Role: Senior Consultant SAP CPI
Experience: 6 to 8 Years
Location: India (Delhi/ Hyderabad/ Mumbai/ Noida/ Pune)
Shift: UK Shift
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- Strong hands-on experience with SAP CPI / Integration Suite
- Deep understanding of:
- SAP S/4HANA integration patterns
- APIs, IDocs, OData, SOAP, REST
- Advanced skills in:
- Groovy scripting
- XML, JSON, XSD
- XSLT
- Experience working on SAP BTP
Media / Enterprise Environment Experience (Highly Desirable)
- Experience supporting high-availability, business-critical environments
- Understanding of tight operational windows (payroll, publishing, finance close)
- Experience working in regulated, audit-driven enterprises
Nice to Have
- Experience with AIF
- Exposure to Event Mesh
- SAP CPI / Integration Suite certification
- Experience in large S/4HANA transformation programs
- Familiarity with ServiceNow and ITIL processes
Soft Skills
- Calm and structured under pressure
- Strong ownership mindset for business-critical integrations
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Proactive, detail-oriented, and solution-focused
Key Responsibilities
Integration Design & Delivery
- Design, build, and deploy enterprise-grade integrations using SAP CPI / Integration Suite
- Develop robust iFlows using adapters including:
- OData
- SOAP
- REST
- IDoc
- SFTP
- AS2
- Implement message mappings using:
- Graphical mapping
- XSLT
- Groovy scripting
SAP & Business-Critical Integrations
- Integrate S/4HANA including:
- SAP Ariba (procurement & suppliers)
- SAP SuccessFactors & Fieldglass (HR, payroll inputs, contractors)
- Legacy ECC and third-party systems
- Support hybrid integration scenarios (cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-prem)
- Ensure accurate and timely data flows supporting:
- Finance close cycles
- Payroll runs
- Supplier payments
- Regulatory reporting
Hypercare, AMS & Incident Management
- Provide Hypercare support post-go-live, ensuring rapid issue resolution
- Monitor integrations using CPI monitoring tools and alerts
- Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes
- Support BAU AMS operations including:
- Incident, problem, and change management
- On-call or critical incident support (where required)
- Work closely with ServiceNow for incident tracking and SLA adherence
Security, Stability & Compliance
- Configure and manage:
- Certificates and keystores
- OAuth, client certificates, basic authentication
- Implement error handling, retries, and resilience mechanisms to minimize business impact
Governance, Documentation & Standards
- Maintain high-quality:
- Integration design documents
- Interface specifications
- Support runbooks
- Follow agreed naming conventions, transport strategies, and documentation standards
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and automation
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with:
- Functional teams (Finance, HR, Procurement)
- SAP Basis & Security
- SAP Architects and SI partners
- Participate in design workshops and technical reviews
- Support KT sessions and mentoring of junior consultants
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
