SAP ABAP/Fiori Developer

Experience level: Intermediate
Term: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Team: IS
Location: Northampton
The firm

Shoosmiths is the law firm clients choose for excellent service, incisive thinking and above all for our ability to focus on what matters. From offices across the UK and Brussels, we support some of the world’s most exciting and ambitious businesses; amazing clients making an impact. We empower our people to be their authentic selves and deliver together in supportive teams committed to excellence and innovation. The first top 50 law firm to achieve ‘Platinum Standard’ Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm.

We have an outstanding benefits package to complement our competitive remuneration system. In addition to the competitive salaries, great working environment and high-quality work, we believe that all staff should be rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of the firm through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

To discover more about our benefits, please visit: Benefits Package

The team

We have a small development team in a department of over 60 IT professionals. We support the firm in building resilient and flexible applications to assist their everyday activities.

You will be a true collaborator with demonstratable experience working in a developer role supporting the functional and business analysts to improve the user experience of the SAP system.

Main responsibilities
  • Analyse business requirements, functional specifications, and technical specifications to provide technical solutions and recommendations.
  • Collaborate with functional consultants to understand business processes and provide technical support in areas such as data migration, master data management, and user exits.
  • Work with project managers to estimate effort, plan and execute development tasks, and deliver solutions within the agreed timelines.
  • Provide support during the testing, training, and deployment phases of the project.
  • Conduct code reviews, unit testing, and debugging to ensure high-quality code that is scalable and maintainable.
Skills and qualifications
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience as an SAP ABAP Consultant, with expertise in developing custom programs, reports, interfaces, enhancements and Adobe forms.
  • Strong knowledge of ABAP programming language, ABAP Workbench, ABAP Object oriented development, Web Dynpro, Workflow, and ALV. and debugging techniques.
  • Design and development of SAP Fiori Interfaces and mobile Apps, UI5, UX. Experience in SAP MDK(Mobile Development Kit).
  • Experience with SAP ECC modules such as FI, SD and HR.
  • Working knowledge of XML.
Equal opportunities

Our approach to our people is underpinned by our approach to diversity, inclusion and well-being. Our ambition is to build a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and talents, and a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and has a strong sense of community between colleagues.

This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.