The SAP ABAP team is responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and maintaining SAP technical solutions that support enterprise business processes. The team works closely with functional consultants, business stakeholders, and integration teams to deliver scalable, high-quality SAP developments across various SAP modules.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, develop, and maintain SAP ABAP solutions for business requirements.
- Build custom reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, forms, and workflows.
- Support SAP implementation, enhancement, rollout, and production support activities.
- Collaborate with functional consultants to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Ensure development follows SAP best practices, coding standards, and performance optimization.
- Participate in code reviews, technical documentation, testing, and deployment.
- Troubleshoot production issues and provide timely defect resolution.
- Support system upgrades, migrations, and S/4HANA transformation initiatives.
- Develop custom ABAP programs including:
- Reports (Classical, Interactive, ALV)
- Module Pool Programs
- Interfaces
- Enhancements
- User Exits
- Customer Exits
- BAdIs
- Enhancement Framework
- Develop SmartForms, SAP Scripts, Adobe Forms.
- Build and maintain RFCs, BAPIs, IDocs, ALE interfaces, Proxy/Web Services.
- Develop File-based interfaces using Application Server and Middleware.
- Develop CDS Views and AMDPs where applicable.
- Build OData Services using SAP Gateway.
- Prepare Technical Design Documents (TDDs).
- Estimate development effort.
- Review functional specifications and provide technical solutions.
- Ensure reusable and scalable development.
- Work closely with SAP Functional Consultants (FI, MM, SD, PP, WM, etc.).
- Collaborate with Basis, Security, Integration, and Infrastructure teams.
- Support SIT, UAT, and Production deployment activities.
- Perform code optimization and performance tuning.
- Conduct peer code reviews.
- Ensure compliance with SAP development standards.
- Maintain transport management and version control.
- Analyze production issues.
- Perform root cause analysis.
- Implement fixes and enhancements.
- Support release management activities.
- Strong ABAP Programming
- Object-Oriented ABAP (OOABAP)
- ALV Reports
- Module Pool Programming
- SmartForms
- SAP Scripts
- Adobe Forms
- Data Dictionary (DDIC)
- Function Modules
- BAPIs
- RFC
- IDocs
- ALE
- Enhancements
- BADIs
- User Exits
- Enhancement Framework
- Interfaces
- File Interfaces
- Web Services
- SOAP
- REST APIs
- OData Services
- SAP Gateway
Preferred experience in:
- CDS Views
- AMDP
- Code Pushdown concepts
- HANA Performance Optimization
- Eclipse ADT
- ABAP on HANA
- Technical Documentation
- Unit Testing
- Debugging
- Performance Tuning
- Transport Management
- Code Reviews
- Production Support
Experience supporting one or more SAP modules:
- Finance (FI)
- Controlling (CO)
- Materials Management (MM)
- Sales & Distribution (SD)
- Production Planning (PP)
- Warehouse Management / EWM
- Human Capital Management (HCM)
- Plant Maintenance (PM)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Ability to work independently
- Team collaboration
- Agile/Scrum exposure
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- 7–10 years of SAP ABAP development experience.
- Experience in at least one end-to-end SAP implementation.
- Experience in support, enhancement, and rollout projects.
- Exposure to SAP S/4HANA projects is highly preferred.
- Experience working in global delivery environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
- SAP ABAP Certification (preferred).
- SAP S/4HANA ABAP certification (preferred).
What we offer you
- Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
- Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
- A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
- A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
- Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.
- Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
- We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.
At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.
MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.
MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email [email protected] and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.
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