SAP Interfaces (CPI/CIG) Specialist

About the Role

Astek Middle East is seeking an experienced SAP Interfaces (CPI/CIG) Specialist to join our team in Al Jubail, Eastern Region. This full-time position requires a professional with over 10 years of experience to design, develop, configure, monitor, and support enterprise integrations across SAP and non-SAP systems. The role focuses on delivering reliable interfaces in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, troubleshooting complex integration issues, and providing Level 3 (L3) production support.

Role Overview

The successful candidate will possess strong hands-on expertise in SAP Integration Suite / Cloud Integration (CPI) and practical experience with SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG). This position requires a technically strong professional capable of taking ownership of integration delivery, ensuring secure and controlled deployments, and maintaining high standards of operational reliability and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain SAP CPI / Integration Suite integration flows (iFlows), including adapters, routing, message and value mappings, scripting, and reusable integration components.
• Configure and support SAP Ariba CIG integrations with SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC, covering master and transactional data flows, mappings, monitoring, and issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain interfaces using REST, SOAP, OData, IDoc, RFC/BAPI, SFTP/files, events, and other approved integration patterns.
• Translate business and technical requirements into integration architectures, interface specifications, data-flow diagrams, mappings, validation rules, and error-handling procedures.
• Troubleshoot failed messages, connectivity and authentication issues, payload and mapping errors, and backend failures; perform root-cause analysis and controlled message reprocessing.
• Manage integration deployments across development, quality, and production environments, including endpoint configuration, credentials, certificates, version control, testing, and rollback planning.
• Support ServiceNow-to-SAP integrations, including API testing, payload validation, callbacks, response handling, and environment promotion.
• Implement appropriate security controls covering authentication, encryption, certificates, access privileges, secrets, and sensitive data.
• Support industrial and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) integration patterns, including interfaces between operational middleware, SAP CPI, and SAP S/4HANA.
• Maintain interface inventories, monitoring dashboards, alerting, logs, support runbooks, test evidence, and audit-ready documentation.
• Provide L3 production support, participate in releases and hypercare, and transfer technical knowledge to internal teams.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Integration Engineering, or a related field.
• More than 10 years of relevant enterprise integration experience.
• Strong, demonstrable hands-on experience with SAP CPI / Cloud Integration and SAP Integration Suite.
• Practical experience configuring, implementing, and supporting SAP Ariba CIG integrations with SAP S/4HANA and/or ECC.
• Proven experience delivering and supporting SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP interfaces in development, quality, and production environments.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, APIs, REST/SOAP/OData, IDoc, RFC/BAPI, SFTP/files, XML/JSON, and message transformation.
• Experience with Groovy or equivalent scripting, message mapping, connectivity troubleshooting, certificates, OAuth/TLS, and secure endpoint configuration.
• Demonstrated experience in production monitoring, error handling, retries/reprocessing, root-cause analysis, and L3 support.
• Ability to manage controlled releases, testing, deployment evidence, rollback procedures, and technical documentation.
• Strong communication, analytical problem-solving, ownership, and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Professional English communication and documentation skills.
• Willingness to work onsite in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA, ServiceNow integrations, API management, or hybrid connectivity.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial operations, asset-intensive environments, or MES integrations.
• Relevant SAP Integration Suite / Integration Developer certification.
• Additional SAP Ariba CIG, SAP BTP, API management, security, or SAP S/4HANA integration certifications.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based onsite in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, within the Eastern Region. The role involves working with a dedicated team to support critical enterprise integration initiatives.