Senior SAP ABAP Consultant

Senior SAP ABAP Consultant

The proposed Senior SAP ABAP Consultant should possess extensive experience in SAP development, technical support, troubleshooting and enhancement of complex SAP environments.

Core ABAP Expertise

• Extensive hands-on experience in ABAP development and maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of ABAP Objects (OO ABAP).
• Development and maintenance of Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows.
• Strong experience with ALV, Smart Forms, SAPscript and Adobe Forms.
• Development and maintenance of BAPIs, Function Modules, RFCs, User Exits, Customer Exits and BAdIs.
• Strong understanding and maintenance of existing custom Z-programs, Z-tables, Z-functions and Z-enhancements.
• Experience analysing and optimising existing custom developments and legacy ABAP code.

SAP Technical Support

• Strong experience in Production support and incident resolution.
• Ability to investigate complex technical issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Debugging of standard and custom ABAP programs.
• Analysis of short dumps (ST22\), system logs (SM21\), job failures (SM37\), locks (SM12\), performance issues and runtime errors.
• Performance analysis and optimisation using tools such as ST05, SAT/SE30 and SQL analysis.
• Troubleshooting issues across SAP application, database and integration layers.
• Experience working within SLA-driven support environments, including priority-based incident management and escalation.

SAP Integration \& Interfaces

• Development and support of SAP interfaces and integrations.
• Strong experience with IDocs, RFCs, BAPIs and web services.
• Experience troubleshooting inbound and outbound interfaces.
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs and integration technologies.
• Experience monitoring and resolving interface failures and data inconsistencies.
• Ability to work with functional and technical teams to identify and resolve integration issues.

SAP Enhancements \& Change Management

• Development of approved SAP enhancements and custom functionality.
• Experience with Enhancement Framework, BAdIs, enhancement points and implicit/explicit enhancements.
• Ability to analyse business requirements and translate them into technically appropriate SAP solutions.
• Experience preparing technical specifications and development documentation.
• Strong understanding of transport management and controlled movement of changes across Development, QA/UAT and Production environments.
• Experience supporting testing, UAT and Production deployment activities.

Modern SAP Development

• Experience with ABAP 7.4/7.5+ syntax and modern ABAP development practices.
• Knowledge of CDS Views and AMDP.
• Experience with OData services and SAP Gateway.
• Exposure to SAP Fiori/UI5 and the technical integration between frontend applications and SAP backend services.
• Knowledge of S/4HANA development principles, including HANA-aware ABAP and code optimisation.
• Understanding of the implications of the S/4HANA data model and simplification principles on existing custom developments.

Database \& Performance

• Strong SQL knowledge and understanding of database performance.
• Experience analysing inefficient database access and ABAP performance bottlenecks.
• Ability to optimise Open SQL and custom programs for SAP HANA environments.
• Experience investigating high CPU, memory, database or runtime consumption caused by custom developments.

Development Governance \& Quality

• Strong understanding of SAP development standards and best practices.
• Experience conducting code reviews and technical quality assessments.
• Ability to assess the technical impact and risks of proposed changes.
• Strong documentation skills.
• Experience working within formal change management, QA/UAT and Production release procedures.
• Ability to maintain technical documentation for custom developments and interfaces.

Additional Requirements

• Proven experience supporting large and/or complex SAP environments.
• Experience working directly with business users, functional consultants and SAP technical teams.
• Ability to work independently on complex incidents while participating in a wider support and escalation structure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Experience working in 24/7 or SLA-based SAP support environments is highly desirable.
• Previous experience in Aviation, Energy, Engineering or other asset-intensive industries would be an advantage.
• Experience working remotely independently would be an advantage.

Minimum Experience

The proposed consultant should ideally have

• 8+ years of SAP ABAP experience;
• Proven experience in SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA environments;
• Significant experience in Production SAP support;
• Demonstrable experience with cu

Pay

₹1,795,812.13 - ₹2,572,194.79 per year

Work Location

In person