Development Expert - ABAP

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. 

What you'll Build?

At SAP Ariba Procurement Product Team, our mission is to provide the world’s leading cloud-based spend management solution, unifying the SAP Procurement portfolio across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba Applications & Business Network, and SAP Fieldglass.

To strengthen our team further, we are looking for a motivated and skilled ABAP Architect to join our S/4 Procurement Bangalore Team. In this role, you'll:

• Provide architectural leadership for designing, developing, and evolving enterprise-grade applications in the SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud environment.
• Define solution architecture across ABAP Cloud, RAP, ABAP OO, CDS, OData, HANA, and BOPF-based architectures.
• Drive architectural decisions aligned with clean-core principles, extensibility guidelines, performance best practices, and SAP cloud compliance.
• Collaborate with functional experts, product managers, and engineering leaders to translate complex business requirements into robust architectural designs.
• Lead technical scoping and provide reliable effort estimations for features, enhancements, and architectural initiatives, ensuring accurate planning and alignment with delivery timelines.
• Mentor and guide developers across teams, conduct architectural reviews, and enforce high standards of code quality, modularity, and performance.
• Lead the definition and modernization of frameworks built on CDS, OData, RAP behaviours, BOPF entities, and ABAP OO design patterns.
• Oversee and enhance test automation frameworks, ensuring architectural correctness, regression coverage, and long-term code stability.
• Develop comprehensive architecture documents, solution designs, extension patterns, and reusable components to accelerate engineering.
• Continuously explore and advocate developer-efficiency tools, automation, reusable libraries, code-generation frameworks, and cloud extensibility innovations.
• Influence product-level technical roadmap, performance benchmarks, integration patterns, and platform-wide architecture strategy.
• Drive adoption of generative AI and machine learning across procurement systems, utilizing SAP's AI services to revolutionize user experiences and automation.
• Design high-performance, globally distributed architectures using SAP's cloud-native principles.
• Build AI-powered automation for testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response in enterprise software delivery.

What you bring?

• 12+ years of experience in software development, with strong educational qualifications (Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or MCA).
• Deep programming fundamentals with extensive expertise in core ABAP concepts such as modularization, debugging, ABAP Dictionary, and advanced proficiency in ABAP/ABAP OO, CDS view modelling, OData services, and HANA-optimized development.
• Proven architectural and hands-on experience with RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model), including behaviour definitions, service exposure, extensibility models, and cloud-ready application design.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP Fiori elements and UI5
• Solid understanding of BOPF-based applications, legacy transformation patterns, and coexistence models between BOPF and RAP.
• Good understanding of test automation frameworks such as Vyper, OPA5, or QUnit, with the ability to define test strategies and influence quality engineering practices across teams.
• Strong understanding in agile development processes; functional knowledge of Procurement/MM or related business domains is an added advantage.
• Ability to lead complex technical problem-solving, drive architectural decisions, and support engineering teams through design reviews, mentoring, and best-practices.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced cloud product environment, with a strong focus on performance, extensibility, maintainability, clean-core compliance, and developer efficiency.

Where you belong?

• At SAP Ariba Procurement, you will join a collaborative, supportive, and high-energy engineering product team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning.
• We collaborate closely through design discussions, code reviews, pair programming, and regular knowledge-sharing sessions.
• You’ll be part of a workplace that values inclusion, respects diverse perspectives, and believes in building strong engineering talent from within.

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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.  

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Requisition ID: 438928  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid