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Job Title: SAP S/4HANA ABAP – Senior SME / Technical Lead
Role: SAP S/4HANA ABAP Technical Consultant / Technical Lead – Deployment
Responsibilities: We are looking for a senior SAP S/4HANA ABAP professional with 12–15+ years of relevant experience who can independently lead ABAP technical delivery for SAP S/4HANA implementation, conversion, or global rollout programs. The role requires strong customer-facing ownership, deep ABAP and S/4HANA extensibility expertise, and the ability to guide teams through design, build, testing, and cutover with high quality.
- Lead end-to-end ABAP technical delivery for SAP S/4HANA programs (Greenfield / Brownfield / Global Rollouts) as Senior SME / Technical Lead
- Own technical solution design, estimates, and execution across WRICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows)
- Drive S/4HANA extensibility strategy: key-user extensibility, developer extensibility, and clean-core principles
- Build and optimize ABAP developments using modern ABAP (7.4+), OOP, CDS views, and performance best practices
- Lead integration developments using IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, OData/SAP Gateway, REST/SOAP APIs, and event-based patterns where applicable
- Guide remediation efforts for ECC custom code adaptation to S/4HANA (simplification items, ATC checks, SQL performance, deprecated objects)
- Lead technical workshops with customers to clarify requirements, propose solution options, and finalize designs
- Own code quality, peer reviews, transport governance, and DevOps/CI-CD alignment (where applicable)
- Support SIT/UAT defect resolution, cutover activities, and hypercare stabilization
- Mentor developers, manage technical risks, and act as escalation point for complex issues
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as primary ABAP technical SME for the customer and program leadership
- Create and govern technical architecture/design documents and build standards
- Strong hands-on expertise in Core ABAP, ABAP OO, ALV, Enhancements (BAdI/User-Exit), Forms (Adobe/Smartforms), and Workflows
- Develop CDS Views, AMDP (as needed), and support ABAP for Fiori/OData enablement
- Drive interface and integration build with middleware (SAP CPI/PI/PO or equivalent) and external systems
- Ensure performance tuning: SQL optimization, parallelization approaches, batch jobs, and memory analysis
- Collaborate with functional, data, basis, security, and testing teams to ensure end-to-end delivery
Requirements:
- Minimum 12–15+ years of SAP ABAP experience with strong focus on SAP S/4HANA deployments
- Minimum 3 full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations/conversions/rollouts with significant custom build responsibility
- Strong skills in Core ABAP, ABAP OO, ALV, BAPI, BAdI, Enhancements, ALE/IDocs, RFC, and Debugging
- Experience with S/4HANA adaptation and remediation (ATC, simplification items, custom code analysis)
- Experience with CDS Views, OData/SAP Gateway, and ABAP for Fiori enablement
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to lead customer discussions independently and drive technical decisions
Project-Specific Requirements:
- Strong experience in developing technical designs and estimating ABAP work for large S/4 programs
- Hands-on experience building integrations (IDocs / APIs) and supporting data migration conversions
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum or SAFe delivery models
- Ability to coordinate multi-vendor teams and manage delivery dependencies
- Experience supporting cutover planning, mock loads, and go-live readiness
Account Context:
- Customer interviews are scenario and solution driven
- Strong focus on S/4HANA ABAP clean-core mindset, design decisions, and delivery leadership
- Expectation to articulate ECC vs S/4 custom code impacts and remediation approach
- Candidate must demonstrate ownership, strong communication, and confidence in customer-facing discussions
- Evaluation is technical depth + architecture mindset + leadership (no generic Q&A)
Environment: SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP (as applicable), SAP Gateway/OData, Integration (CPI/PI/PO or equivalent)
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