SAP ABAP Consultant

SAP ABAP Consultant

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires SAP ABAP Consultant to be based at their client's office in London/Watford, UK.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London/Watford office 3-4 days per week.

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

The Role

As part of a SAP Brownfield Implementation and Enhancement Programme, this role supports the organization's business transformation journey to transition into a secure, modern, cloud-aligned SAP S/4HANA platform. The objective is to enable continuous transformation, operational agility, and AI-driven growth.

The role is aligned with a decoupling strategy focused on establishing a clean core architecture, ensuring that the SAP S/4HANA system leverages standard SAP capabilities across key business domains, while minimizing customizations and technical debt.

Overall, the role is pivotal in maintaining environment integrity, minimizing risks, and accelerating delivery timelines while aligning with enterprise governance, compliance standards, and the broader goal of building a future-ready, AI-enabled SAP platform.

Key Responsibilities

• The SAP ABAP consultant is responsible for designing the overall technical components of SAP landscapes across SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP Fiori/UI5.
• This role ensures high-performance, scalable, secure, and future-ready SAP solutions that align with business strategy and IT roadmaps.
• The technical consultant collaborates closely with functionals, business leaders, solution architects, Basis, development teams, and integration teams to deliver robust and compliant SAP technical platforms.

Key Requirements

Essential Skills

• Strong hands-on experience designing and governing SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC technical architectures.
• Deep understanding of SAP system landscape design, including DEV/QAS/PRD/DR environments.
• Strong experience with SAP HANA database architecture, optimization, backup/restore strategies, and security.
• Expertise in SAP integration technologies:
  • APIs (REST, SOAP, OData)
  • IDocs, RFCs, Event-driven architectures
• Ability to design end-to-end integration patterns across SAP and non-SAP systems (CRM, eCommerce, SCM, WMS, POS, Finance apps).
• Ability to enforce coding standards, reusable component frameworks, and conduct technical reviews.
• Working knowledge of SAP on Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience conducting technical impact assessments, solution reviews, and performance troubleshooting.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with SAP BTP advanced services (Workflow, Business Rules, Event Mesh, API Management).
• Knowledge of DevOps/CI-CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Develop and Review Technical specifications, solution, review of design, Unit Testing, and handling FUT/UAT issues.
• Experience with API-led integration, micro-APIs, and API governance.
• Experience in complex enterprise environments such as retail, manufacturing, FMCG, pharma, or supply chain-heavy industries.
• Hands-on exposure to Fiori Elements & custom UI5 apps and Side-by-side extensions on SAP BTP

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