Middleware Engineer - System Integration (EDI, SAP CPI)

About the role

BASF's Business Process Integration (BPI) team delivers digital solutions for B2B integrations with external partners, enabling real-time data exchange between applications, businesses, customers and partners. This role focuses on solution development and operation (DevOps) to integrate BASF businesses with partners, drive efficiencies and support BASF's e-share, ensuring solutions are standardized, runnable, supportable and stable.

Key responsibilities

• Consult the BPI team on technical application questions during solution design and functional specification
• Estimate effort and contribute to project planning, and create technical design documents
• Configure and develop in systems such as SAP, Kafka, SAP HANA DB or Java-based stacks
• Manage development activities, including internal and external resource planning
• Support testing and service transition, and collaborate with the support team on process improvements
• Translate stakeholder requirements into specifications for integration technologies such as SAP CPI, Kafka, API management and Java
• Design and build software components, integrate and test them, and document developments

Required profile

• Master's degree in CS or STEM with 4-6 years of IT experience, or Bachelor's with 6-8 years, or diploma with 6+ years of IT/application development experience
• Minimum 4 years of related work experience
• Experience with Agile methods; international company experience is a plus
• Fluent English and strong teamwork, communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work across time zones

Required skills

• SAP CPI, API management, SAP HANA DB and integration scenarios (orders, invoices)
• Azure or AWS cloud big data architectures
• Java, Python, SQL, Scala; event-driven microservices
• Azure DevOps, GitHub or similar; 2nd/3rd level support
• Nice to have: EDI, SAP IDOC, Kafka, KSQL Streams, SAP SLT, SAP S/4HANA SD/MM/TM, AI-assisted coding, Agile and SAP certifications

The position is listed as permanent and hybrid, and applies through the BASF Digital Hub Hyderabad.