Title: ABAP Technical Manager
The ABAP Technical Manager is central to ensuring SAP ecosystem thrives through strong vendor partnerships, thoughtful design governance, and a collaborative spirit. The role involves oversight of application managed service, governance of technical delivery, and possible hands-on involvement for high priority items.
Key Responsibilities
- Vendor Oversight and Delivery Management
- Manage AMS vendor performance and ensure customer-focused delivery of SAP ABAP solutions
- Define and monitor SLAs, KPIs, and quality benchmarks.
- Conduct regular reviews of vendor deliverables and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
- Oversee allocation and utilization of resources in alignment with project and delivery needs
- Design Governance & Technical Leadership
- Establish and enforce ABAP design principles and coding standards.
- Review and approve technical specifications for scalability and maintainability.
- Provide expert guidance on complex ABAP developments and mentor internal/external developers.
- Actively contribute to coding and solution development for strategic, high-priority SAP initiatives.
- Lead by example in delivering clean, efficient, and scalable ABAP code.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with functional leads, analysts, and project managers to co-create solutions
- Act as the primary escalation point for ABAP-related issues.
- Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
- Drive code review frameworks and automated testing strategies.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives in ABAP development processes.
- Stay current with SAP technologies and bring forward innovative ideas.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 5 or more years of SAP ABAP experience, including some experience in a technical leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience in ABAP Objects, BAPIs, BADIs, User Exits, and performance tuning.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in managing vendor deliverables for projects and/or BAU.
- Must be willing to work in Ortigas, Pasig (Hybrid work setup).