Responsibilities:

• Serves as the highest-level technical expert/leader, consulting project teams on technical design, development and implementation strategies.
  
• Participates in the technical planning to develop implementation strategies.
  
• Serves as the acknowledged expert in multiple technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems.
  
• Responsible for the design approval of new mainframe and/or distributed systems and major enhancements to existing systems.
  
• Understands the business strategy and competitive environment and translates and implements business strategies into technology solutions.
  
• Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements and comply with the IT plan.
  
• Assists Security in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures.
  
• Participates in the development of budget projections and monitors budget submissions to assist management in meeting department financial goals.

Skills Required:

• Interface Development (IDOCS, BAPI, BADI, Web Services, SAP PI)
  
• SAP Claims Management and SAP CD (Collections & Disbursements)
  
• SAP Data Dictionary
  
• ABAP Workbench
  Extensive experience with SAP Design and Development
  Business processes and/or products/mission critical application systems/mission critical application systems under development/key strategic technology area
  Technology and design standards
  Systems operation practices
  Security and control procedures
  Excellent presentation, persuasion, written and interpersonal skills to include procedures and technical material, report/proposal preparation and oral presentation

Experience required:

• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving complex business problems
  
• Designing, developing, implementing and/or supporting the most complex mainframe and/or distributed information systems
  
• Architecting or integrating new complex mainframe and/or distributed information systems
  
• Defining technical and functional requirements for complex applications
  
• Structured systems analysis, design, programming and testing
  
• Evaluating and installing purchased vendor application packages
  
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to project teams, specifically in the areas of design and integration with existing applications
  
• Software reengineering tools and techniques
  
• Enterprise application architecture
  
• Developing/writing design specifications and technical architecture solutions from business requirements
  
• Large scale projects
  
• Complex application design
  
• Database design
  
• Complex systems integration
  
• Troubleshooting and resolving problems of high complexity in a test or production environment
  
• Database management systems (e.g., Oracle, IMS DB, DB2, SQL Server)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration or related technology certification
  
• College coursework in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Business Administration or related technology coursework