge of:

• SAP enterprise software components, specifically the SAP ABAP, OOABAP, SQLScript, UI5 Script Programming Language, SAP reports, user exits, SAPScript, IDocs, BAPI's, ALE, OData Services, and other programming pertaining to SAP technologies

• SAP ASAP and ACTIVATE methodology and System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Techniques of systems analysis, design, and data modeling as they relate to SAP systems and applications

• Information technology concepts and capabilities as they relate to SAP/Enterprise-wide programs, including software engineering, formal software development methodologies, and principles of software quality assurance

• Principles of program documentation

• New trends in the field of information technology and their implications for the design and development of enterprise software

• Principles, procedures, and methods used in data acquisition, storage, structuring, and retrieval

• Principles of project management and project risk mitigation

• Principles of supervision and training

• Principles and practices of business and public administration

The ideal candidate should also have the ability to:

• Analyze business requirements, methods and procedures and adapt them to achievable information technology solutions

• Effectively manage large, high-risk IT projects

• Analyze existing manual and computerized procedures and develop improvements

• Write highly efficient and maintainable programming code in SAP ABAP, OOABAP, HR-ABAP, SQLScript, and UI5 Scripting

• Write clear and logical reports, instructions, and documentation

• Develop test data and analyze problems in programs

• Supervise and train IT personnel

• Communicate complex concepts effectively orally, schematically, and in writing

• Work effectively on assigned projects independently or as a team member

• Work effectively with customers and IT colleagues

• Stay abreast of current trends and technical advancements