About the position
Job Description
Engage with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and prioritise requirements for the e-Invoicing product.
Translate business needs into technical architecture and detailed design documents aligned with SAP, EAI, Java, Azure and SCP standards.
Design and lead when required in terms of the implementation of integrations across a landscape with 120+ interfaces and partner systems, ensuring robust message formats (IDoc, XML, JSON).
Perform hands-on Java development for integration components and support deployment activities to production.
Map IDocs to XML/JSON and design interface transformations required for banking and partner
communications.
Test automation for integration, end-to-end, and regression testing to ensure reliable releases in future landscape.
Assess current EAI landscape and lead migration planning, evaluating replacement technologies (Kafka, Javabased,
Azure-native) and recommending the most feasible solution.
Implement end-to-end monitoring, observability, and logging (including WIZ and dashboards) to provide realtime
visibility into integrations and business flows.
Incorporate AI capabilities where appropriate to enhance automation, anomaly detection, data validation, or analytics within the integration landscape.
Create and maintain dashboards and reports for technical and business stakeholders to communicate system health, transactions and KPIs.
Define deployment, operational runbooks and collaborate with DevOps to ensure robust CI/CD, release and rollback processes.
Coach and mentor junior integration developers and engineers; drive best practices in design, testing, documentation and partner onboarding.
Minimum Requirements:
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications/Experience:
Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in enterprise integration, middleware, or systems architecture with demonstrable SAP FI, Java and cloud projects.
Proven experience delivering and operating complex integration solutions involving IDocs, XML/JSON interfaces and multiple partner systems.
Essential Skills Requirements:
Proven ability to elicit and translate complex business requirements into technical designs aligned with SAP,
EAI and cloud landscapes.
Strong hands-on experience with Java development, including building, debugging, and deploying enterprise integration applications.
Understand current landscape - EAI to support migration to future landscape.
Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and middleware technologies (EAI), including interface design for high-volume, multi-partner systems.
Solid SAP FI knowledge and experience working with financial processes and integration points.
Hands-on experience with IDocs and mapping IDoc to XML/other formats for bank and partner interfaces.
Proficiency working with XML message formats used in integrations.
Proficiency working with JSON message formats used in integrations.
Practical experience designing and implementing end-to-end monitoring, logging, and observability for distributed systems and interfaces.
Experience with Azure Cloud services (platform services, deployment, and operations) and SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) integrations.
Experience with test automation frameworks and practices for integration, end-to-end and regression testing.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills to work closely with business owners, partner teams and technical teams.
Advantageous Skills Requirements:
Experience with e-Invoicing solutions or accounts payable/receivable processes in large enterprises.
Prior experience within the BMW business context or automotive industry partner ecosystems.
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven/streaming architectures as migration/modernisation options.
Familiarity with SAP integration technologies (PI/PO, CPI, BAPI) and mapping tools.
Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Terraform).
Knowledge of security and compliance requirements for financial messaging and partner interfaces.
Experience creating dashboards and visualisations (WIZ, Azure dashboards, or BI tools) for technical and business KPIs.
Experience with synthetic monitoring, SLOs, alerting runbooks and operational runbooks.
Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning and scaling for large integration landscapes (100+ interfaces).
Desired Skills:
- EAI and cloud landscapes.
- EAI to support
- Solid SAP FI
