Job Description

Introduction
As an Application Package Specialist, you\'ll help clients in the selection, implementation, and production support of application packaged solutions. You\'ll gain in-depth consulting skills, business knowledge, and packaged solution expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into the clients\xe2\x80\x99 business environment. Join us and start your path as a key player to achieve client expected business results and become the expert you want to be.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• IBM Global Business Services (GBS) helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM\'s global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work. IBM\'s state-of-the-art Client Innovation Centre (CIC) opened in Nova Scotia in March 2013 and is the first of its kind in Canada. The Centre weaves together IBM\xe2\x80\x99s business insights and industry-leading software portfolio and is ideally suited for any client that needs flexible access to emerging or niche skills that may not be cost effective to grow internally. In addition, our focus on our team is unparalleled as demonstrated by the following:
• The CIC NS is one of IBM\xe2\x80\x99s highest performing delivery centres worldwide \xe2\x80\x93 for retention, client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM.
• We are very focused on continuous skill development \xe2\x80\x93 staff training is our third largest annual Centre investment. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth.
• Investment in key partnership with universities, government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role in Nova Scotia\xe2\x80\x99s ICT industry, especially in talent development.

Your Role and Responsibilities : As the leading supplier of SAP software solutions to a rapidly growing list of major North American corporations, we are proud of our talented team, our respected reputation, and our outstanding results.
This opportunity is for an individual who has solid experience working with SAP Solution Manager, as a team lead. The successful candidate must have experience in design of the strategy, implementing and then managing an SAP Solution Manager environment.
Responsibilities for the position include:

• Working with a multi-disciplinary team involved in the implementation of the latest release of S/4HANA, utilizing SAP Solution Manager
• Planning for delivery of specific project deliverables within the high level timeline for the project
• Managing or executing specific project deliverables and scope to ensure project schedules & timelines are respected.
• Responsible for overall SAP Solution Manager strategy and implementation timelines
• Articulating proposed solutions in business terms and demonstrate solution effectiveness in meeting business needs.
• Translating the business requirements into comprehensive deliverables and estimate the work effort required to complete them.
• Experience managing the SAP Solution Manager solution for the most current release
• Assessment of business and application requirements
• Communicating in a team environment with clients and colleagues
• Providing support for deployment and sustainment as necessary
• Experience with ChaRM, Test Suite, Activate, Retrofit and CBTA.
• Experience with Focused Build, Focused Run.
• Experience with Technical Monitoring setup and deep troubleshooting skills.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 12+ years experience in projects where responsibility for SAP Solution Manager
• Experienced with the most recent release of SAP Solution Manager
• Experience with all components of SAP Solution Manager (ChaRM, ITSM, Monitoring, Business process repository etc.)
• Minimum 7 years SAP implementation experience - 2 full project lifecycles

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Appropriate SAP Certification
• Strong familiarity with SAP implementation methodologies, especially Activate
• Familiarity of how SAP Solution Manage can be used in Agile projects and/or DevOps (required integrations etc.)

About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM\xe2\x80\x99s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients\xe2\x80\x99 businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.


Your Life @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better. Being an IBMer means you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background. Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer?


About IBM IBM\xe2\x80\x99s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we\xe2\x80\x99re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it\xe2\x80\x99s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.


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