An experienced SAP ABAP lead consultant is required with deep expertise in classical and modern ABAP development, S/4HANA extensibility, enterprise integration, and technical solution governance to drive complex SAP engineering initiatives across business-critical supply chain, manufacturing, and finance processes for a global dairy and nutrition enterprise. The role goes beyond individual development and requires ownership of technical design authority, extensibility strategy, clean-core alignment, code-quality governance, integration architecture, and delivery leadership across application support and transformation programs. The consultant is expected to operate as a senior technical lead across business, functional, integration, BASIS, security, and development teams, combining strong hands-on capability with oversight of technical standards, estimation, architecture reviews, release planning, cutover readiness, and hypercare stabilization.

Key responsibilities

- Own end-to-end technical solution design and delivery for RICEFW objects including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, workflows, APIs, and custom services across ECC and S/4HANA landscapes.
- Lead advanced ABAP development using OO ABAP, CDS views, AMDP, RAP, OData services, BAPIs, BADIs, enhancement frameworks, proxy-based integration, and event-driven or service-oriented patterns aligned to clean-core principles.
- Drive technical architecture decisions for extensibility, balancing in-app and side-by-side approaches, upgrade compatibility, performance, maintainability, and alignment to SAP-standard design patterns.
- Design and govern enterprise integration components across SAP and non-SAP platforms using IDocs, web services, APIs, middleware-connected interfaces, data transformations, and reconciliation or monitoring controls.
- Build and optimize Fiori-enablement back-end services, RAP-based business objects, CDS-based semantic models, analytical views, and custom OData services supporting modern SAP user experiences.
- Lead data migration and conversion development using LTMC, migration cockpit-aligned approaches, LSMW where relevant, BDC techniques, staging logic, and validation frameworks for transformation programs.
- Perform deep performance analysis and remediation across custom developments using SQL trace, runtime analysis,



code inspector or ATC-aligned quality checks, buffering strategy, parallelization opportunities, and database-efficient coding approaches.
- Act as the primary technical escalation point for production-critical defects, integration failures, performance degradation, transport issues, and cross-module technical inconsistencies, with structured root-cause analysis and preventive action planning.
- Prepare high-quality technical specifications, design documents, estimation inputs, code-review findings, and deployment plans; govern build quality across internal teams, vendors, and offshore delivery units.
- Lead SIT, UAT support, defect remediation, mock cutovers, transport sequencing, deployment execution, hypercare stabilization, and transition into steady-state support.
- Collaborate with functional consultants across SD, MM, WM, PP, FI, CO, and Treasury domains to translate complex business requirements into scalable and supportable technical solutions.
- Mentor junior developers, establish development frameworks and reusable assets, enforce coding standards, and provide technical leadership in architecture forums, design reviews, and engineering governance meetings.

Mandatory skills

Core ABAP and technical delivery

- Deep hands-on expertise in OO ABAP, modularization techniques, reports, dialog programming, enhancements, BADIs, user exits, BAPIs, IDocs, proxies, Smartforms, Adobe Forms, workflows, and transport management.
- Strong capability in end-to-end RICEFW delivery across design, build, unit testing, documentation, release support, and post-go-live stabilization.

Contemporary ABAP and S/4HANA extensibility

- Strong experience with CDS views, AMDP, RAP, OData, embedded analytics enablement, and S/4HANA-oriented development patterns for scalable, upgrade-aware custom solutions.
- Clear understanding of clean-core principles, extensibility options, technical debt reduction,



and modernization of custom code during ECC-to-S/4HANA transitions.

Integration and performance engineering

- Proven experience designing and supporting interfaces across SAP and non-SAP applications using IDoc, API, proxy, file-based, and middleware-enabled patterns.
- Strong performance-tuning expertise across SQL, ABAP runtime optimization, memory handling, and large-volume transaction or batch-processing scenarios.

Implementation and leadership

- Proven experience in multiple full-lifecycle SAP implementations, major rollouts, or transformation programmes, with additional ownership in AMS stabilization and enterprise technical governance.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops, challenge non-scalable designs, review solution quality, estimate delivery effort, and govern execution across onsite, offshore, and third-party teams.
- Strong experience with release management, change governance, defect triage, cutover planning, retrofit considerations, transport controls, and service transition.

Domain expectations

- Experience supporting development across food, dairy, nutrition, manufacturing, supply-chain, and finance processes in high-volume, interface-heavy SAP environments.
- Practical understanding of audit-sensitive change management, regulated process controls, and the need for resilient technical solutions in business-critical operations.
- Ability to design reusable technical assets that support process standardization and long-term maintainability across global programmes.

Preferred qualifications

- Exposure to SAP Fiori or UI5 fundamentals, SAP BTP extensibility concepts, and RAP-based application development is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with S/4HANA greenfield or brownfield transformation programmes and custom-code remediation is desirable.
- SAP ABAP or S/4HANA development certification is a plus.

Soft skills

- Excellent stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, structured communication, and technical documentation capability.
- Strong analytical problem solving, ownership mindset, delivery rigor, and ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced global support and transformation environment.
- Ability to balance architectural thinking with deep hands-on execution, quality discipline, and production support accountability.

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