Application Engineer (Business Applications & Integrations)

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Job Purpose and Impact
The Professional, Application developer - Regional Applications role provides hands-on engineering and application ownership for business-critical applications that support business operations across the MEETA region. The application portfolio may include manufacturing and plant, supply chain, commercial, and other business applications. The role configures, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves assigned applications and their integrations with enterprise resource planning, operational, and data platforms. It supports reliable service for regional users and business teams and contributes to regional and global application changes, upgrades, cloud migration, and integration delivery. The role works with business stakeholders, application owners, solution architects, vendors, and technical support teams to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.
This is a temporary replacement role with an expected duration of 2 years. We offer a hybrid working model following the onboarding period.
Key Accountabilities

• APPLICATION OWNERSHIP & LIFECYCLE: Owns day-to-day technical operation of assigned regional business applications. The portfolio may cover manufacturing and plant, supply chain, commercial, and other business functions. Maintains service health and supports business value through incident, request, and problem management; application configuration and release coordination; vendor engagement; lifecycle, version, and retirement planning; and alignment with architecture, security, risk, and resiliency requirements.
• APPLICATION ENGINEERING & CONFIGURATION: Performs hands-on application configuration, maintenance, testing, and controlled deployment of changes. Uses code or scripting where appropriate to troubleshoot, automate, or improve application processes, following sound engineering, change-traceability, testing, and release practices.
• INCIDENT, PROBLEM & USER SUPPORT: Investigates and resolves application and interface issues affecting regional business users; documents causes and corrective actions; and coordinates resolution with local teams, vendors, and technical support teams. Provides hands-on support across countries and business functions, taking account of local operating needs and agreed support arrangements.
• INTEGRATION DESIGN & DELIVERY: Documents requirements, interfaces, data mappings, and dependencies; helps assess current and target-state designs; and supports integration testing and defect resolution. Contributes to integrations between regional business applications, ERP systems such as SAP S/4HANA, manufacturing and supply chain systems, and cloud-based data lake and analytics platforms. Supports API-based, message-based, and file-based data exchange using approved patterns.
• PROJECT & CLOUD DELIVERY: Contributes to regional and global application implementations, upgrades, and modernization, including requirements, solution assessment, integration mapping, testing, and deployment activities. Supports application migration to AWS or other approved hosting environments and related digital-foundation work.
• TESTING, DOCUMENTATION & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Coordinates and executes system, integration, and user-acceptance testing; tracks defects through resolution; maintains application, support, and interface documentation; participates in peer review of code or configuration changes where applicable; and helps automate repeatable testing, deployment, and monitoring. Recommends improvements to reliability, supportability, security, and technical debt.

Qualifications
Minimum qualifications

• 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Hands-on experience supporting, configuring, maintaining, or developing business applications.
• Working knowledge of software engineering practices, including secure coding or configuration, debugging, testing, code or change review, version control or equivalent change traceability, and controlled releases; able to use at least one programming or scripting language for application changes or automation.
• Working knowledge of application integration concepts, including REST APIs, interface troubleshooting, data mapping, and common formats such as XML, JSON, and CSV.
• Strong issue-management, documentation, and collaboration skills; able to coordinate work across business users, technical teams, and vendors.
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience supporting business applications in one or more areas such as manufacturing and plant operations, supply chain, or commercial functions.
• Familiarity with AWS-hosted or hybrid application operations, including environments, monitoring and logs, deployment support, and security and resiliency practices.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII), and integrations with manufacturing, supply chain, or other business systems.
• Basic SQL or equivalent data-query skills; experience integrating business applications with cloud-based data lake or analytics platforms.
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Benefits

• Private healthcare.
• My Benefits platform.
• Lunch card.
• Life insurance.
• Opportunity to join the Employee Pension Program (PPE).
• Working in an international environment.

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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