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.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Relevant SAP certifications are preferred but not mandatory.