SAP ABAP Senior Technical Lead

District of Columbia, District of Columbia

The Senior Technical Lead with a focus on SAP ABAP Programming Basics is responsible for leading technical teams, managing projects, and ensuring the successful implementation of SAP ABAP projects. This role involves analyzing requirements, designing solutions, coding, and testing applications to meet business needs efficiently.

Objective & Role Summary

Broad SAP technical leadership for a fast-paced HQ role, with Scrum Master backup capability as needed. This resource primarily provides SAP technical direction, direct coordination with Product Owners, stakeholders and leadership, and supports delivery governance, onboarding oversight, capacity monitoring and cross-pod planning without replacing the dedicated Scrum Master role.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Strong SAP ABAP background across multiple modules and integration patterns.
• Experience leading technical design reviews, code reviews, quality checks and release readiness.
• Scrum Master or Agile delivery support experience, including ceremony backup, impediment tracking and delivery metrics awareness.
• SAFe, Scrum or SAP development certifications preferred.
• Ability to multi-task across competing initiatives while maintaining delivery discipline.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead SAP technical solutioning and development oversight across modules and financial workflows.
• Provide backup support for Scrum ceremonies, sprint execution and backlog readiness discussions when needed, while the dedicated Scrum Master owns routine Agile facilitation.
• Coordinate onboarding oversight, capacity monitoring, and cross-pod planning support from HQ.
• Support release planning, production cutover, hyper care and incident triage.
• Technical architecture notes, code review observations, and quality improvement actions.
• Delivery governance inputs including risks, impediments, dependencies, capacity observations and technical delivery health updates.
• Onboarding oversight inputs, capacity observations, and cross-pod planning notes.
• Release readiness and support transition documentation.

Technical & Functional Competencies

• SAP ABAP, S/4
  
  HANA development landscape, Fiori backend enablement and integration technologies.
• Agile facilitation, servant leadership and structured follow-through.
• HQ-facing communication, stakeholder coordination and multi-workstream execution.

At HCLTech, you ll supercharge your potential. You ll find your career. And you ll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services.

Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026totaled $14.8billion.

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program;

401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.