SAP Interface Specialist (m/f/d)

About the job

As the fifth largest canton in Switzerland with around 6000 employees, we at the cantonal administration are committed to the common good of society. With an impressive variety of services, our work affects all areas of life, be it education, economy, law, security, nature, health, construction, culture, and finance. Through our meaningful work, we leave a small footprint every day, as it is relevant to over half a million people.


To complement our team, we are looking for you immediately or by arrangement for the role of

SAP Interface Specialist (m/f/d)

• You take responsibility for the SAP Integration Suite as the central integration platform and actively shape the further development of the integration landscape between SAP and non-SAP systems.
• You ensure a secure, stable, comprehensible, and audit-proof integration of financial and business data between SAP systems, surrounding systems, and external applications.
• You design, implement, and optimise integration scenarios, interfaces, APIs, and data flows based on the SAP Integration Suite.
• You analyse and prioritise requirements from the specialist departments and develop professional concepts, solution proposals, and technical specifications from them.
• You actively contribute to the optimisation, standardisation, and documentation of business processes and support the further development of our SAP system landscape.
• You support users in 2nd level support, analyse faults, and ensure stable operation through testing and quality assurance. Additionally, you support internal and external audits and ensure clean documentation and sustainable knowledge transfer.
• You participate in IT and specialist projects, coordinate collaboration between specialist departments, IT, and external partners, and take on partial project responsibility if required. You bring your expertise in SAP Finance, SAP Integration Suite, SAP BTP, and modern integration architectures and continuously develop it further.

• You have a completed degree (FH/Uni) in computer science, business informatics, or business administration, as well as ideally further training in SAP Finance (FI/CO) and system integration.
• You have sound knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance and experience with hybrid SAP landscapes (on-premise / private cloud).
• You have in-depth knowledge of the SAP Integration Suite and experience in designing, implementing, and operating integration and interface solutions.
• You bring extensive experience with SAP interfaces and integration standards such as RFC, ALE, web services, and REST APIs and know the corresponding end-to-end data flows between SAP and third-party systems.
• You have good knowledge of common data formats and mapping basics (XML, CSV, JSON) as well as experience in analysing, monitoring, and troubleshooting interfaces. You communicate clearly and appropriately with specialist departments, IT, and external partners and work in a customer- and service-oriented manner.
• You convince through teamwork, resilience, flexibility, very good German skills, as well as a confident and reliable manner.

• A responsible and varied role in a future-oriented environment
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of time- and location-independent work (e.g. home office)
• Opportunities for further training and personal development
• A motivated team and a modern, future-oriented IT environment
• Attractive workplace in the centre of the city of St. Gallen

IT Finance and Logistics
Stefan Schmid, Head of IT Finance & Logistics, stefan.schmid@sg.ch