Job Title: Manager | ABAP | Hyderabad | SAP | DSA LS&HC
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Your work profile
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of SAP ABAP solutions.
- Manage end-to-end delivery of RICEFW objects, including: Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows
- Work closely with business stakeholders, functional consultants, architects, and integration teams to understand requirements and define appropriate technical solutions.
- Review functional specifications and provide technical feasibility assessments, effort estimates, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.
- Prepare and review technical specifications, solution designs, development standards, test evidence, deployment plans, and support documentation.
- Lead technical design workshops and provide recommendations on SAP development approaches.
- Allocate work across the development team and track deliverables against project plans and milestones.
- Manage technical delivery across implementation, rollout, upgrade, migration, enhancement, and production-support engagements.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to SAP development standards, security guidelines, performance standards, and project-specific quality requirements.
- Ensure appropriate unit testing, peer reviews, defect resolution, and technical validation before deployment.
- Provide technical leadership for complex developments, production issues, performance problems, and integration challenges.
- Manage technical risks, issues, dependencies, and escalations, and communicate them proactively to project leadership.
- Coordinate with onsite, offshore, client, functional, basis, security, integration, and infrastructure teams.
- Support release planning, transport management, cutover activities, go-live, and post-go-live stabilization.
- Monitor team productivity, quality, utilization, and delivery performance.
- Mentor junior consultants and senior consultants and support their technical and professional development.
- Participate in project planning, resource planning, estimation, proposal development, solutioning, and client presentations.
- Identify opportunities for automation, reusable assets, process improvement, and technical innovation.
- Ensure that the technical solution complies with applicable regulatory, audit, validation, and documentation requirements.
Key skills required
- 10–15 years of experience in SAP ABAP development, including experience in a technical lead or managerial role.
- Strong hands-on experience in developing and managing RICEFW objects.
- Extensive knowledge of ABAP Workbench, Data Dictionary, modularization techniques, function modules, and object-oriented ABAP.
- Strong experience with classical reports, interactive reports, ALV reports, and custom applications.
- Experience with interfaces using IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, APIs, proxies, web services, and file-based integration.
- Experience with conversion and migration techniques using BDC, LSMW, BAPIs, migration programs, and custom tools.
- Strong knowledge of enhancement techniques, including BAdIs, user exits, customer exits, enhancement spots, and implicit and explicit enhancements.
- Experience with Smart Forms, SAPscript, Adobe Forms, and output-management solutions.
- Experience with SAP Business Workflow or Flexible Workflow.
- Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and performance-optimization skills.
- Experience in reviewing technical designs, code quality, performance, security, and development standards.
- Experience in technical estimation, planning, work allocation, delivery tracking, and risk management.
- Proven ability to manage technical teams and deliver solutions across geographically distributed teams.
- Strong client-facing, stakeholder-management, presentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, workstreams, and deliverables in a complex project environment.
- Strong experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, conversion, or support projects.
- Experience with CDS views, AMDP, OData services, SAP Gateway, and ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse.
- Understanding of SAP Fiori architecture and backend development for Fiori applications.
- Knowledge of RAP, SAP BTP, side-by-side extensibility, and modern SAP development approaches.
- Understanding of SAP clean-core principles and extensibility guidelines.
- Experience with SAP HANA performance optimization and code pushdown techniques.
- Exposure to integration platforms such as SAP Integration Suite or SAP Process Integration/Process Orchestration.
- Experience with Agile, SAP Activate, DevOps, continuous integration, and automated testing practices.
- Experience in estimation, proposal preparation, solution presentations, and pre-sales activities.
- SAP certification in ABAP, S/4HANA, SAP BTP, or a related area is preferred.
- Strong technical leadership and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable SAP technical solutions.
- Strong ownership and accountability for technical delivery.
- Ability to manage teams, stakeholders, risks, timelines, and competing priorities.
- Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to coach, mentor, motivate, and develop team members.
- Proactive approach to identifying delivery risks and implementing corrective actions.
- Commitment to quality, compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Graduate Degree (Science or Engineering) B.SC (IT), B.SC (Computer Science), BE/BTech or MBA in a related discipline.
- Relevant SAP certifications are preferred but not mandatory.