SAP ABAP Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level SAP ABAP architecture and technical advisory across SAP applications and enterprise solutions.
• Lead the technical design and architecture of complex SAP ABAP and S/4HANA solutions.
• Define and enforce SAP development standards, coding guidelines, architecture principles, and best practices.
• Review existing ABAP solutions and recommend improvements related to performance, scalability, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Provide technical guidance for SAP modernization and S/4HANA transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate existing custom ABAP developments and identify opportunities for clean-core compliant extensions and modernization.
• Design and review RICEF objects including Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows.
• Provide technical leadership for ABAP OO, CDS Views, AMDP, RAP, OData, and modern S/4HANA development.
• Advise development teams on appropriate SAP extension approaches and architectural patterns.
• Provide technical guidance on SAP BTP capabilities and how BTP services can complement the SAP application landscape.
• Collaborate with SAP functional teams, enterprise architects, developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.
• Participate in technical design reviews, architecture discussions, code reviews, and solution assessments.
• Troubleshoot complex SAP technical issues and provide root-cause analysis and long-term solutions.
• Review technical specifications and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Mentor senior and junior ABAP developers and provide technical direction to development teams.
• Support performance optimization and technical remediation of existing SAP applications.
• Contribute to SAP roadmap planning, technical assessments, and future-state architecture.
• Ensure SAP solutions follow appropriate security, governance, compliance, and development standards.

Required Technical Skills

SAP ABAP

• 12+ years of strong SAP ABAP development and architecture experience.
• Extensive experience with ABAP OO and modern ABAP development.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA technical architecture and development.
• Strong knowledge of:

• ABAP Objects
• Reports
• Interfaces
• Conversions
• Enhancements
• Forms
• Workflows
• BAdIs
• User Exits
• Enhancement Framework

• Strong experience with performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience reviewing and modernizing legacy ABAP code.
• Strong understanding of SAP development lifecycle and transport management.

S/4HANA & Modern SAP Development

Strong experience with several of the following:

• CDS Views
• AMDP
• OData
• SAP Gateway
• RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
• Fiori/UI5 technical concepts
• S/4HANA extensibility
• Clean Core principles
• In-App Extensibility
• Developer Extensibility
• Side-by-Side Extensibility