SAP PO CPI Consultant

Introduction

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In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

The SAP PO/CPI Consultant is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining integration solutions using SAP Process Orchestration (PO) and/or SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI). The consultant works closely with business and technical teams to ensure seamless integration between SAP and non-SAP systems, supporting business processes and digital transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design and Development

• Design and implement integration scenarios using SAP Process Orchestration (PI/PO) and SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI).
• Develop interfaces using IDoc, RFC, SOAP, REST, File, SFTP, OData, and JMS adapters.
• Create and configure Integration Flows (iFlows) in CPI for both cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integrations.
• Implement mappings (Graphical, XSLT, Java, Message Mapping) and adapter configurations.
• Ensure proper handling of error monitoring, logging, and reprocessing.

2. Requirement Gathering and Solution Design

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, functional consultants, and architects to gather integration requirements.
• Design end-to-end integration architecture and data flow diagrams.
• Recommend best practices for integration patterns, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Conduct impact analysis and define integration strategies for new and existing systems.

3. Support and Maintenance

• Provide Level 2/3 support for production integration issues in SAP PO/CPI.
• Monitor and troubleshoot interface errors using SAP PO Runtime Workbench, Message Monitor, and CPI monitoring tools.
• Manage incident resolution, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Participate in system upgrades, migrations, and change management activities.

4. Documentation and Testing

• Prepare technical design documents (TDDs), interface catalogs, and operational guides.
• Develop unit tests, integration tests, and regression tests for all integration scenarios.
• Ensure proper documentation of configuration settings, mappings, and flows.

5. Collaboration and Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with SAP Basis, Security, and Functional Teams for deployment and access setup.
• Provide knowledge transfer and training to internal teams.
• Stay up to date with SAP Integration Suite advancements, APIs, and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and performance optimization sessions

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Hands-on experience with SAP Integration Suite, including Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), API Management, and Open Connectors.
• Familiarity with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) components such as Event Mesh and Integration Advisor
• SAP Certified Development Associate - SAP Integration Suite / SAP Process Orchestration (PO).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 6-10 years of experience in SAP PO/PI and/or SAP CPI/Integration Suite.
• Strong knowledge of integration protocols (SOAP, REST, HTTP, SFTP, IDoc, JMS, OData).
• Experience with mapping tools (Graphical, XSLT, Java-based).
• Familiarity with API Management, Cloud Connector, and Security concepts (OAuth2, SSL, Certificates).
• Understanding of SAP modules (SD, MM, FI, CO, HCM, SuccessFactors, Ariba, C4C, S/4HANA) and how they integrate.
• Hands-on experience with transport management, version control, and CPI tenants.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's 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' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll 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's 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're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 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's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Client-provided location(s): Calgary, Canada

Job ID: IBM-68546

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-11-07T18:48:20