SAP BTP Lead___Remote___fulltime

Role: SAP BTP Lead

Loc: Bellevue, WA__Remote

Fulltime

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