SAP ABAP - Technical Architect

Responsibilities

• Individual contributor to work with Functional, Business, and other stakeholders (like validation teams).
• Requirement gathering
• Preparing technical specifications
• Code development and unit testing
• Responsible for Unit testing, Integration test fixes, regression testing, coordination of UAT testing and cut-over activities
• Coordination with team members (including offshore)
• Provide post-deployment support (defect fixing).
• Follow client tools and processes.
• Attend and contribute to all scrum/agile meetings and ceremonies.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks and come up with solutions to improve performance of existing SAP applications using performance tuning techniques (ST05, ST22, ATC, Code Inspector) and implement SAP parallel processing techniques.
• Provide necessary system user training with comprehensive specifications, documentation, test documents and code review, etc.
• Applies advanced principles, theories and concepts in delivering solutions. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas.

Skill set required

• Excellent knowledge and working experience of Object-Oriented ABAP, Model View Controllers (MVC) architecture, and ABAP objects design patterns.
• Must have proved experience in building integrations around SAP R/3 suite of products using Cross Application (ALE/EDI/IDOC/BAPI’s/SAP Proxies) modules.
• Should have expertise in developing ABAP RICEFs (Reports/ALV Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, workflows and Enhancements, Forms – SMARTFORMS, SAP Script), Enhancement
• techniques like User exits, Customer Exits, Implicit and Explicit Enhancements, BADIs, BTE and VOFM routines.
• Experience in SAP End to End implementation, roll-out, production support, and enhancement and upgrade projects.
• Must have expertise of performance tuning, testing and optimization of objects. Should have worked on SQL trace, Runtime analysis and SCI.
• Should have good working knowledge on ABAP dictionary tools like Tables, Data Elements, Domains, Views, Structures, Search Help, and Lock Objects, search help etc.
• Must have experience of scheduling/ Analyzing background Jobs.
• Should be able to coordinate between the onsite functional team, client and the offshore technical team.
• Working knowledge in agile methodology is mandatory.
• Exposure to S4 HANA implementation project.
• Experience with ABAP RESTful application programming model (RAP)
• Working experience on CDS View, AMDP and OData services.
• Understanding of SAP BTP and its various environments (e.g., ABAP environment, Cloud Foundry).
• Experience with side-by-side extensibility scenarios on BTP.
• Knowledge of the Clean Core approach and its benefits.
• Experience in identifying and addressing custom code dependencies for Clean Core.
• Familiarity with tools and techniques for custom code migration to BTP
• Experience in developing Fiori applications, including OData services.
• Familiarity with Fiori Elements framework.