Job Description:

1. Role Description

Role Title: Senior Associate SAP ABAP, RAP & Integration Development

Experience Range: 5 10 Years

Project Context: Greenfield SAP S/4HANA Implementation on RISE with SAP Private Cloud

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced SAP ABAP Senior Associate to support a Greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation on RISE with SAP Private Cloud. The candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering modern, Clean Core-compliant SAP solutions using SAP RAP, ABAP Cloud principles, CDS Views, released APIs, and approved extensibility options.

A key focus of this role will be integration with a large number of peripheral and third-party systems. The candidate must be able to analyze end-to-end integration requirements and determine the appropriate responsibilities across SAP S/4HANA ABAP development and SAP BTP Integration Suite. This includes evaluating standard SAP APIs, CDS Views, business events, IDocs, SOAP services, OData services, and other supported integration mechanisms before proposing custom development.

The candidate should be capable of working independently with limited supervision and delivering RICEFW objects, with strong expertise in interfaces and enhancements.

Core Responsibilities

Independently design, develop, test, and deploy SAP S/4HANA ABAP solutions.

Develop applications and services using SAP RAP, CDS Views, ABAP OO, OData, and ABAP Cloud development principles.

Design Clean Core-compliant integrations between SAP S/4HANA and peripheral or third-party systems.

Analyze integration requirements and determine the appropriate split between SAP ABAP development and SAP BTP Integration Suite.

Research and evaluate standard SAP APIs, CDS Views, business events, IDocs, SOAP services, OData services, BAPIs, and other released integration options.

Develop and support end-to-end RICEFW objects, with particular focus on interfaces and enhancements.

Collaborate with functional consultants, integration architects, BTP developers, and external system teams.

Prepare technical designs, interface specifications, mapping documents, error-handling approaches, and support documentation.

Perform code reviews, defect resolution, performance tuning, testing support, cutover, and hypercare activities.

2. Job Description

Job Title

Senior Associate SAP ABAP, RAP, Clean Core & BTP Integration

Project Overview

Greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation on RISE with SAP Private Cloud, involving extensive integration with peripheral applications, external platforms, and third-party systems.

Role Overview

The Senior Associate will be responsible for designing, developing, and delivering SAP S/4HANA technical solutions aligned with SAP Clean Core principles and SAP's recommended extensibility and integration patterns.

The role requires strong hands-on experience in SAP ABAP, RAP, CDS Views, APIs, RICEFW development, interfaces, and enhancements. The candidate must also have a strong understanding of SAP BTP Integration Suite and be able to work closely with integration developers to deliver end-to-end interfaces.

The successful candidate must be able to analyze integration requirements, identify suitable standard SAP integration content, evaluate released APIs and CDS Views, and determine whether the required logic should be implemented in SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP Integration Suite, or the consuming system.

Key Responsibilities

SAP S/4HANA Development

Design, develop, and maintain SAP ABAP solutions for a Greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation on RISE with SAP Private Cloud.

Develop transactional applications and services using SAP RAP, including managed and unmanaged implementation scenarios.

Build CDS Views, behavior definitions, service definitions, service bindings, and reusable backend services.

Develop using ABAP OO, modern ABAP syntax, enhancement frameworks, output technologies, and S/4HANA development standards.

Apply ABAP Cloud and Clean Core principles while designing custom developments.

Use released objects, released APIs, approved enhancement points, and supported extensibility options wherever possible.

Perform ATC checks, code reviews, performance analysis, unit testing, and technical quality validation.

Integration Analysis and Design

Analyze end-to-end integration requirements involving SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP Integration Suite, peripheral applications, and third-party systems.





Evaluate whether integration requirements can be fulfilled through standard SAP capabilities before proposing custom development.

Research and assess available integration options, including:

SAP Business Accelerator Hub APIs

Released OData and REST APIs

SOAP Web Services

IDocs

RFCs and BAPIs

CDS Views

Custom CDS Views

Business Events

Event-driven integration patterns

Application Interface Framework

Proxy-based interfaces

File-based interfaces

Batch and real-time integration patterns

Determine the appropriate allocation of logic between:

SAP S/4HANA ABAP

SAP BTP Integration Suite

SAP Event Mesh

External or consuming applications

Identify opportunities to use standard APIs, pre-delivered integration content, standard events, and reusable integration patterns.

Assess API availability, release status, extensibility restrictions, payload structure, authentication requirements, performance considerations, and business suitability.

Support API gap analysis and recommend suitable alternatives when a standard API is not available.

Design custom RAP or OData services only where standard integration capabilities do not meet the business requirement.

Define synchronous, asynchronous, event-driven, batch, and near-real-time integration approaches.

Prepare interface solution designs, data mappings, field transformations, validation rules, error-handling mechanisms, monitoring requirements, and reconciliation processes.

Work closely with SAP BTP Integration Suite developers on message mappings, routing, orchestration, security, retries, exception handling, and operational monitoring.

Ensure integrations remain upgrade-friendly, loosely coupled, reusable, scalable, secure, and aligned with Clean Core principles.

RICEFW Development

Develop and support all categories of RICEFW objects:

Reports

Interfaces

Conversions

Enhancements

Forms

Workflows

The role will have a strong emphasis on interfaces and enhancements.

