IT SAP Technical Developer III (Modern Developer - BTP and AI Focus

Dairy Farmers of America•Kansas City, KS

About The Position

The IT SAP Technical Developer III is a hands-on role responsible for designing, developing, and supporting SAP technical solutions within Dairy Farmers of America’s SAP S/4HANA environment leveraging ABAP, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), clean-core extensibility, integration technologies, and approved AI-enabled capabilities. This position collaborates with functional analysts, business stakeholders, end users, and cross-functional IT teams to translate business and functional requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable SAP technical solutions aligned with DFA development, security, clean-core, governance, and change control standards. The role focuses on designing and evolving modern, extensible, and scalable solutions, including SAP BTP applications and AI-enabled capabilities, to improve business processes, automation, analytics, and decision support.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or related equivalent experience
5+ years of SAP ABAP development experience in an SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environment
Strong experience with ABAP development including reports, enhancements, BADIs, forms, workflows, classes, module pools, and object-oriented programming techniques
Strong experience with integration and interface development, including IDocs, ALE, BAPIs, RFCs, APIs, OData services, and web services
Experience with modern SAP technologies, including SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Build, CDS views, SAP Fiori/UI5, ABAP Development Tools (ADT), SAP HANA, ABAP Cloud concepts, and side-by-side extensibility
Working knowledge of approved AI-enabled development tools and AI solution concepts used to improve development productivity, business processes, automation, analytics, and decision support
Experience supporting ABAP development across SAP modules, including SD, FICO, MM, PP, WM, HCM, and related modules
Strong technical knowledge of SAP architecture, development, and integration concepts
Ability to design and deliver scalable, supportable SAP technical solutions based on business and functional requirements
Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and analytical skills
Effective written and verbal communication skills across business and technical audiences
Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet project and support deadlines
Ability to evaluate emerging SAP and AI technologies and apply them to improve development practices, technical standards, and solution quality
Ability to apply approved AI-enabled tools and AI solution concepts while following validation, governance, security, and quality practices
Strong work ethic with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, share knowledge, and accomplish team goals
Ability to work on-call rotation
Must be able to read, write, and speak English

Nice To Haves

Experience integrating SAP S/4HANA with AI-enabled extensions on SAP BTP preferred
Hands-on experience with SAP development models such as CAP and RAP, including CAP development using Node.js or Java, and familiarity with Python for AI or integration use cases preferred

Responsibilities

Design, develop, document, test, implement, and support SAP technical solutions across SAP S/4HANA modules in collaboration with Shared Applications team members.
Translate functional requirements into technical designs, development estimates, and scalable solutions.
Develop and enhance reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, workflows, classes, CDS views, OData services, Fiori/SAPUI5 applications, and related SAP development components.
Design and develop scalable, cloud-native SAP BTP applications and integrations, including side-by-side extensions and API-based solutions.
Apply clean-core principles by using approved extensibility approaches, released APIs, enhancement techniques, and governance practices that reduce upgrade risk and technical debt.
Leverage approved AI-enabled development tools to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and troubleshooting while adhering to security and quality standards.
Design and deliver SAP solutions that incorporate approved AI capabilities to drive process automation, advanced analytics, and intelligent decision support.
Troubleshoot and resolve application, integration, data, and performance issues in collaboration with business users and shared applications team members.
Evaluate and adopt emerging SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, and AI capabilities to advance solution architecture, development standards, and platform capabilities.
Follow DFA development, governance, security, project management, and change control standards.
The requirements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employee, but are not a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned as needed.