SAP ABAP HANA Consultant

Required Technical Skills

SAP ABAP

• 11+ years of hands-on experience in SAP ABAP development.
• Strong expertise in ABAP Objects (OO ABAP).
• Excellent knowledge of reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
• Strong experience with BAdIs, User Exits, Customer Exits, Enhancement Framework, and implicit/explicit enhancements.
• Good understanding of ABAP debugging and performance optimization.
• Experience developing reusable and maintainable ABAP solutions.

SAP HANA

• Strong hands-on experience in SAP HANA development and optimization.
• Experience with ABAP on HANA.
• Strong knowledge of CDS Views and data modelling.
• Experience with AMDP.
• Understanding of HANA database concepts, SQL, and performance optimization.
• Ability to develop HANA-optimized applications following S/4HANA best practices.

RAP Mandatory

• Hands-on experience with RAP (RESTful Application Programming Model) is mandatory.
• Strong understanding of RAP architecture and programming model.
• Experience developing RAP Business Objects.
• Hands-on experience with:
• CDS-based data models
• Behavior Definitions
• Behavior Implementations
• Service Definitions
• Service Bindings
• Determinations
• Validations
• Actions
• Draft-enabled applications
• Managed and Unmanaged RAP scenarios
• Experience exposing RAP services through OData V4.
• Experience developing transactional applications using RAP.
• Good understanding of RAP authorization and extensibility concepts.

CDS & OData

• Strong experience in developing ABAP CDS Views.
• Knowledge of CDS annotations, associations, compositions, and analytical capabilities.
• Experience developing and consuming OData services.
• Good understanding of OData V2 and OData V4.
• Experience integrating backend services with SAP Fiori/UI5 applications.

SAP S/4HANA & Modern Development

• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA architecture and development principles.
• Experience in S/4HANA custom code migration and remediation.
• Knowledge of Clean Core principles.
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA extensibility.
• Experience with released APIs and standard SAP objects.
• Knowledge of modern SAP development approaches and cloud-ready solutions.

Integration & Development

• Experience developing SAP interfaces and integration solutions.
• Good understanding of RFC, BAPI, IDoc, Web Services, OData, and APIs.
• Experience integrating SAP with external systems.
• Knowledge of SAP integration technologies and middleware is an advantage.
• Experience working with SAP Fiori/UI5 backend services is preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, rollout, or upgrade projects.
• Experience with SAP Fiori and UI5 integration.
• Knowledge of SAP BTP and side-by-side extensibility.
• Exposure to ABAP Cloud is an advantage.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, or modern DevOps practices is preferred.
• Knowledge of SAP Cloud Application Programming concepts is an advantage.
• Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Senior-Level Responsibilities

As a senior technical resource, the candidate will be expected to:

• Provide technical leadership for ABAP HANA development activities.
• Review technical designs and ensure alignment with SAP architecture standards.
• Mentor junior and mid-level ABAP developers.
• Conduct technical/code reviews and ensure development quality.
• Identify opportunities to improve application performance and maintainability.
• Drive adoption of modern SAP development practices such as RAP, CDS, Clean Core, and S/4HANA extensibility.
• Collaborate with architects and functional teams to deliver scalable and sustainable SAP solutions.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• SAP technical certifications in ABAP, S/4HANA, or SAP HANA will be an added advantage.

Key Mandatory Skills

SAP ABAP | SAP HANA | ABAP on HANA | RAP (Mandatory) | CDS Views | OData | AMDP | SAP S/4HANA | OO ABAP | Clean Core | S/4HANA Extensibility