Brazil
Orange Business
Bunge
IT Technology Specialist (SAP ABAP)
Brazil
Gaspar, Santa Catarina, Brazil
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About the opportunity
Do you know Bunge?
Since 02/07/2025, Bunge and Viterra have combined to become one company. Our approximately 37.000 employees — who are the driving force behind our success — are dedicated to a single goal: connecting farmers to consumers to supply the world with essential food, animal nutrition ingredients, and fuels. As a newly combined company, we are guided by our shared values in everything we do:
- We are one team
- We lead the way
- We do what is right
We are passionate, bold, and determined. Together, we lead the creation of value for our customers, for ourselves, and for the world. As we work to integrate our employment opportunities, candidates are encouraged to explore vacancies posted on behalf of Bunge and Viterra.
Position Mission
Responsible for the development, maintenance, and evolution of SAP ABAP solutions, acting strategically and consultatively on complex projects and demands, ensuring technical quality, adherence to corporate standards, stability of SAP environments, and support for the company's development governance.
Will act as a senior technical reference within the SAP ecosystem, supporting the definition of best practices, solution review, technical guidance for vendors, and knowledge dissemination about processes, custom objects, and existing architecture in the company's SAP environment.
At Bunge, our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to supply the world with essential food, animal nutrition ingredients, and fuel. As a leading provider of agribusiness solutions, our team of approximately 37.000 dedicated employees partners with farmers around the world to move agricultural commodities from where they are produced to where they are needed—faster, smarter, and more efficiently. We are a world-leading company in origination, storage, distribution, as well as processing and refining of oilseeds, offering a broad portfolio of vegetable oils, fats, and proteins. We work side-by-side with our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop innovative, customized solutions that meet the ever-evolving needs of consumers. With over 200 years of experience and a presence in more than 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, promoting sustainability, and contributing to the prosperity of the communities where we operate. Bunge is registered in Geneva, Switzerland, and its corporate headquarters are located in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Learn more at bunge.com.br.
Daily, our professionals embody the values that are the essence of Bunge:
- WE ARE ONE TEAM – Collaborative, respectful, and
- inclusive• WE LEAD THE WAY – We are agile, empowered, and innovative
- WE DO WHAT IS RIGHT – Safely, sustainably, and with integrity
We recognize that our success depends on the variety of perspectives that each of our employees brings to Bunge. We are committed to promoting practices to nurture a culture of belonging for everyone. Globally, we support the Women's Empowerment Principles of UN Women. In Brazil, we are associated with Mover - Movement for Racial Equity, and we were elected by the global tool Disability Index Report® as one of the best places to work regarding the inclusion of people with disabilities. We continuously work towards our commitment to leave a positive legacy in all communities where we operate.
If you identify with these values, join us! We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and live it with enthusiasm every day – people who have #OrgulhodeSerBunge
Activities and Responsibilities
- Development of ABAP solutions according to functional specification requirements.
- Complex ABAP programming, testing, and debugging of code in SAP.
- Involvement in project work for various SAP modules.
- Close communication with architects, analysts, and other IT teams to understand functional requirements.
- Development and implementation of changes/improvements using ABAP technology.
- Provision of technical information for projects delivering SAP to support initial project planning and estimation processes.
- Act as a senior technical reference in SAP ABAP development, supporting strategic projects, advanced troubleshooting, and technological modernization initiatives.
- Ensure adherence to development standards, quality, performance, security, and governance defined by the company.
- Conduct technical code reviews and support internal developers and external partners in defining SAP development best practices.
- Participate in defining technical architectures and complex solutions involving SAP integrations, performance improvements, critical customizations, and evolution of the company's SAP landscape.
- Act in the analysis of technical and functional impacts related to custom objects, integrations, enhancements, and existing solutions in the corporate SAP environment.
- Promote continuous improvement in development processes, technical documentation, versioning, testing, and delivery quality.
- Contribute to the maintenance and technological evolution of the SAP environment, including initiatives related to SAP S/4HANA, integrations, Fiori, RAP, CAP, and new SAP technologies.
- Support the technical governance of SAP developments, ensuring reuse, standardization, and compliance with corporate guidelines.
- Act as a holder and disseminator of technical knowledge about the company's existing custom developments and SAP architecture.
- Contribute to the technical training of the team, supporting less experienced professionals and sharing technical and functional knowledge.
Impact/Scope
Operation in a highly critical corporate SAP environment for Bunge South America's operations, supporting essential back-office processes and the company's business operations.
- Responsible for technically supporting solutions used by multiple corporate and operational areas in the region, ensuring stability, quality, and continuity of business processes.
- Participation in strategic projects for digital transformation, SAP modernization, and technological evolution of the corporate landscape.
- Direct influence on the technical quality, governance, and sustainability of the organization's custom SAP developments.
- Operation in an integrated and complex environment involving multiple SAP modules, corporate integrations, legacy systems, and cloud solutions.
- Strategic contribution to reducing operational risks, continuous improvement, and technical standardization of the company's SAP solutions.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Quantity of incidents handled by the factory.
- Quantity of BugFixes.
- Quantity of effort for non-ABAP issues.
- Technical quality of deliveries and reduction of rework.
- Reduction of recurring incidents related to custom developments.
- Adherence to SAP development standards and best practices.
- Resolution time for complex issues and specialized technical support.
- Evolution of technical documentation and governance of SAP objects.
Key Opportunities and Decisions
- Identify truly priority issues.
- Opportunity for development and learning in new technologies (integrations, Fiori, etc.).
- Technical decision-making on complex and business-critical SAP solutions.
- Definition of technical approaches balancing performance, maintenance, scalability, and adherence to corporate standards.
- Involvement in advanced troubleshooting and impact analysis in integrated SAP environments.
- Strategic support for technological modernization initiatives and evolution of the SAP environment.
- Ensure preservation and dissemination of technical knowledge about existing developments in the company.
Management/Leadership
- Strong ability to work independently and manage one's own time, while being a collaborative team member.
- Manage code construction with a technical project, following Bunge development standards.
- Act as a senior technical reference for internal developers and vendors.
- Technical leadership and influence capability without formal direct management.
- Analytical, strategic, and hands-on profile for operating in complex technical scenarios.
Key Relationships, Stakeholders & Interfaces
- IT Team (from managers to peers).
- Solution Architects and Enterprise Architecture.
- SAP functional teams and business areas.
- SAP vendors and development factories.
- Integration, Basis, Security, and Infrastructure Teams.
- Stakeholders of strategic projects and SAP transformation programs.
Minimum requirements
- Advanced knowledge in ABAP, debugging, performance tuning, SAP integrations, and SAP technical architecture.
- Experience with development best practices, technical governance, and software quality.
Languages
English
Education/Experience
Completed Bachelor's degree in: Business Administration, Economics, and related fields.
5 to 10 years of experience as ABAP Developer
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