Senior Software Engineer SAP ABAP

Thomson Reuters; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Software Engineer SAP Expert to enhance the Software Development Lifecycle for enterprise-scale products. This role offers the chance to design and develop innovative SAP ABAP solutions while collaborating with diverse teams to drive project success. You will also mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth in a dynamic work environment. Join a company committed to creating impactful solutions that transform customer experiences and uphold values of transparency and justice. If you are ready to make a difference and thrive in a flexible, inclusive culture, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days Off

Work from another location

Headspace app subscription

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

LinkedIn Learning access

Networking opportunities

Paid volunteer days

Comprehensive benefit plans

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software development with a focus on SAP ABAP.
• Strong expertise in REST and SOAP services integration.
• Ability to mentor and lead a team of developers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement SAP ABAP programs and enhancements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet business requirements.
• Mentor junior developers and ensure coding standards are met.

Skills

SAP ABAP Development

Object-Oriented ABAP

REST Services

SOAP Services

Problem-Solving

Agile Methodologies

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SAP NetWeaver

SAP PI/PO

Full Stack Development

Job description

Senior Software Engineer SAP Expert

Are you excited about the opportunity to apply your creative problem-solving abilities to improve the Software Development Lifecycle for enterprise-scale products? If yes, we are looking for you.

Join our team! The Self-Service Portal team seeks to recruit a seasoned Senior Software Engineer SAP Expert to join our established global team. This role demands an experienced professional in Software Development to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and advance software solutions. You will collaborate with both internal and external teams to oversee project priorities, deadlines, and outcomes. Additionally, you will mentor junior software engineers, overseeing their code reviews and fostering the growth of their technical skills. This presents an excellent opportunity to create an immediate effect by transforming the digital interactions of our customers as we develop the next generation of solutions for enterprise-wide customer experiences.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Senior Software Engineer SAP Expert, you will:

1. Design, develop, and implement new SAP ABAP programs, reports, interfaces, and enhancements to meet business requirements.
2. Analyze and optimize existing ABAP code for performance, maintainability, and scalability.
3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business analysts and product owners to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
4. Participate in the entire software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
5. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior ABAP developers.
6. Ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and SAP guidelines.
7. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to SAP ABAP applications.
8. Stay up-to-date with the latest SAP technologies, tools, and industry trends.
9. Participate in internal team and status meetings, in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and provide work breakdown and estimates of work.
10. Research and identify new software technologies that can be leveraged to improve application performance and development efficiency, reducing cost and maintaining quality, working closely with development leads.
11. Develop Full stack, high resilience, low latency information management, and processing system in the Tax and Legal worlds.
12. Provide creative and elegant solutions to complex problems.
13. Participate in software releases.
14. Work together with your team and other teams to deliver high-grade, performant, well-documented, and resilient features.
15. Work together with the Quality Assurance team to prepare test plans/test cases and define test execution methodology and perform tests.
16. Identify and fix defects.

About You

You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
2. Total 6 + years experience
3. Minimum of 5 years of experience in SAP ABAP development.
4. Extensive knowledge of ABAP programming, including Object-Oriented ABAP, ABAP Workbench, and ABAP Query.
5. Expertise on RICEFW (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Workflows) development, and enhancing SAP processes.
6. Strong expertise working with REST (must have) and SOAP services.
7. Strong understanding of SAP architecture, modules (e.g. FI, CO, MM, SD), and integration technologies (e.g. RFC, BAPI, IDOCs).
8. Experience with middleware technologies such as SAP PI/PO (SAP XI).
9. Experience with SAP NetWeaver.
10. Familiarity with agile methodologies, software development best practices and debugging techniques.
11. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills.
12. Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
13. Able to provide technical guidance and oversight to a team of 5-8 developers and a tester.
14. Leadership skills with a track record of mentoring, setting technical goals, and delegating tasks Strong troubleshooting and debugging experience.
15. Comfortable leading design discussions in addition to hands-on development.
16. Experience using Agile Methodologies - primarily Scrum.
17. Ability to write clean, readable code that is easy to understand.
18. Ability to mentor junior developers and translate requirements from business partners.
19. Excellent written and verbal communication skills - to communicate effectively with Technical staff, Business Analysts, Management, and business team members).
20. Willing to come to our office in Bangalore or Hyderabad twice a week.

Desired Experience:

1. Strong SAP ABAP development background.
2. Strong knowledge of REST APIs.
3. Server-side programming technologies experience.
4. Strong troubleshooting and debugging experience.
5. Experience leading design discussions in addition to hands-on development.
6. Experience mentoring junior developers and translating requirements from business partners.
7. Full Stack development experience using Front End technologies (React/Angular), Back End technologies (Java/NET), cloud technologies (AWS/Azure), or other core languages and cloud technologies across the technology industry. [Good to have]

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

1. Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
2. Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
3. Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
4. Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
5. Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
6. Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.