SAP Development Lead

New Value Solutions, a national IT consulting company, is seeking an SAP Development Lead to support a large-scale SAP transformation initiative for a major municipal client. This role will provide technical leadership and oversight across SAP development activities related to the organization’s transition from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4

HANA Cloud (Private Edition) under RISE with SAP. The successful candidate will lead and govern SAP development initiatives spanning SAP S/4

HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Integration Suite, SAP Fiori/UI5, and enterprise integrations, while ensuring alignment with clean core principles, architectural standards, security requirements, and industry best practices. The role will work closely with system integrators, business stakeholders, and internal IT teams to support process transformation initiatives across Finance, Real Estate, Embedded Analytics, and enterprise modernization programs.

Responsibilities:

• Providing technical leadership and guidance for SAP development initiatives delivered by internal teams and system integrators.
• Acting as the lead technical advisor across SAP S/4
  
  HANA, SAP SaaS, SAP BTP-based iPaaS and PaaS solutions.
• Defining, reviewing, and approving SAP solution designs, development approaches, and technical architectures.
• Ensuring alignment with SAP best practices, clean core principles, governance standards, security requirements, and long-term maintainability objectives.
• Performing code reviews, validating technical designs, and conducting quality assurance checks across SAP development deliverables.
• Leading SAP custom code remediation and modernization activities supporting SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation initiatives.
• Supporting migration activities involving SAP Process Integration/Process Orchestration (PI/PO) to SAP Integration Suite and Net Weaver Portal to SAP Fiori Launchpad modernization.
• Designing and supporting SAP integrations across SAP and non-SAP platforms, including A2A, B2B, and hybrid integration solutions.
• Supporting development and optimization of ABAP CDS Views, REST services, embedded analytics, RAP applications, and OData services.
• Leading SAP Fiori/UI5 configuration, development, deployment, debugging, and extension activities across frontend and backend layers.
• Providing technical oversight for SAP extensibility and in-app extension development while minimizing core customizations.
• Collaborating with business and IT stakeholders to align SAP solutions with transformation objectives, operational requirements, and program priorities.
• Supporting Agile delivery practices, Azure Dev Ops coordination, estimation activities, defect management, and development governance processes.
• Providing technical mentorship, hands-on problem solving, and delivery support throughout implementation and modernization initiatives.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of hands-on SAP ABAP development experience including ABAP OO, debugging, HANA-based performance optimization, SQL tuning, code pushdown techniques, and runtime optimization of custom programs.
• 3+ years of SAP Development Lead experience including code reviews, development governance, risk assessment and mitigation, enforcing clean core principles, SAP and industry best practices, and hands-on technical troubleshooting.
• 2+ years of experience with SAP S/4
  
  HANA on-premise and/or SAP S/4
  
  HANA Private Cloud implementations including end-to-end implementation or conversion projects, code remediation, simplification items, and SPAU/SPDD upgrade activities.
• 5+ years of SAP integration experience with SAP and non-SAP systems including SAP Integration Suite, A2A integrations, B2B integrations, hybrid integrations, monitoring, and production support.
• Hands-on experience delivering RAP applications and services including data modeling, OData exposure, and end-to-end application delivery.
• 5+ years of experience with ABAP CDS Views including data modeling, REST service development, CDS hierarchies, and embedded analytics enablement.
• 2+ years of experience with SAP extensibility and in-app extension development aligned to clean core principles.
• 4+ years of SAP Fiori/UI5 experience including configuration, design, development, deployment, debugging, Fiori Elements, freestyle UI5 development, and standard Fiori app extensions.
• Experience with delivery governance and quality assurance including estimation, defect management, development standards, naming conventions, reusable components, and code review practices.
• 3+ years of experience working within Agile delivery environments using tools such as Azure Dev Ops.
• Strong understanding of SAP Finance and Controlling modules with the ability to translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience working with system integrators, business teams, and enterprise stakeholders within large-scale SAP transformation initiatives.
• 7+ years of experience designing, implementing, configuring, packaging, and deploying custom SAP applications using ABAP object-oriented design…