We're looking for a Senior ABAP Consultant to join our in-house SAP team supporting an S/4HANA Cloud landscape. This is a long-term, in-house role not project-based consulting covering a balanced mix of production support and ongoing enhancement work. You'll operate within a clean-core philosophy, building extensions the right way rather than touching standard objects, and you'll be a key technical partner to business and functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
Enhancement / Development (70%)
- Design and build custom extensions using ABAP Cloud (RAP RESTful ABAP Programming Model)
- Develop CDS views, behavior definitions, and OData/SAP Graph APIs for Fiori and external consumption
- Work within Key User Extensibility and Developer Extensibility frameworks as appropriate to the landscape edition
- Build and maintain integrations (SAP Integration Suite / CPI, APIs) with non-SAP systems
- Partner with functional consultants (MM, SD, FI/CO, etc.) to convert business requirements into extension-secure technical designs
- Participate in release cycle testing S/4HANA Cloud's quarterly updates require proactive regression testing of custom extensions
- Contribute to the clean-core roadmap — flagging legacy custom code / modifications for remediation
Support (30%)
- Provide L2/L3 technical support for custom extensions, interfaces, and integrations
- Perform root-cause analysis on production issues and implement permanent fixes within clean-core guardrails
- Support critical business cycles (period-end, month-end) with on-call technical assistance
- Manage transports and releases through the cloud ALM / transport management system
- Monitor and troubleshoot extensibility apps and custom CDS views/APIs for performance issues
Must-Have Technical Skills
- 6–10+ years of ABAP experience, with at least 2+ years specifically on S/4HANA Cloud or ABAP Cloud
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- SAP BTP exposure (since most S/4HANA Cloud extensions increasingly live there)
- SAP Integration Suite (CPI) for integration scenarios
- RAP (RESTful ABAP Programming Model) — behavior definitions, behavior implementations, projections
- CDS Views (including annotations for Fiori Elements)
- ABAP Cloud development model and released APIs/BAPIs (vs. classic unrestricted ABAP)
- OData services / SAP API Business Hub consumption
- Understanding of clean-core principles and side-by-side vs. in-app extensibility trade-offs
- Experience with SAP Business Application Studio (BAS) and/or Eclipse-based ADT for cloud development
- Familiarity with SAP Cloud ALM or equivalent for transport/change management in cloud landscapes
- Working knowledge of at least one functional module's data flow (MM/SD/FI preferred)