Senior Technical Consultant, SAP Ariba

Ready to help procurement leaders unlock value at every stage of their transformation? At Optis, you'll deliver high end procurement advisory and precision implementation to clients across the US and Canada, and see the results of your work in every engagement. We are growing at Optis! We are looking for a Senior Technical Consultant (SAP Ariba) to join our Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, or Montreal teams. Working closely with the Project Manager, you will serve as the first point of contact between technical clients integrating our partners' solutions (ZIP, SAP Ariba, or Coupa) with their ERP and/or other internal and 3rd party systems. You will be responsible for developing technology solutions and mapping Optis customers' business requirements to systems/technical requirements to ensure they are in line with the enterprise architectural plan. As a Technical Consultant, you will provide input to the strategic direction of technology investments to assist Optis customers in the development of the enterprise architecture and maximize their return on technology investment. We need our Technical Consultants to be confident, versatile and passionate, with an ability to tackle new problems as we continue to help our customers to improve. They must be logical thinkers, have a strong ability to collaborate as part of a team and manage ambiguous or uncertain situations. They must have exceptional communication skills, be adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership. RESPONSIBILITIES Develop solutions for clients using service-oriented architecture patterns. Manage and implement an API-led strategy to connect data and applications with APIs. Define and gather requirements and conduct design sessions for technical solutions. Own the complete lifecycle of delivery, including architecture, design, development, test, and documentation of integration, custom development, and data migration solutions for business applications in SaaS and other ERP systems. Define and document integration architecture, capture and document non-functional (architectural) requirements, prepare estimates, and define technical solutions. Estimate the tasks and resources required to design, build, and test the code. Develop new code or enhance existing code for solution development. Maintain a sharp focus on system reliability and ensure the overall solution architecture can gracefully handle upstream and downstream system failures. Provide in-depth expertise in the discipline of integration architecture, data sources, security, technical design, programming, testing, and deployment. REQUIREMENTS Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent preferred. Intermediate skills in developing integrations with Web Services, XML, JSON, SQL and/or other integration technologies are mandatory. Experience facilitating application integration architecture discussions and workshops. Proven experience developing integrations using REST API, SOAP Web Services and other integration architectures. Experience with SAP Ariba is highly preferred or ZIP, Coupa, and/or Ivalua Procurement solutions. Experience with SAP Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Integration Suite (CPI/HCI), SAP PI/PO, or the Ariba Integration Toolkit (ITK) preferred. Additional experience using other ETL tools is preferred. 3+ years of experience in an Integration Architect or Lead Technical Architect capacity in an Agile/Hybrid development environment for transformational Source-to-Pay programs or equivalent. Proven skills as a team member, team lead or project manager on at least three full lifecycle implementations. Functional knowledge of Procurement business processes is preferred. Technical aptitude and comfort in understanding web-based applications, SaaS, PaaS and IaaS cloud models, and integration concepts, as well as the application of these technologies in the enterprise environment. Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous …

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