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.