SAP Technical BA

Next Ventures; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Ventures is seeking a Tech BA for the Output Management squad to own SAP-driven document processes in a multi-site setup (Munich, Frankfurt, Essen). The role focuses on upstream/downstream SAP user stories near amplification by the Quadient Inspire platform.

The ideal candidate will bridge business requirements with technical delivery, ensuring accurate data contracts, interface specifications, and end-to-end test design across multi-channel dispatch, including print, email, and customer

Qualifications

• Experience with SAP correspondence tools and trigger mechanisms.
• Proficient in data mapping between SAP and rendering engines.
• Experience in engineering functional requirements with multi-channel routing.
• Hands-on SAP navigation and data checks.
• Design of end-to-end tests including PIT and BPT.
• Ability to translate business needs to technical specs and manage interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize user stories by refinement status.
• Interface SAP with web services and Inspire, considering firewall rules.
• Understand bounce email management and data structures.
• Collaborate with teams in India.
• Define and verify SAP triggers and payloads in testing.
• Act as functional translator between business squads and engineering.

Skills

SAP correspondence and trigger systems

Source-to-target data mapping

Functional requirements engineering

Hands-on SAP navigation and dataChecks

E2E test design and data

Interface and dependency management

Tools

SAP

Quadient Inspire

ABAP basics

Job description

Tech BA, Output Management

Project language: German

On-site: Munich, Frankfurt or Essen, up to 3 days every 3 weeks

Start: ASAP

About the Output Management squad

The squad owns the end-to-end output process. That covers mass correspondence built on SAP application forms, document rendering, and print processes out of SAP S/4HANA. SAP CE and CPQ connect to the Quadient Inspire platform through interfaces, and harmonised data streams feed the generation of individual correspondence, tariff sheets, orders and similar documents.

The squad also owns archiving in nScale, so documents are stored efficiently and, in an audit,-proof way, then made available to customers and agents.

Scope note:

This role does not work on Inspire or nScale user stories. It works on the SAP user stories that sit upstream or downstream of them.

Core requirements

• Prioritising user stories by refinement status
• Experience with interfaces between SAP, web services and Inspire, including firewall considerations
• Understanding of bounce email management: rule sets, data structures, audit
• Ideally, experience working with teams in India

Priority 1 skills

1. SAP correspondence and trigger mechanisms

• How SAP triggers correspondence: event-driven (ad hoc, single) versus mass batch runs such as billing, invoicing and dunning via FPCOPARA
• Working knowledge of the SAP Correspondence Tool, Correspondence Container and Print Workbench (application forms, form classes)

2. Source-to-target data mapping (SAP CCM payload)

• Identifying which SAP tables and fields hold the required data: Business Partner, Contract Account, Contract, Meter Reading, document line items
• Writing clear data contracts for what SAP passes to the rendering engine (e.g. Quadient Inspire): XML/JSON payload definitions, field types, cardinalities, fallbacks and transformation logic

3. Functional requirements engineering

• Implementation-ready specs covering trigger events, data extraction rules, conditional logic (e.g. “if customer type = B2B and country = DE, render text block X”) and fallback rules for missing data
• Multi-channel dispatch routing: print shop via spool/OMS, transactional email, customer portal

4. Hands-on SAP navigation and data checks

• Navigating SAP GUI independently: SE16N/SE11 for tables, FPL9 for account balance and correspondence history, SP01/SM37 for spool and job monitoring
• Confirming whether a trigger fired and inspecting the raw payload in SAP without calling in a developer for basic checks

5. E2E test design and test data

• Defining and running Product Increment Tests (PIT) and Business Process Tests (BPT): happy path, edge cases (special characters, long names, negative balances) and error scenarios
• Finding or staging valid test accounts and contracts in lower SAP tiers (DV1, FV1, QV1) that reflect real customer constellations

6. Interface and dependency management

• Acting as functional translator between upstream business squads (Billing, Sales, Service), SAP ABAP/integration engineers and downstream document designers (CCM/Inspire team)

Nice to have

1. ABAP basics: reading simple ABAP and stepping through the debugger to find where an extraction or rule fails
2. Quadient Inspire: familiarity with Designer/Interactive concepts (variables, layout blocks, rules) to understand template constraints and effort estimates
3. Archiving and post-processing: SAP ArchiveLink, document indexing, enterprise archiving (nScale, OpenText); downstream print management (OMS, spool formatting, postal optimisation and sorting tools such as Columbus or Paragon)
4. Compliance and accessibility: PDF/UA, BITV, and GDPR (DSGVO) retention and redaction requirements
5. Payload analysis: XPath, JSONPath or SQL for inspecting large correspondence batches or test datasets