: SAP ABAP Manager

Experience: 10-15 years

Role: Manager

Primary Skill: SAP ABAP and RICEFW Development

Industry Experience: Life Sciences experience will be an added advantage.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced SAP ABAP Manager to lead the design, development, delivery, and support of SAP technical solutions. The candidate should possess strong hands-on expertise in SAP ABAP and RICEFW objects, along with proven experience in managing technical teams and engaging with business, functional, client, and project stakeholders.

The role requires a combination of technical depth, delivery leadership, solution ownership, team management, and strong stakeholder communication. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that SAP ABAP solutions are scalable, secure, performant, and aligned with SAP development standards and clean-core principles.

Key Responsibilities

- 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.

Required Skills and Experience

- 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 Adaptable 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.

Preferred Skills

- 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.

Leadership and Management Competencies

- Strong technical leadership and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable SAP technical solutions.
- Robust ownership and accountability for technical delivery.
- Ability to manage teams, stakeholders, risks, timelines, and competing priorities.
- Robust 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.

Educational Qualifications

- Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Relevant SAP certifications are preferred but not mandatory.

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