Lead SAP ABAP Developer (m/f/d)

Innovation is and will always be the core of SAP Fioneer, and it is the promise of why we were spun out of SAP: agility, innovation, and delivery.

SAP Fioneer builds on a heritage of outstanding technology and a deep understanding of corporate and consumer demands. At the heart of it all it is simple: We bring financial services to the next level with innovative software solutions and platforms.

We are helping companies in the financial services industry to achieve speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency through digital business innovation, cloud technology, and solutions that cover banking and insurance processes end-to-end.

A global company, with rapid growth, innovative people, and a lean organization makes SAP Fioneer a place where you accelerate your future!

About role

As a Lead SAP ABAP Engineer you will drive the backend architecture and delivery of our cloud-based SaaS platform built on S/4HANA and SAP BTP technologies. You will design, develop and maintain scalable, secure, high-performance components, own technical decisions, and ensure clean-core, upgrade-safe extensibility across our Fioneer solutions. In this role you will lead and mentor a small team of ABAP engineers, collaborate closely with product owners, UX/Fiori leads and cross-functional stakeholders, and translate business needs into robust backend APIs, CDS/OData services and integration patterns.

If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, shaping architecture, and growing engineering talent while contributing to a next-generation SaaS platform, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design, own and govern the architecture of scalable, secure backend components for innovative lending solutions built on ABAP and related SAP technologies.
• Define technical direction, coding standards, and best practices; drive adoption of clean-core, upgrade-safe extension patterns across teams.
• Lead implementation efforts, review designs and code, and ensure delivery of high-quality standard software in an agile environment while collaborating with internal stakeholders, customers and partners.
• Partner strategically with front-end developers, designers, and product owners to define end-to-end solutions, APIs (CDS/OData) and integration patterns.
• Diagnose, prioritize and resolve complex technical issues; coordinate incident response and post-mortem actions to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure engineering excellence through structured testing strategies (unit, integration, UAT support), CI/CD pipelines, automated quality checks, performance tuning and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and grow ABAP engineers: conduct code reviews, provide technical coaching, run knowledge-sharing sessions and support career development.
• Create, maintain and approve comprehensive technical documentation, runbooks and architectural artefacts.
• Drive platform readiness for cloud deployments, oversee security, observability and governance, and lead upgrade/migration planning.
• Stay current with innovations in S/4HANA, RAP and SAP BTP and evaluate their adoption to advance the platform roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in ABAP object-oriented development, with substantial hands-on work on S/4HANA (experience in the financial sector is a plus).
• Proven track record (3+ years) leading and mentoring engineering teams, driving technical decisions and delivery in enterprise SAP projects.
• Deep proficiency in OData, Core Data Services (CDS), and ABAP RESTful Application Programming (RAP).
• Practical experience with SAP BTP (services, deployment approaches, integration concepts) and cloud readiness for enterprise solutions.
• Strong architecture and design skills: defining extension patterns, clean-core strategies, multi-tenant SaaS considerations, and upgrade-safe solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD for ABAP, automated testing strategies, performance tuning, observability, and operational readiness.
• Familiarity with modern SAP development tools (Business Application Studio, Eclipse, or Visual Studio Code).
• Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills; ability to break down technical complexity and balance risks.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills; experienced collaborating with product, UX/Fiori, DevOps and business teams.
• Fluent in English.

Nice-to-have

• Certification in S/4HANA, SAP BTP, or related SAP technologies.
• Domain experience with banking products and processes (e.g., retail lending, regulatory reporting).
• Full-stack experience with SAP UI5/Fiori or close collaboration history with UI leads.
• Hands-on experience with SAP HANA (AMDP, performance modeling).
• Exposure to event-driven architectures and integration patterns on SAP BTP.
• Experience working in agile frameworks (Scrum / SAFe) and leading international, cross-functional teams.

Benefits

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry on an incredibly ambitious project to shape the ever-evolving financial sector. This is an environment where you can have it all - the agility, enthusiasm and dynamism of a start-up, combined with the established expertise, solid market presence and extensive customer network of a more established organisation.

At SAP Fioneer, you will benefit from a flexible work environment that encourages creativity and encourages you to think outside the box, bring new ideas to the table, and challenge the status quo. You will become part of a diverse and global team that we are proud of and are constantly growing and reinventing. As an employee, you will have the chance to chart your own career path and take advantage of competitive compensation packages and progression opportunities based on merit.

We offer pension plans and life insurance for financial security. Our health and wellbeing benefits include private medical insurance, wellness cover, and an employee assistance program. Additionally, our mobility benefits vary based on seniority level and include company car benefits and transportation assistance. Furthermore, we provide additional perks such as celebration rewards, a jubilee program, and a meal program.