IT Platform Analyst - SAP GTS (Global Trade Services)

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and independently drive global SAP GTS and SAP SD implementations and solution delivery initiatives across Agile and DevOps environments.

• Act as SAP GTS and SD SME, providing functional and technical expertise for implementation, enhancement, and support projects with strong exposure to S/4HANA concepts such as Business Partner, Fiori Apps, aATP, Settlement Management, BRF+ Output Management, Embedded Analytics, and FSCM Credit and emerging technology trends.

• Analyze business requirements and design scalable SAP GTS solutions for compliance management, customs processes, and international trade operations.

• Configure and support SAP GTS modules including Compliance Management, Customs Management, Risk Management, SPL Screening, Embargo Checks, and Export Control.

• Collaborate with Business Process Owners (BPOs), Solution Architects, Platform Solution Managers, Product Owners, Project Managers, and key stakeholders to gather business requirements and deliver scalable end-to-end solution designs.

• Support solution/release planning, backlog grooming, estimation, validation, and feature-driven development to ensure high-quality delivery by scrum teams.

• Own and optimize end-to-end solution development processes, ensuring compliance with architecture principles, non-functional requirements, security, reliability, performance, and releasability standards. Identify opportunities to establish monitoring via MaaPs

• Identify and implement AI use cases across Sales and O2C processes to improve productivity and business outcomes.

• Apply Generative AI and AI-assisted delivery approaches during requirement analysis, documentation, testing, and support.

• Conversant with ECC → S/4HANA migration approaches (brownfield/greenfield/landscape transformation), SUM with DMO, SAP Readiness Check, simplification items and S/4 data model changes.

• Drive software quality through validation of test strategies, automation, regression testing, peer reviews, demos, and participation in Agile ceremonies.

• Support deployments, business onboarding, user training, change management, and capability demonstrations while recommending continuous improvements and platform innovations.

• Coordinate with DevOps and Operations teams to support incidents, service requests, change management, crisis handling, and business continuity across global time zones.

• Identify process improvement and Kaizen opportunities, reduce technical debt, and enhance application performance and operational efficiency.

• Ensure compliance, regulatory adherence, platform upgrades, and maintenance of solution guidelines and knowledge repositories aligned with OEM and organizational standards.

• Mentor and coach technical leads, developers, and new team members to strengthen team competency and technical capability development.

Minimum required Education:

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

Minimum required Experience:

• 5-10 years of experience overall

• SAP SD experience of at-least 6 years

• At-least four full end to end implementation experience mandatory

• Expertise in international trade compliance, export/import processes, customs regulations, and global trade operations.

• Exposure to all functional domains in SAP GTS and SD (Order Management, Pricing, Variant configuration, Availability, Cross selling, etc) 

• Integration knowledge of SAP FI, SAP MM and SAP LE

• Integration with Satellite Systems

• Experience in working on 3rd party interfaces and FIORI Apps is recommended 

• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA integration and enterprise application architecture.

Preferred Certification:

• SAP SD and GTS (preference is certified)

• Lean Foundation Certification

Preferred Skills:

• Good communication and presentation skills

• Worked in business/client facing role

• Highly driven, energetic, flexible, resourceful & ability to multitask

• Clarity of thought and vision

• Ability to ideate and bring solutions to the table

• Adherence to timelines, without sacrificing quality of output

• Hands on and detail oriented, with a strong ability to co-ordinate across different Geographies and with different stakeholders

• Ability to manage multiple functions at same point of time

• Cross domain: clearly articulates problem statements to evolve solutions across domains

• Innovation is a creative thinker, develops new concepts and solutions across domains.

• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.

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