Lead SAP ABAP Developer
Innovation is and will always be the core of SAP Fioneer , and it is the promise of why we were spun out of SAP: agility, innovation, and delivery.
SAP Fioneer builds on a heritage of outstanding technology and a deep understanding of corporate and consumer demands. At the heart of it all it is simple: We bring financial services to the next level with innovative software solutions and platforms.
We are helping companies in the financial services industry to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency through digital business innovation, cloud technology, and solutions that cover banking and insurance processes end-to-end.
A global company, with rapid growth, innovative people, and a lean organization makes SAP Fioneer a place where you accelerate your future!
About role
As a Lead SAP ABAP Engineer you will drive the backend architecture and delivery of our cloud-based SaaS platform built on S/4HANA and SAP BTP technologies. You will design, develop and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance components, own technical decisions, and ensure clean‑core, upgrade‑safe extensibility across our Fioneer solutions. In this role you will lead and mentor a small team of ABAP engineers, collaborate closely with product owners, UX/Fiori leads and cross-functional stakeholders, and translate business needs into robust backend APIs, CDS/OData services and integration patterns.
If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, shaping architecture, and growing engineering talent while contributing to a next‑generation SaaS platform, this role is for you.
Responsibilities
- Design, own and govern the architecture of scalable, secure backend components for innovative lending solutions built on ABAP and related SAP technologies.
- Define technical direction, coding standards, and best practices; drive adoption of clean‑core, upgrade‑safe extension patterns across teams.
- Lead implementation efforts, review designs and code, and ensure delivery of high‑quality standard software in an agile environment while collaborating with internal stakeholders, customers and partners.
- Partner strategically with front‑end developers, designers, and product owners to define end‑to‑end solutions, APIs (CDS/OData) and integration patterns.
- Diagnose, prioritize and resolve complex technical issues; coordinate incident response and post‑mortem actions to prevent recurrence.
- Ensure engineering excellence through structured testing strategies (unit, integration, UAT support), CI/CD pipelines, automated quality checks, performance tuning and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and grow ABAP engineers: conduct code reviews, provide technical coaching, run knowledge‑sharing sessions and support career development.
- Create, maintain and approve comprehensive technical documentation, runbooks and architectural artefacts.
- Drive platform readiness for cloud deployments, oversee security, observability and governance, and lead upgrade/migration planning.
- Stay current with innovations in S/4HANA, RAP and SAP BTP and evaluate their adoption to advance the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in ABAP object-oriented development, with substantial hands‑on work on S/4HANA (experience in the financial sector is a plus).
- Proven track record (3+ years) leading and mentoring engineering teams, driving technical decisions and delivery in enterprise SAP projects.
- Deep proficiency in OData, Core Data Services (CDS), and ABAP RESTful Application Programming (RAP).
- Practical experience with SAP BTP (services, deployment approaches, integration concepts) and cloud readiness for enterprise solutions.
- Strong architecture and design skills: defining extension patterns, clean‑core strategies, multi‑tenant SaaS considerations, and upgrade‑safe solutions.
- Experience with CI/CD for ABAP, automated testing strategies,