SAP Developer Expert

Opella; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Opella is seeking an experienced SAP ABAP Developer (S/4HANA) to lead best-practice ABAP development across CDS, OData and Fiori/UI5. The role focuses on scalable technical solutions, governance, and UX enhancements while guiding BAU and project work.

You will mentor teams, drive architecture definitions, and ensure knowledge sharing across domains. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on ABAP, CDS, OData and SAP BTP CAP experience, with strong collaboration, presentation, and Agile delivery

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on SAP ABAP Development experience, including SAP S4HANA implementation and lifecycle projects.
• Expertise in CDS, Workflow, ABAP OO, ODATA, FORMs, Enhancements and Interfaces is mandatory.
• Understanding of SAP BTP, CAP developments is an added advantage.
• Knowledge of IT service management tools (ITIL, ServiceNow, Solman, JIRA).
• Familiarity with Scrum, Agile and Digital methodologies; strong presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build development best practices and standards for S4HANA ABAP, RICEFW, CDS, ODATA, HANA, Fiori/UI5 and BTP CAP.
• Develop reusable objects in CDS, ABAP methods, FM modules and custom BAPIs.
• Maintain FIORI system architecture guidelines and development setup.
• Propose UX design improvements for FMCH solutions with latest features.
• Suggest technical solutions and support ABAP RICEFW in BAU and projects.
• Identify issues, prioritize with stakeholders, and drive production issue closure.
• Use development and code quality tools (ATC, VForge, Code Inspector) effectively.
• Document solutions and enable knowledge transfer and upskilling within the team.

Skills

SAP ABAP Development

S/4HANA

ABAP OO

CDS

OData

Fiori/UI5

HANA

BTP CAP

ADT / ABAP Development Tools

Code quality tools (ATC / Code Inspect

ITIL / ServiceNow / Solman / JIRA

Agile / Scrum

Tools

ATC

VForge

Code Inspector

Job description

About the Company

Opella is a global consumer healthcare company, focused on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and self-care products. Opella is currently the third-largest player globally in the OTC and vitamins & supplements market and operates in over 100 countries. The company has a workforce of around 11,000 employees and a strong portfolio of more than 100 well-known brands, including Allegra, Dulcolax, and Doliprane.

About the Role

This role is responsible for driving SAP S/4HANA ABAP development excellence by establishing best practices, standards, and reusable solutions across technologies like ABAP OO, CDS, OData, HANA, Fiori/UI5, and BTP CAP. The position involves designing scalable technical solutions, resolving defects, enhancing UX, and ensuring high-quality code through governance tools. It also includes leading technical strategy, supporting project and BAU developments, managing system architecture, and enabling team capability through documentation, knowledge sharing, and continuous upskilling.

Responsibilities

• Build development best practices, support to define standards and norms for S4HANA developments on ABAP OO, RICEFW, CDS, ODATA, HANA, Fiori/UI5 developments, as well as BTP CAP developments.
• Ability to develop reusable objects in CDS, ABAP methods, Functional modules, custom BAPIs that would save development time and redundancy of code.
• Responsible for maintenance of best practices of the FIORI system architecture, development setup guidelines.
• Responsible for proposing best in class UX design for our FMCH solutions and bringing in the latest and optimal features, tools in UX implementation.
• Ability to propose technical solutions, resolve technical defects, support for technical solutioning for ABAP RICEFW Objects in BAU and projects.
• Propose strategy to identify issues and prioritize by engaging with relevant stakeholders, align on action plans to drive to closure of fixing the issue for production environments.
• Expertise on usage of Development and Code quality tools such as ATC, VForge, Code inspector.
• Ensure solution documentation & capitalization of knowledge, ability to organize knowledge transfer within a team and upskilling as required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of hands-on work experience on SAP ABAP Development, including experience in SAP S4HANA implementation and lifecycle projects.
• Expertise in CDS, Workflow, ABAP OO, ODATA, FORMs, Enhancements and Interfaces is mandatory.
• Understanding of SAP BTP, CAP developments are added advantage.
• Knowledge in IT service management and tools (ITIL, ServiceNow, Solman, JIRA).
• Knowledge in Scrum, Agile and Digital methodologies.
• At ease with Microsoft Office tools and having good presentation skills.
• Knowledge of technical development trends and roadmap in SAP.

Required Skills

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment.
• Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset.
• Adaptable and open to change.
• Team player, service-oriented.
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• With leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven.
• Role model our 4 values: teamwork, integrity, respect, courage.

Preferred Skills

• We are looking for S4HANA ABAP Development expert who has strong hands-on expertise in following technologies:
• ABAP on S4HANA, RICEFW Developments, Workflow and BRF+, Strong ABAP OO, CDS, Native HANA, SAP BTP, ABAP Development Tools (ADT), Code Performance Rules and Optimization, database Procedures, SAP FIORI Architecture.
• Strong understanding of Integration technologies (ALE/RFC/Idocs, Webservices, OData, Tibco, Informatica, RFC/IDoc, SOAP, RESTful).