ABAP Senior Developer with AI

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll bring

• Minimum of 10 years of programming experience in the Software Development Lifecycle
• Deep experience with distributed systems and scalable application design, including resiliency and fault tolerance.
• Strong, hands-on LLM engineering: prompt design, function/tool calling, structured outputs, multi-turn reasoning, and agentic workflow design.
• Proven application of advanced RAG patterns (retriever optimization, indexing strategies, grounding, guardrails) and multi-agent orchestration.
• Experience in architecting tool integrations via MCP across multiple products/teams.
• Working knowledge of SAP BTP AI services — Generative AI Hub, AI Core, and Joule Studio — including agentic orchestration for production deployments.
• Familiarity with the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol for designing bidirectional, interoperable multi-agent architectures across SAP and external agent ecosystems.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph to build, test, and operate production agent workflows.
• Expertise in performance tuning, cost management, and debugging complex production systems.
• Solid grounding in SRE principles: service-level objectives, runbooks, observability (logs/metrics/traces), incident management, and postmortems.
• Experience designing and operating evaluation frameworks for AI systems to validate model behavior and reliability.
• Technical leadership: mentoring, driving design reviews, raising code quality, and influencing engineering practices.
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate business processes into agentic workflows and clearly articulate AI value to non-technical stakeholders.
• A problem-solving mindset with rigorous troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA architecture, data models, released APIs, and end-to-end business processes; Finance domain knowledge is an advantage.
• Hands-on expertise in ABAP Objects, modern ABAP, ABAP CDS/VDM, RAP, OData, enhancement frameworks, APIs, and performance-oriented development.

What you'll build

• Design and deliver production-grade AI agents that autonomously orchestrate SAP S/4HANA business processes, including multi-agent patterns and advanced RAG pipelines.
• Define and own AI evaluation and benchmarking frameworks to measure quality, reliability, safety, and performance.
• Architect and implement tool integration using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple product teams and systems.
• Build A2A-compliant agent architectures enabling structured, bidirectional communication between Joule and BTP agents.
• Wrap OData services and S/4HANA APIs as MCP-consumable tools via the SAP Integration Suite MCP Gateway, making them securely accessible to AI agents across teams and products.
• Optimize system latency, throughput, resilience, and cost across services and workloads; continuously tune performance and efficiency.
• Establish and evolve observability (logs, metrics, traces), alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews in line with SRE best practices.
• Partner with platform, data, and AI teams to design robust, scalable integrations and harden systems for production.
• Build high-quality SAP solutions using ABAP/OO ABAP, modern ABAP, RAP, CDS/VDM, OData services, enhancement frameworks, and APIs.
• Deliver features through the full lifecycle: technical design, implementation, automated testing, release, stabilization, and ongoing production support.
• Collaborate with product, design, and cloud operations to shape roadmaps and ship value; drive automation in CI/CD and multi-level test strategies for frequent, reliable releases.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, conduct root-cause analysis, implement preventive actions, and continuously improve security and reliability.

Where you belong

You’ll join the SAP S/4HANA Finance team, take end-to-end technical ownership of critical systems and contribute to engineering excellence across the team. Mentoring less-experienced engineers, guiding design and code quality, and building strong technical capabilities within the team are all part of the role. The team operates across global, cross-functional groups in a culture that values continuous improvement, operational excellence, and knowledge sharing.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity,  gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process .

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 457036  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid