Kone—SAP Integrations Analyst

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Description: Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes , Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  KONE’s vision is to create the Best People Flow experience by providing ease, effectiveness and experience to our customers and users. In line with our strategy, Sustainable Success with Customers, we will focus on increasing the value we create for customers with new intelligent solutions and embed sustainability even deeper across all of our operations. By closer collaboration with customers and partners, KONE will increase the speed of bringing new services and solutions to the market. KONE Technology and Innovation Unit (KTI) is where we combine the physical world – escalators and elevators – with smart and connected digital systems. We are changing and improving the way billions of people move within buildings every day. We are on a mission to expand and develop new digital solutions that are based on emerging technologies. KONE IT is a global team of expert professionals working along with business functions and area teams to develop new capabilities and enable new business opportunities. We are trusted partners of KONE business lines and functions to develop, transform, manage and run their information technology solutions. We support KONE in its digital transformation journey by introducing e.g. digital cloud-based IT services, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to support productivity, business growth and technological disruption. Sustainability, curious mindset and innovation are at the core of everything w.e do, and this makes us an integral part of KONE’s success. IT professionals - KONE Corporation SAP Integration Analyst with 4 to 8 years of experience is responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade integrations across SAP and non-SAP systems. This role ensures seamless data movement, real-time and batch processing, and scalable integration architecture across platforms including SAP BTP Integration Suite (IS), SAP Process Orchestration (PO), SAP SLT, and SAP Data Intelligence (DI). The role focuses on delivering resilient, high-performance integrations while supporting transformation initiatives such as migration from SAP PO to BTP IS. It ensures integration solutions are aligned with enterprise architecture, data strategy, and business continuity requirements. Working closely with Product Owners, functional teams, data engineers, and external system owners, this role drives integration excellence, proactive monitoring, and continuous optimization of the integration landscape. Job Description SAP Integration Design & Ownership - Own end-to-end design and implementation of integrations across SAP and non-SAP systems using: - SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI, API Management) - SAP Process Orchestration (PO/PI) - SAP SLT (real-time replication) - SAP Data Intelligence (data pipelines and orchestration) - Design and maintain interfaces involving IDocs, Apis, BAPIs SFTP/FTP, Kafka/MSK, and HTTP-based integrations - Ensure integration solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise integration patterns - Support hybrid integration scenarios across on-prem (ECC/S4) and cloud platforms Integration Architecture, Standards & Compliance - Ensure adherence to enterprise integration architecture principles and SAP best practices - Drive standardization of integration patterns across PO and BTP IS - Govern usage of custom mappings, scripts, and adapters to minimize complexity - Ensure compliance with: Security standards (authentication, encryption, certificates) - Data governance and audit requirements - Align integration roadmap with SAP BTP strategy and PO decommissioning goals Data Replication & Pipeline Management (SLT & DI) - Design and manage real-time data replication using SAP SLT for key business objects - Build and optimize data pipelines using SAP Data Intelligence: o Data ingestion from SAP and external sources o Transformation and orchestration workflows - Ensure data consistency, latency optimization, and high availability of pipelines - Troubleshoot replication issues, performance bottlenecks, and data mismatches. Optimization & Technical Debt Management - Drive migration from SAP PO to BTP Integration Suite with optimized design patterns - Promote reuse of standard iFlows, APIs, and integration components - Reduce reliance on custom developments and legacy patterns - Identify technical debt in existing integrations and lead remediation efforts. - - Improve performance through: - Parallelization strategies - Payload optimization (compression, chunking) - Efficient error handling mechanisms Operational Support & Incident Management - work on critical integration failures in production - support root cause analysis for: o Failed messages (IDoc, CPI, PO) - SLT replication issues - DI pipeline failures - Ensure quick recovery and minimal business disruption - Implement proactive monitoring and alerting mechanisms Documentation & Governance - Maintain comprehensive integration documentation: o Interface design documents o Mapping specifications o Data flow diagrams - Ensure adherence to: Transport management processes - Change control and release governance - Validate testing coverage including SIT, regression, and performance testing Collaboration & Ways of Working - Work closely with cross-functional teams (SAP functional, data, middleware, external vendors) - Enable agile delivery model across integration design, build, and run phases - Support DevOps practices: o CI/CD for integration artifacts o Automated deployments and monitoring - Provide technical mentoring and guidance to junior integration team members Role Context - Focused on enterprise integration landscape covering SAP ECC/S4, BTP, and external ecosystems - Key contributor in PO to BTP IS migration program and data platform evolution - Works across real-time, batch, and event-driven integration patterns - Critical role in ensuring business continuity, scalability, and future-ready integration architecture At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life. Read more on https://kone.com/global/en/careers.html