Sr SAP Applications Developer - Kimball International, Jasper, IN

Kimball International - Jasper, IN

Full-time - Mid Level

Jasper, IN

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Senior Applications Developer - SAP at Kimball International is responsible for systems architecture, application development, systems support, and mentoring. This role involves collaborating with various business units to enhance technologies and ensure alignment with the company's strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Participate in writing business cases, cost justification and functional specifications.
• Create, review, and maintain conceptual designs.
• Create and maintain technical specifications for complex application, integration, or infrastructure solutions.
• Mentor Developers on best practices used for development.
• Perform design reviews on completed projects.
• Research and prototype applications and technologies which align with the goals and objectives of the business.
• Participate in requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, testing and support of processes and technology that are simple, standard and support the vision and goals of Kimball International.
• Participate in the construction of development standards and the adherence to those standards that will be used throughout the implementation and support process.
• Collaborate with the Kimball Business Units to support and enhance technologies such as ERP, EDI, business intelligence, systems integrations, mobile and web applications.
• Collaborate with Senior Applications Developers on creating and documenting the technical design.
• Promote strategy to reduce costs through standardization and automation.
• Promote the use of standard application functionality.
• Stay current with technology trends and best practices.
• Identify methods to use Information Technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness within Kimball International.
• Ensure that effective communication is applied at all times to all parties for project status, support issues and general questions.
• Monitor support tickets for high priority issues and work with manager to disposition.
• Build and maintain business relationships to ensure proper alignment to our business strategy.
• Develop, execute, and maintain documentation for processes and projects.
• Support Vision and Guiding Principles of Kimball International and the goals of the Business Units.

Requirements

• High integrity and ethical behavior
• Detail oriented, a self-starter, and enjoys working in a team environment
• Excellent listening skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication with all levels in the organization
• Ability to articulate technical issues and solutions to non-technical people
• Multiple programming skills such as SAP ABAP and Microsoft ASP.Net
• Database development skills such as Microsoft SQL Server
• Integration applications such as BizTalk
• Business Intelligence skills such as Microsoft PowerBI
• Web based services
• Migration planning
• Technology management utilities
• Security
• Mobile applications and devices

Nice-to-haves

• Coaching and mentoring of people when needed
• Passion for the job and the company
• Vision - have a clear and compelling view for how technology can help the business meet its goals and objectives
• Leading change - help inspire people in the IT organization to change
• Clarity of focus - understands business objectives and helps develop roadmaps to deliver on those objectives
• Basic understanding of the business structure and goals for the furniture group and its business units