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GDF/AF - Middleware Product Owner - System Integration (EDI, SAP CPI) (M/F/D)
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Objectives 

 

Describe your Product mission here (2 - 3 sentences only) 

BASF’s Business Process Integration (BPI) team provides and supports digital solutions for B2B integrations with external partners through a variety of systems and processes within the BASF’s architectural landscape.  BPI is considered a strategic tool to digitalize processes and enable seamless exchange of data between applications, businesses, customers and partners in real-time. 

 
Describe the objectives of the role here (2 - 3 sentences only) 

In this role, you will lead our global middleware solution development and operation (DevOps) team as a product owner. The team task  - in accordance with business requirements and enterprise architecture - to integrate BASF businesses with external partners, drive efficiencies, and drive BASF’s e-share. You ensure standardized, runnable, supportable, and stable solutions from a technical point of view. 

 

 

Main Tasks / Scope of Work 

 

Consulting tasks 

  • Guides the middleware DevOps team together with the product manager and product architect 

  • Create the Product Roadmap and align it with the organizational and internal Business Partner goals 

  • Tackle with the Product Manager product-related impediments to provide the best possible environment for the team to perform at its best. 

  • Consults the BPI team in technical application questions during the solution design and functional specification phase 

  • Provides effort estimation for realization and contributes to project planning 

  • Creates Technical Design Document supported by the Business 

  • Performs configuration and development in systems (e.g. customizing in SAP and / or KAFKA and SAP HANA DB, or in technology stack e.g. java)  

  • Manage development activities (internal and external resource planning for development) 

  • Supports testing and service transition 

  • Collaborates with support team to identify areas of process implementation issues /continuous improvement 

  • Translates stakeholder requirements into concrete specifications for different Integration technologies, like SAP CPI, Kafka, API-Management, use of technology stack using java  

 

Software engineering tasks: 

  • Focus is software design and software architecture of components and applications. 

  • Independent development, enhancement, and migration of applications / modules / interfaces / tools / communication solutions 

  • Integration and testing of software components within the existing application landscape. 

  • Quality assurance and documentation of software developments. 

 

Job Requirements  

Focus on the minimum requirements to carry out the work –  
you might want to point out “additional plus/nice to have skills” that are not mandatory 

Education 

  • Master's degree in computer science or STEM major with 4-6 years of IT or related field experience OR 

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or STEM major with 6-8 years of IT or related field experience OR 

  • Diploma or comparable training with 6+ years of professional experience in IT/application development 

Work Experience 

  • Minimum 6 years related working experience, thereof 2 years as a digital product owner. 

  • Experiencing Agile way of working or agile implementation approach 

  • Work experience in an international company is a plus 

Technical & Professional Knowledge (mandatory and nice to have) 

Our main requirements: 

  • Experience as a digital Product Owner 

  • Experience with integration tools like SAP CPI, Trading Partner Management, Integration Advisor 

  • Experience in different integration scenarios (orders, invoices, etc.) 

  • Familiar with Azure DevOps (or GitHub or similar) 

  • Experience in operating/supporting systems as 2nd or 3rd level support  
    (root cause analysis and provide solutions for production and development issues). 

  • Message monitoring to ensure solutions are performed as expected 

  • Document test plans and complete unit testing of developed object 

  • Participate in collaboration on break/fixes, enhancements, and projects 

  • Broad overview of integration technologies esp. regarding SAP 

 

Personal traits: 

  • You can demonstrate fluent communication skills in English (spoken and written) 

  • Well-developed sense of teamwork in an international DevOps team with strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication and conflict resolution skills. 

  • Business acumen with focus on business strategy, product management and cost/benefit management 

  • Technical consulting skill with a focus on architecture and standardization 

  • Ambitious, proactive & entrepreneurial character 

  • Highly developed sense of self-responsibility 

  • High customer- and service-orientation 

  • Time flexibility to work across different time zones 

 

Nice to have: 

  • Familiar with EDI, SAP IDOC 

  • Experience in any of the following SAP S/4 modules SD, MM or TM 

  • Familiar with Kafka publish-subscribe principles 

  • Experience in Kafka connectors and integration scenarios on different hyperscalers 

  • Experience in transformation tools like KSQL Streams 

  • Experience in SAP SLT (or other ETL tools) 

  • Experience with API Management, SAP HANA DB 

  • Experiences in AI supported coding and coding of AI agents / AI based communication 

  • Experience in Cloud Big Data technologies and architectures within AZURE or AWS 

  • Experience in Java, Scala, Python, MySQL 

  • Familiar with event-driven microservices 

  • Certifications in agile, SAP, Hyperscalers 

Language Proficiency 

  • Fluent spoken and written English proficiency 

 
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Hyderabad, IND
BASF Digital Solutions Private Limited
Digitalization
Permanent
138804
IT and Digitalization
India
Hybrid