Senior ABAP Development Analysts

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What You Can Expect

The ABAP Senior Development Analyst is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and supporting complex SAP solutions within the Enterprise Applications portfolio. This role provides deep ABAP expertise, leads complex development efforts, and serves as an escalation point while partnering closely with Functional Analysts, Architects, and cross-functional IT teams. The role focuses on solution quality, performance optimization, and modernization across SAP ECC and S/4HANA environments including S/4HANA‑optimized design, clean‑core aligned custom development, and responsible use of AI‑assisted development and analysis tools under established enterprise standards. This is an individual contributor role.

The role leverages AI assisted development and analysis tools to improve understanding of complex ABAP solutions, accelerate development, and support solution quality within established enterprise standards.

Work Location: Bangalore

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days in office)

Shift Timing - 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

How You'll Create Impact

SAP Application Development & Design

Design, develop, and enhance complex SAP solutions using ABAP and OO-ABAP

Build and maintain advanced RICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms)

Develop S/4HANA-optimized ABAP, including CDS Views, performance tuning, and refactoring of legacy code

Produce technical designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards

AI Assisted Development & Modernization

Leverage AI enabled development and analysis tools to accelerate comprehension of complex ABAP solutions and improve code quality within defined enterprise guardrails

Apply AI-assisted analysis to understand complex or legacy ABAP code and identify performance, modernization, or S/4HANA compatibility considerations

Apply AI assisted insights to support clean core aligned development, avoiding unnecessary customizations and upgrade unsafe patterns

Validate and review AI generated code or recommendations to ensure traceability, correctness, and production readiness

Integration & Data Enablement

Develop and support integrations using IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, OData services, and APIs

Partner with middleware teams (e.g., SAP CPI / PI / PO) to ensure reliable and secure integrations

Support enterprise reporting, analytics, and data consistency initiatives

Quality, Testing & Production Support

Lead unit testing and support integration and user acceptance testing

Act as a senior escalation point for complex production defects and incidents

Perform data‑driven root‑cause analysis, leveraging available analytics and AI‑assisted tools to identify recurring defect patterns and systemic issues

Contribute to proactive defect reduction by identifying high‑risk components, regression‑prone custom code, and performance bottlenecks

Ensure compliant transport and release management across environments

Leverage AI-assisted analysis to support root-cause investigations, identify recurring defect patterns, and reduce repeat incidents

Use AI-assisted tooling to support unit, integration, or regression testing efforts, validating all outputs prior to use

Collaboration & Mentorship

Partner closely with Functional Leads (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, HR) and Business Systems Analysts

Provide technical guidance and informal mentoring to junior ABAP developers

Contribute to development standards, documentation, and best practices

What Makes You Stand Out

Core SAP & ABAP Technologies

ABAP/4, Advanced OO-ABAP, BAS

SAP S/4HANA & ECC development and optimization concepts

ABAP Dictionary, Enhancements, User Exits, BADIs

Fiori UI5 front-end

CDS Views, AMDP, SQLScript

Reporting & Forms

ALV, SmartForms, Adobe Forms, SAP Scripts

Integration & Interfaces

IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs

OData Services, REST APIs

Development & Lifecycle Management

SAP GUI, ABAP Development Tools (ADT / Eclipse)

Transport Management System (TMS)

Version control and DevOps tooling (e.g., Git, CI/CD concepts)

Platforms & Databases

SAP HANA, Oracle, SQLServer – with SQL & performance tuning fundamentals

SAP BTP (Integration Suite, Extension Suite – exposure required)

ABAP on Cloud / Steampunk concepts (preferred)

Exposure to cloud-enabled SAP environments (e.g., RISE with SAP)

Your Background

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years total SAP development experience

Experience supporting Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM/SD), Manufacturing (PP/QM), or HR/HCM modules

Backend enablement for SAP Fiori/UI5 applications

Experience working in regulated or SOX-controlled environments

Experience with Agile or hybrid delivery models

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

6–9 years of hands-on SAP ABAP development experience in enterprise environments

4+ years supporting SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA platforms

4+ years supporting production-critical SAP applications, including enhancements and defect resolution

Demonstrated experience delivering complex, cross-functional SAP solutions

EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability