Infrastructure & Technology Senior SAP ABAP Developer Professional Multiple Cities

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and maintain ABAP programs, including reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and forms (RICEF).
• Create and maintain backend services such as OData services, API integrations, and RFC/BAPI developments.
• Analyze functional requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Perform debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization of ABAP code and SQL queries.
• Support SAP modules (e.g., FI/CO, MM, SD, HR, etc.) with custom developments and enhancements.
• Ensure compliance with SAP best practices, security standards, and naming conventions.
• Collaborate with functional teams to validate deliverables and support UAT and production deployments.
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to migration or upgrade projects (e.g., ECC to S/4HANA) including CDS views, AMDP, and HANA-optimized ABAP.
• Provide technical support during incident resolution and change management processes.

Required Education

None

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Extensive experience in ABAP development, including:
• Reports (Classical, ALV)
• Interfaces (IDoc, RFC, BAPI, Web Services, OData)
• Conversions (Data Migration, LSMW, BDC)
• Enhancements and Modifications (User-Exits, BADI, Enhancement Points)
• Strong knowledge of SAP NetWeaver, ABAP Workbench, and Eclipse-based ABAP development.
• Experience with performance optimization, debugging, and troubleshooting ABAP programs.
• Familiarity with SAP HANA, CDS Views, AMDP, and HANA-optimized ABAP development.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience in agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Exposure to global SAP projects or multi-country rollouts.
• Experience mentoring junior ABAP developers or leading small development teams.
• Strong business process knowledge in SAP modules relevant to the organization (e.g., Finance, Supply Chain, HR).

Other Relevant Job Details

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

Senior Sap Abap

Job ID

76037

City / Township / Village

Bari, San Felice, Napoli

State / Province

Country

Italy

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

No Travel

Company

Shift

General (daytime)

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