Development Expert ABAP

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What youll Build

At SAP Ariba Procurement Product Team our mission is to provide the worlds 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 this role youll:

• 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 SAPs AI services to revolutionize user experiences and automation.
• Design high-performance globally distributed architectures using SAPs 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 (Bachelors 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.
• Youll be part of a workplace that values inclusion respects diverse perspectives and believes in building strong engineering talent from within.

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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