SDM Apps Development lead

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SDM Apps Development lead

Fluor & Energy Materials , an Orbia business, is looking for a SDM Apps Development lead to be based at México, Colombia or Brazil !

Job Summary / Purpose

Our team, the Service Delivery Management for Global Applications, is responsible to ensure operational continuity of Orbia’s Global Business Applications like SAP ECC, S / 4, CFIN, SuccessFactors and others. The support of these applications is under a Managed Service partner, and our role is to supervise and ensure that this service is delivered to Orbia’s standards of quality and following our processes and policies. This role will have a specific responsibility over initiatives that require Developments in those applications, by supporting and monitoring the service of the AMS (Application Managed Support) partners, defining and enforcing best practices and security standards, and providing operational support when needed (e.g. in case of escalations, issues with in-house developed apps or legacy apps).

Main Responsibilities

• Creation of best practices and operational processes related to Application Development in SAP ECC and S / 4 (ABAP, BTP, Fiori).
• On a general note and not restricted to Development initiatives : Being a point of contact for Orbia’s companies located in LATAM, guiding them through our Service Delivery Model when needed and ensuring that they get the right support on time.
• Provide operational support (in collaboration with the AMS partner) to application / integrations developed in-house or other developments in Legacy Applications when needed. Provide ideas to the Application Solution leads for those Legacy apps / integrations to be included the target architecture roadmap. Support their transition to target architecture when needed (e.g. from a local application to S / 4 BTP portals or apps).
• Ensure that developments or customizations in the S / 4 applications are done following the Digital Decoupling strategy as defined by the Orbia Global Applications team.
• Support and drive automation initiatives where possible, with a final goal of incident reduction and self-service (e.g. self-healing, monitoring and alert systems, automation of standard requests, etc.).
• Drive and encourage new ways of working in collaboration with the AMS partner, for example Devops or Scrum.
• Participation in the major incident process when needed, for Americas’ applications / time zones.
• Participation in CAB or coordination with IT Service Desk meetings when needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge / Experience Required

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