GBS ITS SAP COE Sustain : ABAP Developer

SAP S/4 Technical Consultant/Developer to own sustainment and continuous improvement of our SAP S/4HANA landscape across core modules (e.g., FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, QM). The ideal candidate is a hands-on ABAP expert with strong integration mindset who thrives in production support, stability, and continuous delivery environments. You’ll be accountable for incident/problem resolution, performance tuning, defect prevention, and delivering small to medium enhancements—closely partnering with the Integration team to keep interfaces, APIs, and events reliable and compliant.on ABAP expert with strong  

Goal of function: 

Senior Developer / Lead in SAP S/4 ABAP to drive solution design and development across FI, SD, MM, PP,QM, PM, and other modules. This role combines deep technical expertise with leadership, ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions aligned with SAP S/4HANA best practices. Provide leadership for API-led connectivity, data exchange, and event-driven patterns to support S/4HANA and cloud platforms while complying with governance, security, and performance standards. 

Please describe the objective and value contribution of the function briefly and concisely. 

Career Path 

                                                                                     Please specify from Senior level on: 

 No allocation because below Senior level        Expert career   Project Management career     Line Management career 

Tasks* 

•  Drive Clean Core Approach for Application Development and Maintenance. based objects in S/4HANA (Reports, Enhancements/Exits/BAdIs, Forms, CDS/OData, Workflows, Interfaces, Conversions).  

• Own L2/L3 technical support for Technical objects in S/4HANA (Reports, Enhancements/Exits/BAdIs, Forms, CDS/OData, Workflows, Interfaces, Conversions).  

•   Triage, debug, and resolve incidents within SLA; perform root cause analysis and implement durable fixes and preventive actions. cause analysis and implement durable fixes and preventive actions.  

•   Proactively monitor Program Performance, Deep dive into code analysis, Monitoring Jobs, IDoc, Message queues, OData services, event mesh/queues, and performance KPIs; set up alerts and auto remediation scripts where feasible. remediation scripts where feasible.  

•   Optimize custom code for S/4 HANA performance (SQL trace/PlanViz, ATC findings, ST12/ST05, SAT) and guide functional teams on datamodel impacts.model impacts. 

•   Maintain and enhance IDoc/ALE, BAPIs/RFCs, OData (SAP Gateway), RAP services, and CDS based analytics used by downstream systems. based analytics 

•   Collaborate with the Integration team on message mappings, error handling, reprocessing, and versioning across middleware BTP -Integration Suite, API Management , event driven patterns. driven patterns.  

• Knowledge and Experience in CAP-M (Cloud Application Programming Model), GitHub repository . 

2) Secondary tasks: 

• You will also act as a technical SME for ABAP OO, CDS views, OData/RAP, Fiori, IDoc/ALE, BAPIs/RFCs, and work across middleware like SAP PI/PO or SAP CPI (Integration Suite) and SAP BTP services. This role requires excellent debugging skills, deep understanding of the S/4HANA extension toolbox (InApp and SidebySide), and a disciplined approach to ITIL/DevOps operations and transport/change management. 

  Serve as a technical mentor for junior developers and external partners; enforce dev standards and naming conventions.  

  Partner with Functional, Basis/Security, Integration, Data, and Business stakeholders to align solutions to business outcomes.  

  Provide oncall/afterhours support during releases, cutovers, quarter/yearend, and critical events. 

3) Miscellaneous tasks: 

• Lead cutovers and hypercare for implementations and Rollout of releases. 

• Evaluate emerging SAP/BTP integration capabilities and recommend adoption roadmaps. 

• Contribute to vendor RFPs and SoW reviews for integration tooling and services. 

Tasks not performed regularly which are nevertheless a distinct part of the job, or special tasks / project work. 

Key Performance Indicators 

Please list distinguishing qualitative and quantitative features by means of which performance in the position can be measured. 

•   Incident SLAs: % resolved within SLA; MTTR (Mean Time to Resolve).  

•   Stability: Reduction in repeat incidents/recurrences; successful batch/IDoc throughput.  

•   Quality: ATC compliance rate; defect leakage to production; unit test coverage.  

•   Performance: Execution time improvements for critical reports/interfaces.  

•   Change Success: Change success rate, rollback rate, and transport firsttimeright %.  

•   Documentation & Knowledge: Currency and completeness of technical docs and KEDB articles.  

•   Collaboration: Stakeholder satisfaction (postincident and release surveys). 

Qualifications, experience, know-how and skills critical for success* 

1) Required training and education: 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 

Vocational training, university degree, PhD, MBA, specialized further education etc. 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 

• 5–8 years of experience in SAP ABAP development, with exposure to SAP S/4HANA. 

• Strong knowledge of ABAP programming adhering to Clean Core recommendations from SAP. 

• Experience with RICEFW development and SAP enhancement frameworks (BADI, User Exits, Enhancements). 

• Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori/UI5 development and CDS views. 

• Knowledge of SAP functional  modules such as FI/CO, MM, SD, PP etc is a plus. 

• Exposure to SAP application maintenance and development projects, including upgrades and migrations. 

• SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Certified Development Associate – ABAP for SAP HANA) are desirable. 

Please list the minimum number of years of professional experience required, as well as all relevant experience in specific functions, e.g. project management or line management experience. 

3) Important personal qualities: 

• Customer-centric, outcome-driven, and pragmatic. 

• Strong leadership and coaching capability. 

• Analytical and structured problem solver; attention to detail with a quality mindset. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across business and IT. 

Please list the qualities that are of special significance for the successful performance of tasks if they have not been outlined sufficiently in a attached competence profile. 

4) Other specialized knowledge: 

a) Technical knowledge 

• ABAP programming - RICEFW development (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms) .  

• SAP Fiori/UI5 and CDS views 

• Debugging and performance tuning 

• Knowledge of SAP transport management and version control 

• Understanding of ITIL processes 

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b) Languages 

Fluent English; additional European language a plus. 

c) IT skills 

Proficiency with SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM, Interface Monitoring (e.g., SAP Application Interface Framework/PAI), and log/metric tools; working knowledge of Azure/AWS services for connectivity. 

d) Product knowledge 

  Core: SAP BTP , BAS , ABAP Workbench, Eclipse based ABAP Development Tools (ADT), ATC, ABAP Unit, SEGW, RAP tooling. based  

  Monitoring/Tracing: ST22, ST12, ST05, SAT, SM37, SLG1, SM59, WE02/WE05, /IWFND/MAINT_SERVICE, /IWBEP/REG_SERVICE, performance traces, CPI monitoring, PI/PO runtime/worklist.  

  Change & Ops: Solution Manager/ChaRM, CTS+/gCTS, ITSM (ServiceNow/Jira/Remedy), Git (where applicable).  

  Integration: SAP BTP-IS, OData, REST, IDoc, RFC/BAPI, queues/events, API Management.  

  Collab: Jira/Azure DevOps, Confluence/SharePoint, MS Teams 

5 ) Special personal requirements: 

Please list requirements such as willingness to travel or work weekends or shifts etc. 

Willingness to work with global teams across time zones; occasional travel; support critical releases as needed.