Senior Technology Consultant

Requisition ID : 430327

Work Area : Consulting and Professional Services

Expected Travel : 0%

Career Status : Professional

Employment Type : Regular Full Time

Career Level : T3-2

Original Posting Date : 06 / 30 / 2025

Job Title : Senior Technology Consultant

Location : Palo Alto, CA

Work Model : Full Remote

Purpose and Objective :

Ariba, Inc. seeks a Senior Technology Consultant at our Palo Alto, CA location to support the technical workstream and the coordination of technical stakeholders in an engagement.

Expectations and Tasks :

Explains complex technical aspects to stakeholders, including non-technical audiences. Supports coordination of delivery activities with technology partners. Plans and executes solution deployments. Leverages the capabilities of the SAP's latest technology platform(s) and reinforces their benefits. Supports the transformation towards the Intelligent Enterprise. Implements and supports the operation of technical system landscapes. Supports setup and connectivity of integrated system landscapes (on-premise, cloud and hybrid) by applying state-of-the-art methodologies. Delivers technology components-specific expert consulting. Delivers system optimization services. Supports solution proposals and bid management. Supports escalated projects. Occasionally takes over responsibility as a (sub-)project lead or team lead for a service delivery. Supports line manager(s) in people development tasks. Delivers customer workshops and trainings. Creates project documentation and documentation of delivered services. Supports the evolution of the relevant section of the services portfolio for the respective solution area and key related areas; can be owner of a service and / or supports updates to the portfolio. Supports in solution testing and issue resolution. Can mentor technology consultants. Develop understanding of customer-specific processes, configuration, landscape, pain points; provide guidance to internal support team. Responsible for assessing functional / technical issues and developing system solutions for the deployment and the ongoing post-deployment support of Ariba cloud (OnD) based products and solutions. Collaborate with SAP Ariba professionals to deploy a holistic analysis approach to complex and cross-component system platform issues. Master and use available means for customizing Ariba application and develop a solution meeting customer functional / technical requirement.

Education and Occupational Experience :

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications / Skills and Competencies Experience :

Experience must involve four (4) years in the following :

Implementing full life-cycle of SAP Ariba solutions using SAP ACTIVATE methodology;

Product demos, Requirements, Design workshops, Core template design, Build & Integration, Testing and Training, Deployment, Data migration and Hypercare;

Working in a Global delivery model formulating global template and performing multiple rollouts;

Handling Project management, Team Management, Customer / Stakeholders Management;

Leading pre-sales activities such as responding to RFPs, solution demos and client orals; and

Collaborating with cross functional teams such as Business, IT, ERP, middleware, vendors etc.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the .

Internal use only : reference code lhrs4262

SAP : SAIL

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