Interface Development

Develop and support inbound and outbound interfaces using:

OData services

REST APIs

SOAP Web Services

IDocs

RFCs and BAPIs

ABAP Proxies

CDS-based services

RAP services

File-based interfaces

Business events

Develop SAP-side validation, enrichment, persistence, staging, and error-handling logic.

Design custom API wrappers where necessary, while minimizing direct dependency on unreleased SAP objects.

Support interface monitoring, reprocessing, reconciliation, auditability, and production support.

Collaborate with security teams on communication arrangements, authorization objects, certificates, OAuth, API authentication, and technical users.

Enhancements and Extensibility

Design and implement enhancements using:

Released BAdIs

Enhancement Spots

Key User Extensibility

Developer Extensibility

Custom Fields and Logic

Side-by-side extensibility on SAP BTP

Approved on-stack extensibility options

Evaluate enhancement requirements against Clean Core guidelines.

Avoid modifications and usage of unreleased SAP objects unless formally reviewed and approved.

Recommend standard configuration or approved extension points before custom code.

Document technical debt, exceptions, and upgrade impact where non-standard approaches are unavoidable.

Project Delivery

Participate in Fit-to-Standard workshops and technical design discussions.

Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Prepare technical specifications, interface design documents, API assessment documents, mapping specifications, and unit test scripts.

Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

Troubleshoot complex interface failures and production issues across SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP Integration Suite.

Coordinate with functional teams, solution architects, enterprise integration teams, security teams, BTP developers, and third-party vendors.





Mentor junior developers and conduct peer reviews.

Independently manage assigned developments with limited supervision.

Required Experience

5 10 years of hands-on SAP ABAP development experience.

Robust SAP S/4HANA implementation experience.

Experience in at least one end-to-end Greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation.

Experience working in a RISE with SAP Private Cloud environment is strongly preferred.

Demonstrated experience delivering interfaces for multiple peripheral or third-party systems.

Strong experience in end-to-end integration analysis and technical solution design.

Experience working jointly with SAP BTP Integration Suite or SAP Cloud Integration developers.

Proven experience evaluating standard SAP APIs, CDS Views, IDocs, events, web services, and other integration mechanisms.

Ability to work independently and deliver with limited technical supervision.

Required Technical Skills

SAP ABAP and ABAP Objects

SAP RAP

ABAP Cloud development principles

CDS Views and CDS-based services

OData services

REST and SOAP APIs

SAP Gateway

IDocs

RFCs and BAPIs

ABAP Proxies

Enhancements and BAdIs

Adobe Forms and S/4HANA Output Management

AMDP and SQL performance optimization

ATC and code quality checks

SAP S/4HANA extensibility framework

Clean Core principles

SAP BTP Integration Suite concepts

API-led and event-driven integration patterns

Interface monitoring, error handling, and reconciliation

Integration-Specific Competencies

The candidate must be able to:

Search for and evaluate standard SAP APIs and integration content.

Understand SAP API release and extensibility classifications.

Analyze standard and custom CDS Views for integration use cases.

Identify the correct SAP business object and source of truth for required data.

Determine whether SAP S/4HANA should expose, consume, publish, or subscribe to information.

Decide when to use APIs, IDocs, events, SOAP services, OData, files, RFCs, or custom RAP services.

Define the division of responsibilities between SAP ABAP and SAP BTP Integration Suite.

Evaluate real-time versus batch integration needs.

Design secure, scalable, supportable, and upgrade-stable integrations.

Avoid unnecessary point-to-point custom interfaces.

Document interface dependencies, assumptions, limitations, and operational support requirements.

Preferred Skills

SAP BTP Integration Suite, including Cloud Integration.

SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

SAP Event Mesh.

SAP Application Interface Framework.

SAP Cloud ALM integration monitoring.

Fiori Elements and SAPUI5 backend enablement.

SAP BTP ABAP Environment.

Git-enabled Change and Transport System or modern ABAP Dev Ops practices.

SAP Activate and Agile delivery methodology.

API management, OAuth, certificates, and cloud security concepts.

Experience with high-volume or business-critical integrations.

Behavioral Competencies

Ability to work independently with limited supervision.

Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.

Ability to challenge unnecessary custom development and recommend standard solutions.

Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Ability to collaborate across SAP, BTP, middleware, security, functional, and third-party teams.

Strong ownership and accountability for technical deliverables.

Ability to explain complex integration options clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to mentor junior team members and review technical designs and code.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is not only a strong ABAP developer but also an integration-focused technical consultant. The person should be capable of understanding an end-to-end business process, identifying the appropriate SAP business objects and integration mechanisms, researching available standard APIs and CDS Views, and designing the SAP-side solution in coordination with the SAP BTP Integration Suite team.

The candidate should avoid treating every integration requirement as a custom ABAP interface. Instead, the candidate must apply a standard-first and Clean Core mindset and recommend the most appropriate integration pattern based on business, technical, security, supportability, and upgrade considerations.
Additional Information: SPOC - Tanushree ()
Mandatory Skills - Under JD
Nice to have skills - Under JD
Clean Room Project - No

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