Team Lead - SAP ABAP (F/M/D)

EagleBurgmann; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Freudenberg Group in Chennai seeks a highly skilled SAP ABAP Team Lead to guide ABAP delivery across SAP S/4HANA, Fiori, CDS views, interfaces, and clean core development. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on ABAP expertise with technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery governance in a fast-paced, on-site environment.

This role partners with business stakeholders, functional consultants, project managers, and global IT teams to ensure scalable, maintainable SAP solutions

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading ABAP development teams or workstreams.
• Strong communication with business stakeholders and IT teams.
• Real-time ABAP knowledge including RICEF, OO programming, and maintainable standards.
• Facilitate workshops to clarify requirements and align stakeholders on ABAP delivery.
• Document and challenge requirements to ensure technical feasibility and clean-core alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day ABAP development activities and balance team capacity.
• Provide architectural guidance and enforce coding standards.
• Coach team members and support professional development.
• Coordinate cross-team collaboration between ABAP, functional consultants, and project managers.
• Deliver quality through reviews, testing, and documentation.

Skills

SAP ABAP development

Team leadership

Communication skills

RICEF knowledge

Code reviews

Clean core principles

Tools

ABAP development tools

Job description

Working at Freudenberg: \"We will wow your world!\" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.

EagleBurgmann is a leading international specialist in industrial sealing technology. We combine innovative technologies, digital solutions and our passion to create sophisticated and reliable sealing systems. Our products help make entire industries safer and more sustainable.

Some of your Benefits

• Diversity & Inclusion: We focus on providing an inclusive environment and recognize our diversity contributes to our success.
• Personal Development: We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career.
• Sustainability & Social Commitment: We support social and sustainable projects and encourage employee involvement.
• Paid Holidays: With paid-time off, local holidays are all the way more relaxing.
• Health Insurance: Rely on comprehensive services whenever you need it.

Chennai

On-Site

EagleBurgmann KE Pvt. Ltd.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SAP ABAP Team Lead to guide ABAP development delivery across SAP S/4HANA, Fiori, CDS views, interfaces, and clean core development. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on ABAP expertise with technical leadership, stakeholder alignment, delivery coordination, mentoring, and quality governance. This role works closely with business stakeholders, functional consultants, project managers, and global IT teams to ensure scalable, maintainable, and high-quality SAP solutions.

Team Lead - SAP ABAP (F/M/D)

Responsibilities

• Leadership Responsibilities
• Team coordination and workload steering
• Coordinate day-to-day ABAP development activities, balance team capacity, and ensure clear prioritization of tasks across projects, support activities, and continuous improvement topics.
• Technical decision-making and architecture guidance
• Guide technical solution design and architectural decisions to ensure scalable, maintainable, and clean-core-compliant ABAP developments.
• Coaching and capability development
• Support the professional development of team members through coaching, onboarding, feedback, and identification of learning opportunities.
• Cross-team collaboration leadership
• Act as a bridge between ABAP developers, functional consultants, business stakeholders, project managers, and global IT teams to ensure alignment and smooth delivery.
• Performance feedback input
• Provide structured input on team members’ performance, technical growth, and development needs where applicable.
• Delivery and governance
• Define and enforce development quality standards, including unit testing, code reviews, performance checks, documentation, and adherence to clean core principles.
• Manage multiple deliverables across projects by coordinating team capacity, priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in SAP ABAP development, including custom reports, enhancements, interfaces, and technical leadership of ABAP development teams or workstreams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, with the confidence to align business stakeholders, functional consultants, developers, project managers, and global IT teams.
• Strong knowledge of ABAP with real-time exposure to RICEF components, object-oriented programming, technical design, code review practices, and maintainable development standards.
• Structure and consistency
• Facilitate workshops and technical discussions to clarify business requirements, assess solution options, and align stakeholders on feasible ABAP delivery approaches.
• Validate, document, and challenge requirements where needed to ensure technical feasibility, clean core alignment, and sustainable solution design.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.