Assistant Director / Senior Assistant Director (Application Technical Specialist), ERP

The Digital Transformation, Innovation & Data Division (DTID) is the business transformation office to drive A.STAR towards a digitally enabled and data-driven organisation. DTID is responsible to define the digital vision, formulate digital strategies and develop the digital roadmap to frame and provide directions towards our digitalization efforts. DTID acts as the catalyst in driving digital transformation and is the bridge between business owners and technology supports. As the central office, DTID performs the role as the horizontal integrator to synergise and harmonise digital efforts and drive complex and cross-cutting digital initiatives for A.STAR. Beyond business-technology, the roles of DTID also entails the raising of digitally skilled and creative workforce to empower our workforce to harness digital technology and embrace business transformation. To support digitalization efforts, the office is also responsible to set digital/data policies and put in place governance and standards.

You will be part of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project Team to contribute to the implementation of a large-scale ERP replacement project. As an Application Technical Specialist, you will provide the necessary technical expertise to support the project and work closely with the A.STAR IT team and/or the System Integrator to ensure that the project deliverables are aligned to A.STAR's and the Government's IT Policies. You will be responsible to contribute to the architecture design of the ERP system and work closely with the System Integrator to ensure all third-party apps are properly integrated.

What to Expect

You will work closely with the A.STAR IT Team and/or System Integrator to:

• Support SAP Basis Administration activities such as ID creation and transporting objects to different systems.
• Document SAP processes, procedures, and plans including changes, upgrades, and new services.
• Understand the pain points and requirements of the business stakeholders.
• Install, configure, maintain, migrate or upgrade the SAP systems as required.
• Look into and troubleshoot SAP Basis-related issues.
• Perform regular maintenance and performance tuning for Database and SAP systems.
• Understand the related third-party apps and core ERP system and technical design of the connectors/apis as well as integration requirements to meet business needs.
• Manage service delivery of the ERP system of system which includes integration with existing third-party systems / government applications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 5 year's experience in SAP BASIS/Netweaver/ABAP Application Server monitoring and administration.
• Familiar with SAP ECC and HANA environments.
• Good experience in SAP system configurations, upgrades/installations, performance tuning and migration activities
• Expert in investigating and resolving issues related to system performance.
• Can document SAP processes, procedures, and plans including changes, upgrades, and new services.
• Relevant SAP Certification would be a plus.