Principal Specialist, Digital Innovation

1. Be able to capture the business needs and work with customers to deploy innovative integration solutions as a part of the customers’ transformation journey to generate business value and meet the organization functional strategy
2. Be capable to lead the execution of small to midsized projects/initiatives with notable resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
3. Guides others in resolving complex issues in their own specialized area and solves complex problems with implications on cross-functional business processes and outcome
4. Provide the necessary routine monitoring & escalation support and lead root cause analysis & problem management activities with a resolution in a timely manner
5. Be able to design and develop any SAP PI/PO & SAP BTP Integration Suites (CPI) interfaces per business requests on time with great performance and quality under a secured connection
6. May provide inputs to functional or departmental strategy
7. Establish and sustain processes from system, development and operational management
8. Assure all interface development complies with Celanese standard controls and governance

1. Minimum 10+ years of experience in SAP PI/PO full cycle implementation & integration and 6+ year in SAP BTP Integration Suites (CPI) implementation & integration 
2. Strong experience with design, development and deployment of high-performance and scalable SAP PI/PO and SAP BTP Integration Suites (CPI) interfaces integrating between On-Premises and Cloud instances of SAP & NSAP Products
3. Experience in message flow troubleshooting approaches on identifying errors and analyzing performance issues - must have good debugging skills towards root cause analysis and error resolutions in various SAP systems
4. Expertise in handling various integration adapters in SAP PI/PO and CPI (like IDOC, RFC, SOAP, File, JDBC, BAPI, oData, SFTP, HTTPS, etc.) and configuring their specific settings
5. Experience in complex data mappings using graphical mapping tools, XSLT, Java scripting and user-defined functions (UDFs)
6. Experience in handling different data conversions like JSON to XML, CSV to XML, etc.
7. Experience in using various SAP PI/PO or CPI pallet options (integration patterns – message transformations, enricher, splitter, etc.) and experience in SAP BTP Experience in handling security artifacts, encryption, and decryption mechanisms and SSH keys
8. Experience in designing and building integration flows within the CPI graphical interface, including data transformation and error handling 
9. Experience in developing value mapping and Groovy scripting used in iFlow
10. Experience in configuring standard iFlows extension and defining custom iFlows, local & exception sub-processes, exception handling
11. Hands-on development experience on SuccessFactors Integrations with SAP CPI
12. Experience in SAP BTP activities such as service key creation, tenant management, destination setup, role provision etc.
13. Experience in SAP BTP API management on creating and managing REST APIs using CPI, including API Proxies and policies
14. Great collaboration with internal teams as well as external partners
15. Good written and verbal communication skills to align across global teams and be able to transfer complex technical scenarios into business language and vice versa
16. Knowledge on SAP PI/PO and SAP BTP system landscapes and know how to identify integration points between different applications 
17. Familiar with other cloud platforms like AWS or Azure
18. Need to be in Office 3 days a week.

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