Sap Technical Lead

Ford Ford · Auto · Dearborn, MI +1 · Enterprise Technology

This role is for a SAP Technical Lead focused on building side-by-side extensions using SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and modern ABAP development paradigms like ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP). Responsibilities include API development, BTP extension development, modern ABAP coding, data modeling with CDS Views and HANA, collaboration with other teams, testing, and performance tuning. Requires 8+ years of SAP ABAP development experience, with strong RAP and S/4HANA extensibility expertise.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and expose robust, secure, and scalable SAP APIs (OData v2/v4, RESTful APIs, SOAP, RFCs, and BAPIs) to support seamless integration with external applications.
  2. Develop side-by-side and on-stack extensions on SAP BTP (using the SAP BTP ABAP Environment / Steampunk) to keep the core S/4HANA ERP clean.
  3. Write clean, optimized, and modern Object-Oriented ABAP (OO-ABAP) code. Develop business objects and services using RAP (ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model).
  4. Create and optimize complex Core Data Services (CDS) Views, Table Functions, and AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures) on SAP HANA.
  5. Partner closely with middleware teams (SAP Integration Suite / CPI), frontend developers (SAPUI5/Fiori), and business analysts to translate functional integration requirements into technical designs.

Skills

Required

  • SAP ABAP development
  • SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
  • ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
  • OData
  • RESTful APIs
  • SOAP
  • RFCs
  • BAPIs
  • CDS Views
  • AMDP
  • SAP HANA
  • Eclipse ADT
  • S/4HANA Extensibility

Nice to have

  • SAP Certified Development Specialist - ABAP for SAP HANA
  • SAP Certified Development Associate - ABAP with SAP BTP
  • SAP CAP
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • AI assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor)
  • SAP Event Mesh
  • event-driven architecture

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP ABAP development
  • Proven, hands-on project experience implementing business objects and services using the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
  • Strong working knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) extension concepts