Senior SAP Consultant

Integrations Senior Consultant
Experience Band: 8+ years
Reporting To: Integration Lead
Location: Offshore
Shift Timing:12:00 PM – 8:00 PM IST (Tentative)
Engagement Basis: Time & Material (T&M) basis
Commitment: Minimum 1 Year commitment towards the engagement
Role Purpose
We are seeking an experienced SAP S/4HANA Integrations Senior Consultant with a strong background in the retail industry to support an SAP S/4HANA store rollout. The consultant will play a critical role in designing, building and deploying interfaces that connect S/4HANA with store, e-commerce, logistics and banking systems, with a focus on retail-specific requirements, interface specification reviews, and end-to-end integration oversight.
The ideal candidate will have expertise in SAP Integration Suite, SAP PI/PO and API-based integration, retail interface patterns such as POS, payments and warehouse messaging, and the integration of retail business streams with SAP systems.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Interface Specification Review
Collaborate with retail business and IT stakeholders to gather and document integration requirements specific to store operations.
Review and validate interface design specifications, ensuring alignment with the integration architecture, retail best practices and SAP standards.
Provide recommendations on interface patterns, message volumes, error handling and reprocessing for high-frequency retail scenarios.
Integration Oversight
Design, build and support interfaces between S/4HANA and retail-specific systems such as POS, SAP CAR, SAP IS-Retail, EWM, e-commerce platforms, payment providers and banks.
Manage end-to-end message flow between point-of-sale systems, inventory management, third-party logistics and financial reporting.
Validate test scenarios, interface and end-to-end integration tests, and UAT results across all connected retail systems.
Integration Monitoring and Compliance
Define monitoring, alerting and error-handling standards for retail interfaces, ensuring compliance with client security, audit and data protection requirements.
Design resilient, automated interface processing for high-volume retail transactions across many store locations.
Coordinate connectivity, certificates and onboarding with third-party providers including payment gateways, logistics partners and banks.
Project Management Support
Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for integration throughout the rollout lifecycle, from design through store go-live and hypercare.
Identify risks and propose mitigation strategies for integration-specific challenges, such as peak message volumes, network dependencies and store connectivity.
Ensure alignment of rollout milestones related to interface readiness, connectivity testing and cutover.
Stakeholder Collaboration
Act as the primary contact for integration topics in the retail stream, collaborating with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, functional leads, SAP consultants, and external vendors.
Conduct design workshops and handover sessions for support teams to enable ongoing interface operations.
Functional / Technical Competencies
Education
Bachelor’s/master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
Minimum 8+ years of experience in SAP integration (PI/PO, Integration Suite) with at least 2 full-cycle SAP S/4HANA implementations or rollouts.
Proven expertise in retail integration scenarios, including POS sales upload, inventory and replenishment messaging, payment and settlement interfaces and multi-location store connectivity.
Strong background in interface development and support: IDoc, OData, REST/SOAP APIs, flat file and event-based messaging.
Hands-on experience in SAP S/4HANA store rollout and multi-site deployment projects.
Technical Skills
Hands-on skills in SAP Integration Suite / Cloud Integration, SAP PI/PO, API Management, and interface monitoring tools.
Experience with retail-specific SAP components (e.g., SAP CAR, POS DM, IS-Retail, EWM).
Proficiency in interface specification documentation, mapping design and error-handling frameworks.
Familiarity with SAP BTP services, event mesh and S/4HANA retail innovations.
Soft Skills
Strong communication skills for engaging with cross-functional technical and business teams.
Analytical mindset to identify gaps and propose tailored solutions.
Ability to manage high-pressure environments with fixed store opening deadlines.
Preferred Qualifications
SAP Integration Suite or SAP PI/PO Certification.
Experience with large-scale retail SAP projects involving multi-location, multi-country and multi-currency operations.
Familiarity with Agile or hybrid project methodologies.

Work arrangement
Yes