Senior Manager - Global SAP ABAP & BTP Development Lead

Xylem; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Xylem is seeking a senior SAP technical leader to guide global ABAP and BTP initiatives across onshore and offshore teams. You will own the extensibility framework, CI/CD pipelines, and a clean-core strategy to deliver scalable SAP solutions on S/4HANA.

Lead the engineering standards, release governance, and architecture for BTP, CAP/RAP, and APIs, while partnering with business leads to drive value and modernization.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in SAP technical development and leadership
• Deep ABAP expertise including ABAP for Cloud, RAP, CDS, OData, AMDP
• Proven SAP BTP delivery with CAP/RAP, Integration Suite, Event Mesh, security models
• Demonstrated clean-core implementation on S/4HANA and reducing custom footprint
• Experience with SAP Fiori/UI5 development and extensibility
• Strong transport and release management in multi-wave deployments
• Ability to defend architectural choices in business terms

Responsibilities

• Lead global ABAP and BTP engineering teams across onshore and offshore.
• Own the technical backlog, capacity planning, and delivery commitments.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, performance, security, ATC, testing, and docs.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, transport governance, and release management.
• Own extensibility decision framework and approvals for in-core enhancements.
• Drive extensions to user and developer extensibility on BTP and APIs.

Skills

ABAP

RAP

CDS views

OData

BTP

UI5

Code quality automation

CI/CD

S/4HANA

Tools

SAP Fiori

ATC

GRC

Job description

Xylem is a Fortune 500 global water solutions company dedicated to advancing sustainable impact and empowering the people who make water work every day. As a leading water technology company with 23,000 employees operating in over 150 countries, Xylem is at the forefront of addressing the world's most critical water challenges. We invite passionate individuals to join our team, dedicated to exceeding customer expectations through innovative and sustainable solutions.

This role provides leadership for custom application development, integrations, extensions, automation, and innovation capabilities within the SAP ecosystem. The position ensures all enhancements are developed using modern SAP architecture principles while minimizing technical debt and preserving clean-core strategies. As guardian of SAP extensibility and platform innovation, the role enables business differentiation without compromising system stability. The leader drives adoption of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) capabilities to accelerate digital innovation and future scalability. This capability is essential to ensure the transformed ERP environment remains adaptable to evolving business requirements.

Development leadership

• Lead a global ABAP and BTP engineering team across onshore and offshore, spanning template build, deployment wave support, and sustaining engineering.
• Own the technical backlog, capacity plan, and delivery commitments across product domains, working directly with functional solution owners and process leads.
• Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, performance, security, ATC checks, peer review, unit testing, and documentation.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, transport governance, and release management across the landscape, with quality gates enforced in the pipeline rather than in review meetings.

Clean core custodianship

• Own the extensibility decision framework and act as approval authority for any classical modification or in-core enhancement, with escalation rather than absorption when the standard is challenged.
• Drive extensions to key-user and developer extensibility, side-by-side on BTP, and released SAP APIs and BAdIs.
• Own custom code lifecycle management: inventory, usage analytics, remediation, retirement, and continuous reduction of the custom footprint. Custom code is a liability with a carrying cost, and you own the trend line.
• Ensure the landscape stays upgrade-ready so RISE release cycles and innovation adoption remain routine.

BTP platform ownership

• Own the BTP architecture and its services - Integration Suite, Build, Application Development (CAP/RAP), Event Mesh, Workflow, Business Rules, and Datasphere where relevant.
• Establish BTP governance: subaccount and space design, entitlement management, identity and authorization, DevOps tooling, and cost transparency by consumer.
• Build the API and event layer that exposes core business capability safely to satellite applications, partners, and AI services.
• Provide the technical foundation for AI and agent enablement - Joule extensibility, AI Core and AI Foundation services, and integration patterns that are production-grade rather than demo-grade.

Reusable assets and enablement

• Build and maintain the golden path: reference architectures, code templates, integration patterns, security patterns, and shared services that teams consume rather than rebuild.
• Support deployment waves through interface build, conversion support objects, performance tuning, and hypercare defect resolution.
• Partner with security on authorization design, SoD-safe development, and evidence generation through GRC.
• Manage system integrator and AMS partner engineering quality, staffing continuity, and adherence to Xylem standards.

Qualifications

Required

• 15+ years in SAP technical development, with at least 5 years leading global engineering teams.
• Deep, current, hands-on ABAP expertise: ABAP for Cloud, RAP, CDS views, OData, AMDP, OO ABAP, and performance optimization on HANA. You must still be able to read and judge code, not only manage people who write it.
• Proven SAP BTP delivery: CAP or RAP applications, Integration Suite, Event Mesh, and BTP security and identity models in production.
• Demonstrated clean core implementation on S/4HANA, with a track record of reducing custom footprint rather than simply documenting it.
• Experience with SAP Fiori and UI5 development and extensibility.
• Strong command of ATC, custom code migration tooling, and code quality automation.
• Transport and release management at scale across multi-wave global deployments.
• Ability to hold an architectural line under business and partner pressure, with the credibility to explain the cost of an exception in business terms.

Preferred

• RISE with SAP private or public cloud experience.
• SAP Cloud ALM, Signavio, and Datasphere familiarity.
• AI and ML integration on BTP, including AI Core, AI Foundation, and Joule extensibility.
• Manufacturing or indus