SAP Java Developer

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Client: Securian Financial

Job Title: SAP Java Developer

Location: NA% remote. Hiring manager prefers resource to work in a hybrid environment (St. Paul MN) which currently means working 810 days in a month at facility and being available for occasional offhour oncall support.

Contract: June 24th 2024 Dec 31 2024. This is a contract only position.

Interview Process: 1 round

• Single panel interview with HM and 23 others. No coding. technical questions about how they would solve a certain problem. HM will be looking for culture fit.

Position Summary:

Securian Financial is running a bestinclass technology portfolio and this role plays an integral part in shaping the firms processes standards best practices and strategies. The right candidate will have strong functional analytical and business process skills be able to maintain positive relationships with business and vendor stakeholders and be responsible for efficient issue resolution and escalation to maintain investment platform functionality.

This role is part of a fastpaced agile team relied upon for delivering technology solutions for Securian Financials FPE

Must have:

• 10 years Full Stack Java App Development
• Financial systems (SAP or similar ERP)
• SQL
• AWS
• See internal notes for details

Nice to haves:

• AWS Certification
• Computer Science Finance and/or Business Degrees
• Customer Focused
• detail oriented
• SAP Certifications
• Understand Batch scheduling auditing & Financial/operational reporting

Requirements:

• Selfmotivated and independent with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility for work.
• Solid creative problemsolving skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to build strong relationships with team members business users stakeholders subject matter experts and vendors to help navigate through problems decisions and related implications.
• Excellent teamwork and interpersonal skills with experience working both independently and in a teamoriented collaborative environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical information and facilitate understanding of system capabilities and limitations to nontechnical users.
• 36 years of experience in financial systems like SAP.
• A software development background focused on product/application configuration and debugging.
• Proficient in one of these or similar: Java Python REST and/or SOAP
• Knowledge of and ability to develop in one of these or similar: AWS ABAP HANA SDI and/or Informatica.
• Strategic thinker analytical and results driven.
• Proficient in agile methods.
• Works with minimal direction flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules handle multiple issues simultaneously and to manage stressful situations.
• Computer Science Finance and/or Business degrees.
• Understands batch scheduling auditing & financial/operational reporting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel.

Job responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Collaborate with Product Owners System Architect and business partners to identify and elicit technology needs and work with the scrum team on identifying solutions.
• Help the Product Owner document the technology needs and acceptance criteria in user story format.
• Be an advocate for quality and testing on the agile team ensuring content is testable.
• Develop and maintain technical and end user oriented documentation of system and business processes.
• Grow and maintain knowledge of products plans business processes and system applications.
• Build and maintain business knowledge and strong relationships with team members business users other Securian teams auditors and vendors to help navigate through problems decisions and related implications.
• Assist with batch process resolution and escalations for the finance ecosystem to include setting up new jobs updating jobs and providing troubleshooting / root cause analysis.