Sr. Application Analyst

Thornton Tomasetti; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 78,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior SAP Application Analyst to design, configure, and upgrade SAP systems, and to mentor junior analysts. You will partner with business teams to implement robust solutions and ensure system reliability.

The role requires extensive SAP experience, strong collaboration, and the ability to lead complex technical efforts within a healthcare environment. On-site in Wisconsin with occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 5+ years of experience developing or configuring technology solutions in an application analyst or project delivery role.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Strong computer skills including internet navigation and email usage; proficient in Microsoft Office.

Responsibilities

• Design and configure low to medium complexity applications and upgrades.
• Lead estimation of enhancement or support requests.
• Mentor junior analysts and liaise with stakeholders to ensure alignment of needs.
• Provide end-user production support and manage issue tracking across teams.
• Develop and maintain system documentation; drive continuous improvement in IT processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Mentoring

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

High School Diploma or GED + 4 years experience

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Solution Manager

SAP Cloud ALM

AWS

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Position Overview

The SAP Senior Application Analyst will work on business systems design and configuration, as well as upgrades and improvements for assigned technology platforms. As a primary support contact for SAP application end-users, the Senior SAP Application Analyst will work to identify issues that arise in the application area as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them. The Senior Application Analyst will perform impact analysis of desired changes, build and test systems changes, and identify areas of improvement associated with platform performance and opportunities to enable business processes and requirements. The Senior Application Analyst will act as a mentor to junior analysts on the team, support questions, and may delegate activities to other analysts.

Essential Duties

• Responsible for business systems design and configuration, and upgrades and improvements for low to medium complexity applications.
• Design and implement solutions to a wide range of difficult problems that are imaginative, thorough, and practical.
• Responsible for independent development and configuration of an assigned application.
• Identify issues that arise in the application area as well as issues that impact other application teams, and work to resolve them.
• Develop new processes and procedures to meet current challenges.
• Create and maintain system documentation.
• Lead the estimation of enhancement or support requests.
• Guide workflow design, configure and test system changes, and analyze technical issues.
• Liaise with business systems stakeholders and software vendor’s implementation staff to ensure alignment of business needs with the delivery of system changes.
• Develop an understanding of operational needs to set the direction for the organization's workflows; proactively identify opportunities to improve business workflow with technology improvements.
• Participate in developing documentation and participate in trainings and work with end users.
• Troubleshoot problems and questions, and provide regular updates on status to key business stakeholders.
• Serve as a subject matter expert of assigned applications.
• Provide end-user production support for issues entered into issue tracking systems.
• Review the status of projects and issues with project leadership.
• Assign or delegate configuration or other activities to other team members.
• Act as delegate for leadership regarding incident or problem resolution.
• Provide mentorship for other peers and take the lead to solve problems, even if outside of normal scope.
• Lead internal process design and documentation to drive continuous improvement for the IT department or team.
• Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are done in a timely, accurate, and efficient manner.
• Ability and willingness to recognize assignments or tasks that need to be completed, to seek out additional assignments or tasks, and to help others.
• Ability to communicate information clearly and concisely with project leadership, subject matter experts, and key stakeholders.
• Ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.
• Ability and willingness to learn new software applications.
• Apply flexibility with respect to changing end-user business needs.
• Apply strong analytical skills, business intuition, and organizational ability.
• Apply strong problem-solving skills.
• Apply excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to operate in a cross-functional and complex matrix environment.
• Ability to be adaptable, open to change, able to work in ambiguous situations, and respond to new information or unexpected circumstances.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Ability to work on a mobile device, tablet, or in front of a computer screen and/or perform typing for approximately 90% of a typical working day.
• Ability and means to travel between local Exact Sciences locations.
• Ability to travel 5% of working time away from work location, may include overnight/weekend travel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field as outlined in the essential duties; or High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5+ years of experience developing or configuring technology solutions, either in an application analyst or project delivery role.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and applyindustry best practices.
• Strong computer skills to include internet navigation and email usage.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience configuring business systems software in a life science, healthcare, or related industry.
• Ability to architect and provide technical support of SAP systems and related environments such as Solution Manager and its functionality, SAP S/4, Transports management, System Copy and refresh, Interfaces.
• Understanding of SAP Security architecture and implementation methods.
• Working experience in S/4 HANA, SAP cloud Solutions, Fiori, and AWS.
• Experience of working in SoX complaint environment.
• Familiarity with continuous monitoring tools such as Solution Manager’s Configuration Validation & System Recommendation or SAP Cloud ALM products.
• CloudALM is a plus.
• 2+ Year of IAS/CIS , Single sign on with SAP and Microsoft Entra and SAP SaaS solutions.
• Ability to provide technical support to resolve basis and security issues, optimizing services and ensuring availability, performance & application security of critical business systems.
• Ability to lead technical project from ideation to completion.
• Experience working in Agile with understanding of ITIL V3.0 or above.

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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