Key Responsibilities :

Technical Leadership & Governance :

- Lead and manage the ABAP, Basis, Fiori, and CPI teams, ensuring timely and quality deliverables.

- Define technical standards, development guidelines, and clean-core compliant extensibility frameworks.

- Review technical designs (TDDs), integration specs, and Basis architecture documents.

- Oversee transport management, system landscape strategy, and release planning.

- Ensure adherence to SAP best practices, security guidelines, and coding standards (ATC, SCI, Code Inspector).

Delivery Management :

- Own end-to-end delivery for all technical tracks across S/4HANA and SAP BTP.

- Drive solutioning for change requests, new capabilities, upgrades, and integrations.

- Track progress, mitigate risks, manage technical debt, and ensure smooth cutovers.

- Coordinate with functional, testing, infra, and project management teams.

- Manage vendor teams, contractors, and internal development resources.

ABAP Development Oversight :

- Review custom developments, CDS views, RAP models, enhancements, BADIs, and interfaces.

- Ensure scalable, performance-optimized ABAP solutions aligned with clean core.

- Guide team on S/4HANA simplification items and custom code remediation.

SAP Basis & Infrastructure Oversight :

- Oversee system administration, upgrades, kernel patches, client strategy, and system copies.

- Manage performance tuning, background jobs, transports, and SAProuter/SOAMANAGER configurations.

- Ensure system reliability, HA/DR readiness, and proactive monitoring via Solution Manager/ALM.

- Collaborate with hosting partners for cloud (RISE/IAS/IPS/BTP) infrastructure coordination.

Fiori/UI5 & UX Development :

- Guide Fiori app development, extensibility, and activation of standard SAP Fiori apps.

- Define UX strategy, launchpad configuration, catalogs/groups/roles.

- Ensure adoption of SAP UI5 best practices and design guidelines.

CPI Integration Management :

- Govern all integrations via SAP CPI (Cloud Integration), API Management, Event Mesh.

- Review iFlow designs, connectivity, mappings, error handling, monitoring, and logging.

- Ensure integration security (OAuth, certificates, APIs, Principal Propagation).

Stakeholder & Team Management :

- Collaborate with business, functional, and architecture teams for solution design.

- Present technical proposals, impact assessments, and effort estimations.

- Mentor and upskill team members; drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Required Skills & Experience :

Technical Skills :

- 15+ years of SAP experience with at least 3-5 years in a technical leadership role.

- Deep knowledge of ABAP / ABAP on HANA / CDS / RAP.

- Strong expertise in SAP Basis, including S/4HANA, Solution Manager/ALM, and transport management.

- Hands-on experience in Fiori/UI5 development and Launchpad configuration.

- Extensive knowledge of SAP CPI / API Management / BTP Integration Suite.

- Experience with upgrades, conversions, clean-core implementation, and extensibility.

- Performance tuning and integration optimization expertise.

Leadership & Management Skills :

- Proven ability to manage cross-functional technical teams.

- Strong vendor management and delivery governance experience.

- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

- SAP certifications in ABAP, Basis, Fiori, or BTP/CPI.

- Experience in multi-country rollouts and S/4HANA implementations.

- Background in regulated industries such as Pharma .

- Familiarity with JIRA, CI/CD pipelines, gCTS, and automation tools.

Key Performance Indicators :

- On-time & defect-free delivery of technical objects.

- System performance, availability, and stability.

- Compliance with clean core guidelines and SAP best practices.

- Reduced incidents and improved integration reliability.

- Successful audits (security, SOX, GRC, quality).