Hiring: Manager SAP ABAP Development Company: Ahold Delhaize USA Location: Salisbury, NC Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:36:09 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : ABAP, API Design, Agile, CI/CD, Cloud Native, Digital Transformation, Event-Driven, Integration Testing, REST, SAP, Stakeholder Management, Systems Integration About the job Experience: •10+ years of SAP application development experience, including ABAP, Fiori/UI5, SAP BTP, and integration technologies. •5+ years of experience leading development teams or managing SAP delivery workstreams. Required Skills: •Provide strategic and operational leadership over SAP application development functions, overseeing the design, build, and delivery of solutions across S/4HANA and SAP BTP in alignment with Retail Spine program objectives, SAP Activate delivery phases, and clean core adoption principles. •Define and maintain the development taxonomy and delivery scope across ABAP (RAP, CDS Views, OData services), Fiori/UI5 applications, SAP BTP services, workflow and process automation, forms, integrations, and cloud-native components - ensuring full WRICEF visibility, traceability, and prioritization alignment with program releases. •Lead API-first and service-based design standards, governing the use of OData, REST APIs, SAP Integration Suite (CPI), and event messaging frameworks to enable scalable, decoupled integration across the retail ecosystem and enterprise application landscape. •Govern SI-delivered application development work products, ensuring adherence to architecture standards, clean core compliance, code quality benchmarks, security requirements, and performance expectations - including participation in design reviews, code reviews, and transport governance processes. •Partner with SAP Solution Architects, Platform, and Basis teams to ensure development patterns are aligned to the RISE with SAP target architecture, BTP platform strategy, and long-term technology modernization roadmap - proactively identifying and resolving architectural conflicts before they reach build. •Establish and enforce engineering standards across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, peer and architecture review gates, automated testing frameworks, DevSecOps practices, transport management discipline, and release readiness criteria - operating consistently across Agile, hybrid, and program-controlled delivery models. •Own the application development contribution to key SAP Activate phase gates - including Fit-to-Standard workshops, design sign-off, build quality reviews, and go-live readiness assessments - ensuring development workstreams are a reliable input to program milestone delivery. •Define and track KPIs for application development operations, including build velocity, defect rates, clean core compliance scores, transport success rates, and rework ratios - using metrics to drive quality improvement, capacity planning, and SI performance conversations. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. •3-5+ years of experience leading development teams or managing SAP delivery workstreams. •Hands on expertise in SAP S/4HANA development, CDS views, RAP model, OData services, and SAP extensibility patterns. •In-depth knowledge of Clean Core principles and SAP recommended customization approaches. •Operational familiarity with Agile delivery models, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines in SAP environments. Compensation: •$151,200 - $226,800 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!