BTP Integration Expert

Job Description:

The SAP BTP Integration Expert is responsible for the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise integration solutions across SAP and non-SAP landscapes. This role plays a key part in the organization's integration strategy, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient integrations using SAP BTP Integration Suite technologies.

This role works closely with peer Integration Experts and Integration Manager, SAP Solution Owners, other ERP Technical teams, business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and SI partners to deliver integration solutions that are secure, resilient, compliant, performant, and future-ready and meet business requirements adhering to all best practices and organizational standards.

The successful candidate will develop and support integrations using SAP BTP Integration Suite, including Cloud Integration (CI), API Management, Event Mesh, and Open Connectors, while contributing to integration modernization initiatives and supporting the migration of existing SAP PI/PO interfaces to SAP BTP Integration Suite. The role is expected to primarily work independently on assigned deliverables and actively contribute to continuous improvement of the integration platform and development practices, while providing expert guidance to larger Integration teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead technical requirement gathering, solution design, blueprinting, and implementation activities for enterprise integration initiatives.
• Design and develop integration solutions using SAP BTP Integration Suite, including Cloud Integration, API Management, SFTP, and B2B scenarios.
• Develop robust and scalable integration architectures that support business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and integration specifications.
• Ensure all technical developments comply with SAP and organizational development standards, security requirements, and best practices.
• Provide expert guidance to larger Integration team and vendor partner team members.

SAP BTP Integration Suite Development:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Integration Flows (iFlows).
• Configure and utilize SAP adapters including REST, SOAP, OData, IDoc, SuccessFactors, SFTP, JDBC, and other supported adapters.
• Develop integrations involving SAP and non-SAP systems using APIs, files, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
• Build and publish APIs using SAP API Management and implement security policies including OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT, and Client Certificate Authentication.
• Develop both synchronous and asynchronous integration scenarios.

Platform Operations & Support:

• Monitor, maintain, and optimize SAP BTP Integration Suite environments.
• Support existing SAP PI/PO integrations while driving migration to SAP BTP Integration Suite.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and perform root cause analysis for production incidents.
• Ensure platform stability, availability, performance, vulnerability management, keep environment current activities including regular patching and upgrades, and operational excellence.
• Ensure the integration platform is secure, resilient, compliant, performant, and future-ready.
• Provide production support, cutover assistance, hyper-care, and post-go-live activities.

Integration Governance & Architecture:

• Contribute to enterprise integration standards, design principles, and best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and solution assessments.
• Ensure integrations comply with security, audit, compliance, and data governance requirements.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to align integration initiatives with strategic technology roadmaps.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management:

• Act as the primary liaison between integration teams, functional consultants, business stakeholders, and external partners.
• Collaborate closely with Security, Infrastructure, Basis, SAP Functional, and Application Support teams.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with implementation partners and service providers, while driving accountability.
• Support project planning, estimation, risk identification, and delivery governance activities.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement:

• Collaborate constantly with SAP on SAP's integration platform and its roadmap.
• Stay up to date with SAP Integration Suite innovations, releases, and industry best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve integration capabilities.
• Contribute to integration modernization initiatives involving APIs, Event Mesh, cloud-native integration patterns, and automation.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Leadership & Mentoring:

• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for integration initiatives.
• Mentor junior developers and integration consultants across internal and vendor teams.
• Lead critical incident resolutions and provide guidance during high-priority business-impacting situations.
• Promote knowledge sharing and adoption of integration best practices across the organization.

Required Skills & Competencies:

Technical Skills:

• SAP BTP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh, Open Connectors), SAP Cloud Integration (CPI), SAP Process Integration (PI) / Process Orchestration (PO).
• API Design and Management
• REST, SOAP, OData, IDoc, RFC, Proxy Interfaces
• B2B/EDI Integration
• SFTP and File-Based Integration
• SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC Integration
• SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, Salesforce, and other SaaS integrations
• OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT, Certificates, and API Security
• Message Mapping, XSLT, Groovy Scripting, and Integration Patterns
• Event-Driven Architecture and Messaging Technologies
• CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps, and Code Repositories

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience:

• 8+ years of experience in SAP integration technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP BTP Integration Suite (IS) and Cloud Integration (CPI).
• Experience with SAP PI/PO implementation, support, or migration projects.
• Proven experience delivering full lifecycle integration projects, including design, build, testing, deployment, and support.
• Experience integrating SAP and non-SAP enterprise applications including API integration, B2B/EDI integration, and A2A integration scenarios in a large-scale SAP landscape.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders, project managers, and executive leadership.
• Exposure to SAP ECC and S/4HANA integration scenarios.
• Experience supporting global enterprise environments and geographically distributed teams.

Skills

API, BTP, CPI, Groovy, IDOC, Integration Suite, JWT, OAuth, OData, PI/PO, REST, SAML, SAP, SFTP, SOAP