SAP Technical Lead/SAP Developer

GDT - General Datatech; Sugar Land (TX); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

GDT - General Datatech is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Lead/SAP Developer to support and evolve our SAP landscape, focusing on S/4HANA, APIs, and integrations. This hands-on role also provides technical leadership across SAP implementations and transformations.

The ideal candidate has led significant S/4HANA initiatives, understands when to use standard SAP vs custom development, and aims to maximize native SAP functionality with minimal bespoke interfaces.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience participating in a significant S/4HANA implementation, transformation, or modernization initiative.
• Strong understanding of APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with SAP BTP.
• Experience with SAP Integration Suite/Cloud Integration or comparable SAP integration technologies.
• Ability to understand how SAP interacts with non-SAP enterprise applications.
• Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance standard SAP functionality vs. custom development and recommend the most sustainable technical approach.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across functional, technical, and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the organization's SAP S/4HANA landscape.
• Support the technical design, development, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of SAP applications.
• Participate in S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, transformations, and technical initiatives.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements and determine whether they can be addressed through standard S/4HANA functionality, SAP-native capabilities, configuration, extensions, or custom development.
• Help establish scalable and supportable technical patterns across the SAP environment.
• Partner with functional teams, business stakeholders, developers, vendors, and other IT teams on SAP solutions.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA

APIs & integrations

S/4HANA transformations

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Tools

SAP BTP

SAP Integration Suite

Signavio

Signavio Process Insights

SAP Cloud ALM

Tricentis

WalkMe

LeanIX

Integration Center

Job description

Sugarland, TX – Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week

Full-Time/Direct-Hire

Salary up to $175k, depending on experience

This role is W2 only. Not eligible for C2C or sponsorship.

OVERVIEW

We are seeking an experienced SAP Technical Lead/SAP Developer to support and help evolve our SAP technology landscape, with a focus on S/4HANA, SAP BTP, ABAP, APIs, integrations, and SAP-native solutions. This role will serve as a hands-on technical resource while also providing technical leadership across the SAP environment. The ideal candidate has participated in a significant S/4HANA implementation or transformation, is fluent in how APIs and enterprise integrations work, and can evaluate when to use standard SAP capabilities versus custom development. A key objective is to maximize the use of SAP's native capabilities and minimize unnecessary custom interfaces and point-to-point integrations. Industry experience is not required. Experience in oil & gas, utilities, chemicals, retail, pipeline, or other industries are welcome, but transferable SAP experience is the priority.

RESPONSIBILITIES

SAP Technical Leadership & S/4HANA

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across the organization's SAP S/4HANA landscape.
• Support the technical design, development, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of SAP applications.
• Participate in S/4HANA implementations, upgrades, transformations, and technical initiatives.
• Evaluate business and technical requirements and determine whether they can be addressed through standard S/4HANA functionality, SAP-native capabilities, configuration, extensions, or custom development.
• Help establish scalable and supportable technical patterns across the SAP environment.
• Partner with functional teams, business stakeholders, developers, vendors, and other IT teams on SAP solutions.

ABAP Development

• Develop, enhance, troubleshoot, and maintain ABAP-based solutions within the S/4HANA environment.
• Support custom programs, reports, enhancements, interfaces, and other SAP technical objects as needed.
• Evaluate existing customizations and identify opportunities to simplify or replace custom development with standard SAP functionality.
• Troubleshoot issues across application, configuration, data, authorization, and code layers.

SAP BTP & Integration

• Work with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Integration Suite/Cloud Integration.
• Design and support integrations between SAP and non-SAP applications.
• Understand and work with APIs, REST/SOAP web services, OData, IDocs, RFC, flat files, and other integration patterns.
• Understand API architecture and how data moves between customer-facing applications, SAP, and third-party systems.
• Troubleshoot integrations end-to-end, including authentication, authorization, certificates, endpoints, payloads, mappings, data, middleware, and application/code issues.
• Evaluate existing and proposed interfaces to determine whether a standard SAP capability, API, BTP service, Integration Suite, or Integration Center can eliminate the need for a custom point-to-point solution.
• Support integrations with systems such as Oracle, GIS, HR/payroll, tax engines, procurement platforms, Datasphere, customer portals, and other enterprise applications.

SAP Process & Transformation Tools

• Experience with the broader SAP ecosystem is highly valued, particularly:
• SAP Signavio/Signavio Process Insights – understanding and analyzing business processes, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and supporting S/4HANA transformation.
• SAP Cloud ALM – application lifecycle, implementation, monitoring, and operational support.
• SAP BTP – platform services, extensions, integrations, APIs, and application capabilities.
• Tricentis – automated testing and validation within SAP environments.
• WalkMe – digital adoption and user enablement.
• LeanIX – SAP/application landscape and enterprise architecture management.
• Signavio experience is particularly valuable because of the role's focus on understanding business processes and determining how those processes should be supported within the SAP environment.

Technical Troubleshooting & Ownership

• Own or support resolution of complex SAP technical issues across multiple applications and platforms.
• Trace problems across configuration, authorization, data, API, middleware, integration, and application/code layers.
• Work independently to isolate root causes rather than immediately escalating issues.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors when specialized development or infrastructure support is required.
• Document technical solutions, integration patterns, dependencies, and architectural decisions.

REQUIRED/CORE EXPERIENCE

• Strong hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience participating in a significant S/4HANA implementation, transformation, or modernization initiative.
• Strong understanding of APIs and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with SAP BTP.
• Experience with SAP Integration Suite/Cloud Integration or comparable SAP integration technologies.
• Ability to understand how SAP interacts with non-SAP enterprise applications.
• Strong technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance standard SAP functionality vs. custom development and recommend the most sustainable technical approach.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across functional, technical, and business teams.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• SAP Signavio/Signavio Process Insights
• SAP Integration Center
• Tricentis
• WalkMe
• LeanIX
• Experience integrating SAP with Oracle, GIS, HR/payroll, tax, procurement, customer portals, or other enterprise platforms.
• Experience serving as a technical lead, application lead, technical architect, or senior SAP developer.