Senior Manager — Global SAP ABAP & BTP Development Lead

Ebro Electronic GmbH; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 5,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Xylem Water Solutions Netherlands sucht eine erfahrene Führungskraft als Senior Manager SAP ABAP & BTP Development Lead. Sie leiten weltweit ein ABAP- und BTP-Engineering-Team, gestalten Architekturen, verbessern die Core-Strategie und treiben die SAP-Cloud-Entwicklung voran.

Sie setzen Standards für Code-Qualität, Sicherheit und CI/CD, arbeiten eng mit Fachbereichen zusammen und sichern eine upgrade-feste Plattform. Fokus auf Clean Core und Skalierung.

Qualifications

• 15+ Jahre SAP-Entwicklungserfahrung, davon ≥5 Jahre globale Teamführung.
• Tiefgehende ABAP-Expertise: ABAP for Cloud, RAP, CDS-Views, OData, AMDP, OO ABAP; Performance-Optimierung auf HANA.
• Nachweisliche SAP BTP-Lieferung: CAP/RAP, Integration Suite, Event Mesh; BTP-Sicherheit und Identity-Modelle.

Responsibilities

• Leitung eines globalen ABAP- und BTP-Engineering-Teams, Onshore/Offshore; Backlog, Kapazitätsplanung, Lieferverpflichtungen.
• Festlegung von Code-Qualität, Tests, Sicherheits-ATC, CI/CD-Governance; Release-Management.

Skills

ABAP/ABAP Cloud

BTP CAP RAP

Globale Teamführung

Tools

ATC-Tooling

CI/CD Pipelines

S/4HANA Extensibility

Job description

## Senior Manager — Global SAP ABAP & BTP Development LeadBewerben: Hybrid: Bangalore: Full time: Heute ausgeschrieben: R51129Xylem ist ein Fortune 500 Wassertechnologieunternehmen mit global 23.000 Mitarbeitenden in über 100 Ländern und einer Mission: unseren Kunden durch innovative Technologielösungen und unser Fachwissen bei der Lösung von Wasserproblemen und -herausforderungen zu helfen. Wir sind der weltweit führende Anbieter effizienter, innovativer und nachhaltiger Wassertechnologien, die dafür sorgen, dass unser Wasser nachhaltig genutzt, optimal verwaltet, erhalten und wiederverwendet wird.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 directlywith functional solution owners and process leads.● Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, performance, security, ATC checks, peer review, unittesting, and documentation.● Establish CI/CD pipelines, transport governance, and release management across the landscape, with qualitygates 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-coreenhancement, 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 continuousreduction 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 andauthorization, 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 Foundationservices, 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, securitypatterns, and shared services that teams consume rather than rebuild.● Support deployment waves through interface build, conversion support objects, performance tuning, andhypercare 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, andperformance 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 andidentity models in production.● Demonstrated clean core implementation on S/4HANA, with a track record of reducing custom footprint ratherthan 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 costof 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 industrial sector complexity: variant configuration, service and installed-base processes plant-level integration.● SAP certification in ABAP Cloud, BTP Developer, or BTP Architecture. **Success in the First 12 Months**A published and enforced extensibility standard with a measurable reduction in in-core modifications. A BTPlandscape with governed entitlements, identity, DevOps, and cost transparency. A reusable asset library thatteams actually adopt. Transport and release cycles that are predictable and audit-clean. And an upgrade-readycore, proven by a routine release adoption with no remediation program attached. **Operating Principles You Will Work Under**● **Products, not projects.** Persistent teams aligned to value streams, funded by capacity rather than projectcycles, each paired with a business process owner accountable for the outcome.● **Clean core is non-negotiable.** Extensions live on BTP, the core stays standard, and custom code isgoverned at the point of creation.● **Paved road, not toll booth**. Golden paths, reference architectures, and reusable patterns, with guardrailsenforced in the pipeline rather than in a design authority meeting.● **Compliance by default.** Controls are designed into the platform and evidenced automatically, so controlintegrity holds at deployment scale.● **Accountable for value, not volume**. Success is measured in business process KPIs, adoption, and realizedvalue, not tickets closed or hours delivered.● **Intelligent enterprise by design**. AI and agent enablement, and the data readiness that makes both credible,are owned capabilities.● **Global template authority, local execution.** Template integrity is held centrally through the currentdeployment horizon, with a defined path to greater product-team autonomy.Werden Sie Teil des globalen Xylem-Teams und gestalten Sie innovative Technologielösungen mit, die die Nutzung, Verfügbarkeit, den Schutz und die nachhaltige Verwendung von Wasser sicherstellen. Unsere Produkte kommen in der öffentlichen Versorgung, der Industrie, im Wohnbereich und in gewerblichen Gebäuden zum Einsatz – mit dem Ziel, intelligente Maschinen, Anlagen, Messsysteme, Netzwerktechnologien und fortschrittliche Analysen für Wasser-, Strom- und Gasversorger sowie die Industrie bereitzustellen. Arbeiten Sie mit uns an einer Welt, in der die aktuellen und kommenden Wasserherausforderungen mit Kreativität und Engagement gelöst werden und in der Inklusion und Zugehörigkeit als Treiber für Innovation erkannt werden, um unsere Wettbewerbsfähigkeit weltweit zu stärken.