Development Architect - ABAP

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

• Translating business and customer requirements into technical requirements, models and software architecture  

• Be responsible for setting up collaboration with developers of the scrum team and contribute to all tasks of scrum team. 

• Collaborate and work with teams spread across geographies and time zones.  

• You will work on the entire lifecycle of development projects, both customer specific and SAP-defined. This includes the analysis and specification of the customer-specific business requirements as well as the design, implementation, maintenance and in case of cloud services operation of customer-specific solutions.  

• Aligns architecture with stakeholders regarding architectural or technical dependencies. 

• Coach team members to become proficient in development & quality processes, and technologies used in the team, thereby increasing expertise and productivity. 

• Supports and advice product owner by ensuring technical and architectural feasibility, readiness, and compliance. 

• Continuously improve designs and implementations along with contributing significantly to the technical solutions. 

• Possess a DevOps mindset, including ownership of topics from development through to deployment in production. 

• Drive innovation and continuous improvement mindset in the people and showcase innovation in deliverables. 

• Trouble shoot critical production issues. 

• Adhere to the agile engineering practices and processes followed by the team. Own your code from ideation to development, across the full stack and through QA and support.  

• You will work on multiple topics and technologies with adequate enablement. 

What you bring:

• 14+ years of relevant experience in software development in skills listed below.  

• Strong programming background in S4, ABAP, CDS, ODATA, HANA Database, BOPF, RAP.  
• Strong process knowledge in Logistic, Procurement, Finance (SD, MM, FI)

• Proven track record of building multiple applications in SAP S4 and BTP and cloud environment, leading and guiding development teams in the role of an architect. 

• Good understanding of cloud native architecture & development.  

• Hands-on experience in cloud-based development using BTP and Development in  S4 using ABAP, CDS, ODATA, HANA Database, BOPF, RAP.  

• Experience in ODATA and REST API.  

• Application development experience with RAP programming model 

• Ability to understand customer business process requirements and translate them into software solutions. 

• Excellent communication in English. 

Meet your team

SAP Customer Innovation Services Engineering (Previously known as Innovative Business Solutions (IBSO)) is a global organization dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to meet our customers’ unique business process needs. We deliver a full lifecycle of customer specific development services – from strategic planning, risk assessment, development, and quality assurance to maintenance. With development centres in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, and India, we leverage a global delivery model.  

Our vision is to become the premier strategic RISE with SAP enabler, driving accelerated innovation and technology adoption leveraging the SAP Business Technology Platform, focusing on a clean core approach. 

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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Requisition ID: 414261  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.