JOB SUMMARY :

We are seeking an experienced SAP ABAP HR Technical Leader to drive outcome-focused, customer-centric engineering across Product Engineering organization. This role combines deep hands-on expertise in SAP HR and payroll with strong technical leadership, guiding teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions through iterative and agile practices. The incumbent will act as a technical advocate, mentor engineering teams, collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders, and ensure engineering excellence across design, development, integration, and deployment. With a strong focus on craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and modern DevSecOps practices, this role plays a critical part in delivering innovative HR and payroll solutions that power clients internal and go-to-market platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Outcome-Driven Accountability : Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Lead engineering teams to deliver solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, lean designs and implementations.

- Technical Leadership and Advocacy : Serve as the technical advocate for products and engineering teams, promoting and supporting evolutionary releases (e.g., alpha, beta, MVP). Ensure proper planning, code integrity, quality, alignment with customer goals, architecture designs, and NFRs.

- Engineering Craftsmanship : Possess passion and experience as an individual contributor, responsible for fostering a culture of engineering excellence within the team, being hands-on with design, configuration and/or code part of the time, contributing to team velocity. Work daily with the engineering teams to resolve any issues, blockers, or impediments, perform code reviews and optimizations, maintain coding standards compliance, and ensure that technical debt is addressed continuously within sprints to achieve comprehensive quality. Be self-driven to learn new technologies, experiment with engineers, and inspire the teams to learn and drive application of those new technologies. Mentor and coach product engineering team to cultivate and nurture strong masters of crafts with passion towards product outcomes.

- Customer-Centric Engineering : Lead engineering teams to develop lean solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams to deliver the right solution for the product in the right way at the right time.

- Incremental and Iterative Delivery : Exhibit a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration : Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.

- Advanced Technical Proficiency : Possess deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, deployment techniques like Blue-Green, Canary to minimize down-time and enable A/B testing approaches. Act as a Role-Model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery, ensuring high-quality outcomes with minimal waste. Demonstrate proficiency in product development, from conceptualization and design to implementation and scaling, with a focus on continuous improvement and learning.

- Domain Expertise : Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business and user needs into engineering plans (e.g., sprint plans, enables, tasks, priorities). Navigate various enterprise functions such as business and enabling areas as well as product, experience, delivery, infrastructure, and security to drive product value and feasibility as well as alignment with organizational goals.

- Effective Communication and Influence : Exhibit exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Inspire and influence stakeholders at all levels through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence, evaluations, and research. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.

- Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation : Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels, from team members to senior executives. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATION :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree (e.g., MS) preferred but not required.

- 6+ years of hands-on experience in SAP ABAP HR development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS :

- Deep expertise in SAP HR modules, with a strong background in payroll schema, rules, and custom function development.

- Proven experience designing and implementing custom solutions for HR processes, including payroll calculations, data integration, and reporting.

- Extensive hands-on experience with :

a. SAP Reports (including ALV)

b. Interfaces (file-based; IDOC, ALE preferred)

c. Enhancements (User Exits, Customer Exits, BADI; BTE and Enhancement Framework a plus)

d. Forms (SAP Scripts, Smart Forms; Adobe Forms preferred)

e. Conversions (BDC, BAPI; LSMW a plus)

f. HR ABAP (Forms, Enhancements, Interfaces, Exits, Function Modules, Payroll Operations/Functions, Data Replication)

- Advanced knowledge of SAP Gateway, OData, and Enterprise Services.

- Strong experience with ALE/IDOCs, BIB Interface, Adobe Forms, RFCs, BAPIs, and Data Dictionary elements.

- Proficient in ATC and code inspector configurations, performance tuning, enhancements, and modifications.

- Hands-on experience with SAP UI technologies (Fiori/UI5), including :

a. Development of Fiori applications (FreeStyle SAPUI5/Fiori Elements)

- Experience with Business Integration Builder (BIB) framework for employee data replication and integration.

- Familiarity with SAP BTP Services (CI, API, Discovery Centre) and connectivity between BTP and ECC (Destination Service, Connectivity Service, Cloud Connector).

- Knowledge of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central.

OPERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Support and coordinate efforts of Subject Matter Experts, Development, QA, Usability, Training, Transport Management, and other internal resources for successful system enhancements and fixes.

- Contribute to the development of standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency across projects.

- Oversee the creation and maintenance of internal documentation and end-user training materials.

SOFT SKILLS :

- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.

- Ability to manage diverse situations, complex projects, and shift priorities with passion, empathy, and care.