Role: SAP BTP Lead - FULL TIME ROLE
Location: Bellevue, WA/Remote
Job Description
The SAP BTP / RAP Lead will provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise in designing, building, and delivering enterprise-grade applications on SAP BTP using the RESTful ABAP Programming Model (RAP). This role carries end-to-end accountability for solution design, delivery, and quality, along with people leadership responsibilities, including mentoring and managing a team of developers.
Technical Leadership & Solution Ownership
Own end-to-end design, development, and delivery of applications built on SAP BTP and SAP RAP, ensuring alignment with business and architectural goals.
Lead the design and implementation of RAP-based architectures, including managed & unmanaged scenarios, transactional processing, and draft-enabled applications.
Define and govern solution design covering CDS views, behaviour definitions, service definitions, service bindings, and OData V4 services.
Drive UI integration using Fiori Elements and SAPUI5, ensuring consistent UX, performance, and extensibility.
Delivery & Accountability
Act as the single point of accountability for delivery commitments for the team, including scope, timelines, quality, and technical outcomes.
Ensure adherence to SAP clean core principles, cloud-ready ABAP development standards, and BTP best practices.
Proactively identify delivery risks, performance bottlenecks, and integration challenges, and lead resolution to closure.
Team Leadership & Mentoring
Lead and manage a team of developers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and continuous coaching.
Establish development standards, best practices, and reusable frameworks across the team.
Support team planning, task allocation, estimation, and sprint execution in collaboration with project and delivery managers.
Mentor junior team members and help build long-term RAP and BTP capability within the organization.
Integration & Architecture
Lead integration of BTP applications with S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Cloud Integration (CPI), API Management, Event Mesh, Destination Service, IAS/IPS, and other BTP services.
Collaborate closely with enterprise architects, functional consultants, security, and DevOps teams to design secure, scalable, and resilient solutions.
Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, and technology roadmap planning.
Quality, DevOps & Documentation
Drive performance optimization, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis across environments.
Ensure strong DevOps practices leveraging gCTS / ABAP Git, transport strategy, and CI/CD pipelines.
Own and review technical design documents, solution blueprints, and operational documentation.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Strong hands-on expertise in SAP RAP (managed and unmanaged scenarios).
Deep knowledge of CDS Views, annotations, behaviors, metadata extensions, and extensibility concepts.
Proven experience building OData V4 services and consuming them via Fiori Elements / SAPUI5.
SAP BTP & Integration
Experience integrating BTP applications with:
SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC
SAP Cloud Integration (CPI)
API Management, Event Mesh, Destination Service
Identity and access services (IAS/IPS)
Solid understanding of cloud-native design principles, multi-tenant applications, and deployment on SAP BTP.
Leadership & Delivery
Prior experience in a lead role managing a development team.
Strong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability for delivery.
Excellent communication skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Development & DevOps
Experience with Git-enabled Change and Transport System (gCTS) or ABAP Git.
Strong debugging, performance tuning, and production support skills.
Generic Managerial Skills, If any Lead, manage, and mentor a team of SAP developers working on RAP and BTP-based solutions.
Own day-to-day team management, including:
Task planning and assignment
Sprint execution and delivery readiness
Code quality, peer reviews, and technical governance
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