Senior SAP ABAP Lead - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Senior SAP ABAP Lead - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: Racine, NJ

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $67.00hr - $72.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior SAP ABAP Lead to provide technical leadership, governance, and coordination across multiple SAP delivery streams, including AMS, Project Implementations, Enhancements, and Support initiatives. The role requires a balance of hands-on ABAP development expertise and leadership capabilities to ensure consistent technical standards, delivery excellence, resource coordination, and solution quality across distributed teams. The candidate will collaborate with functional teams, project managers, architects, and business stakeholders to drive successful SAP outcomes while supporting operations during Central Time (CT) business hours.

Technical Leadership & Governance:

• Provide technical leadership across SAP ABAP teams supporting AMS, Projects, Enhancements, and Transformation initiatives.
• Establish and enforce ABAP development standards, coding guidelines, review processes, and quality controls.
• Govern technical deliverables to ensure consistency, performance, scalability, and compliance with SAP best practices.
• Review and approve technical designs, development estimates, and solution approaches.
• Drive technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate development activities across multiple teams and vendors, ensuring alignment with business priorities and project timelines.
• Track delivery metrics, technical debt, code quality, and continuous improvement initiatives.

SAP Development & Solution Delivery:

• Design, develop, and support SAP ABAP solutions across ECC and/or S/4HANA environments.
• Perform complex development and troubleshooting involving Reports (Classical, Interactive, ALV), Enhancements and User Exits, BAdIs and Enhancement Framework, Smart Forms, SAP Scripts, Adobe Forms, Interfaces (IDoc, RFC, BAPI, OData, Web Services), CDS Views and AMDP, Workflow Integrations, and Fiori and Backend Services support.
• Conduct code reviews and performance optimization activities.
• Support production issues and critical business incidents when required.
• Ensure adherence to transport management and release management processes.

Stakeholder & Team Coordination:

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for ABAP-related activities.
• Collaborate with functional consultants, solution architects, business teams, and project managers.
• Lead technical discussions, design workshops, and governance meetings.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level ABAP developers.
• Support resource planning, workload distribution, and knowledge transfer initiatives.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and simplification.
• Promote reusable components, development accelerators, and development best practices.
• Contribute to SAP modernization initiatives, including S/4HANA transformation programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of SAP ABAP development experience.
• Proven experience leading and coordinating multiple ABAP teams in AMS and Project environments.
• Strong expertise in SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA development.
• Hands-on experience with ABAP Objects, OData Services, CDS Views, Enhancements Framework, Interfaces and Integrations, Performance Tuning, and SAP Forms Technologies.
• Experience managing development lifecycles and release processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively during Central Time (CT) business hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities