SAP ABAP Application Developer

MSCI Inc; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

MSCI Inc. is seeking an experienced SAP ABAP developer to design, develop, and maintain SAP ABAP solutions across modules. You will work closely with functional consultants and integration teams to deliver scalable, high-quality developments.

The role covers reports, interfaces, enhancements, forms, and workflows, plus S/4HANA-related work with CDS views and AMDPs where applicable. You will ensure best practices, performance optimization, and contribute to testing, documentation, and production

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of SAP ABAP development experience.
• Experience in at least one end-to-end SAP implementation.
• Experience in support, enhancement, and rollout projects.
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA projects preferred.
• Experience working in global delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SAP ABAP solutions for business requirements.
• Build custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
• Support SAP implementation, enhancement, rollout, and production support activities.
• Collaborate with functional consultants to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure development follows SAP best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, technical documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely defect resolution.
• Support system upgrades, migrations, and S/4HANA transformation initiatives.

Skills

ABAP Programming

OOABAP

ALV Reports

Module Pool

SmartForms

SAP Scripts

Adobe Forms

DDIC

BAPIs

RFC

IDocs

ALE

Enhancements

BADIs

User Exits

Enhancement Framework

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or related

Job description

Team Responsibilities

The SAP ABAP team is responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining SAP technical solutions that support enterprise business processes. The team works closely with functional consultants, business stakeholders, and integration teams to deliver scalable, high-quality SAP developments across various SAP modules.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and maintain SAP ABAP solutions for business requirements.
• Build custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
• Support SAP implementation, enhancement, rollout, and production support activities.
• Collaborate with functional consultants to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ensure development follows SAP best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization.
• Participate in code reviews, technical documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely defect resolution.
• Support system upgrades, migrations, and S/4HANA transformation initiatives.

Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Development

• Develop custom ABAP programs including:
  • Reports (Classical, Interactive, ALV)
  • Module Pool Programs
  • Interfaces
  • Enhancements
  • User Exits
  • Customer Exits
  • BAdIs
  • Enhancement Framework
• Develop SmartForms, SAP Scripts, Adobe Forms.
• Build and maintain RFCs, BAPIs, IDocs, ALE interfaces, Proxy/Web Services.
• Develop File-based interfaces using Application Server and Middleware.
• Develop CDS Views and AMDPs where applicable.
• Build OData Services using SAP Gateway.

Technical Design

• Prepare Technical Design Documents (TDDs).
• Estimate development effort.
• Review functional specifications and provide technical solutions.
• Ensure reusable and scalable development.

Integration & Collaboration

• Work closely with SAP Functional Consultants (FI, MM, SD, PP, WM, etc.).
• Collaborate with Basis, Security, Integration, and Infrastructure teams.
• Support SIT, UAT, and Production deployment activities.

Quality & Performance

• Perform code optimization and performance tuning.
• Conduct peer code reviews.
• Ensure compliance with SAP development standards.
• Maintain transport management and version control.

Production Support

• Analyze production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Implement fixes and enhancements.
• Support release management activities.

Skills & ExpertiseCore SAP ABAP

• Strong ABAP Programming
• Object-Oriented ABAP (OOABAP)
• ALV Reports
• Module Pool Programming
• SmartForms
• SAP Scripts
• Adobe Forms
• Data Dictionary (DDIC)
• Function Modules
• BAPIs
• RFC
• IDocs
• ALE
• Enhancements
• BADIs
• User Exits
• Enhancement Framework

SAP Integration

• Interfaces
• File Interfaces
• Web Services
• SOAP
• REST APIs
• OData Services
• SAP Gateway

SAP S/4HANA

Preferred experience in:

• CDS Views
• AMDP
• Code Pushdown concepts
• HANA Performance Optimization
• Eclipse ADT
• ABAP on HANA

Development Practices

• Technical Documentation
• Unit Testing
• Debugging
• Performance Tuning
• Transport Management
• Code Reviews
• Production Support

Preferred Functional Exposure

Experience supporting one or more SAP modules:

• Finance (FI)
• Controlling (CO)
• Materials Management (MM)
• Sales & Distribution (SD)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Warehouse Management / EWM
• Human Capital Management (HCM)
• Plant Maintenance (PM)

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Stakeholder management
• Ability to work independently
• Team collaboration
• Agile/Scrum exposure
• Ability to manage multiple priorities

Experience

• 7–10 years of SAP ABAP development experience.
• Experience in at least one end-to-end SAP implementation.
• Experience in support, enhancement, and rollout projects.
• Exposure to SAP S/4HANA projects is highly preferred.
• Experience working in global delivery environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• SAP ABAP Certification (preferred).
• SAP S/4HANA ABAP certification (preferred).