SAP S/4HANA ABAP Technical Consultant / Technical Lead - Deployment

GC Technologies Pvt Ltd · India

Job Title: SAP S/4HANA ABAP – Senior SME / Technical Lead

Role: SAP S/4HANA ABAP Technical Consultant / Technical Lead – Deployment

Responsibilities: We are looking for a senior SAP S/4HANA ABAP professional with 12–15+ years of relevant experience who can independently lead ABAP technical delivery for SAP S/4HANA implementation, conversion, or global rollout programs. The role requires strong customer-facing ownership, deep ABAP and S/4HANA extensibility expertise, and the ability to guide teams through design, build, testing, and cutover with high quality.

• Lead end-to-end ABAP technical delivery for SAP S/4HANA programs (Greenfield / Brownfield / Global Rollouts) as Senior SME / Technical Lead
• Own technical solution design, estimates, and execution across WRICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, Workflows)
• Drive S/4HANA extensibility strategy: key-user extensibility, developer extensibility, and clean-core principles
• Build and optimize ABAP developments using modern ABAP (7.4+), OOP, CDS views, and performance best practices
• Lead integration developments using IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, OData/SAP Gateway, REST/SOAP APIs, and event-based patterns where applicable
• Guide remediation efforts for ECC custom code adaptation to S/4HANA (simplification items, ATC checks, SQL performance, deprecated objects)
• Lead technical workshops with customers to clarify requirements, propose solution options, and finalize designs
• Own code quality, peer reviews, transport governance, and DevOps/CI-CD alignment (where applicable)
• Support SIT/UAT defect resolution, cutover activities, and hypercare stabilization
• Mentor developers, manage technical risks, and act as escalation point for complex issues

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary ABAP technical SME for the customer and program leadership
• Create and govern technical architecture/design documents and build standards
• Strong hands-on expertise in Core ABAP, ABAP OO, ALV, Enhancements (BAdI/User-Exit), Forms (Adobe/Smartforms), and Workflows
• Develop CDS Views, AMDP (as needed), and support ABAP for Fiori/OData enablement
• Drive interface and integration build with middleware (SAP CPI/PI/PO or equivalent) and external systems
• Ensure performance tuning: SQL optimization, parallelization approaches, batch jobs, and memory analysis
• Collaborate with functional, data, basis, security, and testing teams to ensure end-to-end delivery

Requirements:

• Minimum 12–15+ years of SAP ABAP experience with strong focus on SAP S/4HANA deployments
• Minimum 3 full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations/conversions/rollouts with significant custom build responsibility
• Strong skills in Core ABAP, ABAP OO, ALV, BAPI, BAdI, Enhancements, ALE/IDocs, RFC, and Debugging
• Experience with S/4HANA adaptation and remediation (ATC, simplification items, custom code analysis)
• Experience with CDS Views, OData/SAP Gateway, and ABAP for Fiori enablement
• Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to lead customer discussions independently and drive technical decisions

Project-Specific Requirements:

• Strong experience in developing technical designs and estimating ABAP work for large S/4 programs
• Hands-on experience building integrations (IDocs / APIs) and supporting data migration conversions
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum or SAFe delivery models
• Ability to coordinate multi-vendor teams and manage delivery dependencies
• Experience supporting cutover planning, mock loads, and go-live readiness

Account Context:

• Customer interviews are scenario and solution driven
• Strong focus on S/4HANA ABAP clean-core mindset, design decisions, and delivery leadership
• Expectation to articulate ECC vs S/4 custom code impacts and remediation approach
• Candidate must demonstrate ownership, strong communication, and confidence in customer-facing discussions
• Evaluation is technical depth + architecture mindset + leadership (no generic Q&A)

Environment: SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP (as applicable), SAP Gateway/OData, Integration (CPI/PI/PO or equivalent)