ABAP Technical Lead

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Stonebranch

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

✈️ Travel

Healthcare • Logistics • Travel

Stonebranch is a company specializing in IT automation solutions with a focus on orchestration and management across hybrid IT environments. Their platform, the Universal Automation Center, offers capabilities in workload automation, cloud automation, DevOps automation, data pipeline orchestration, and managed file transfer. Stonebranch helps businesses centralize control by delivering real-time, event-driven automation solutions, aiming to break down automation silos from on-premise to cloud-based services. The company is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms and supports over 350 Fortune 1000 companies with their automation needs.

📋 Description

• Own the technical architecture of BatchMan and make high-level design decisions • Establish and maintain engineering standards, coding conventions, and best practices • Maintain and modernize classic ABAP4, ABAP OO, and Java-based agent components • Translate product requirements into maintainable technical solutions • Lead BatchMan's AI-first development transformation using Claude Code • Write technical specifications for AI-driven development • Direct, review, and verify AI-generated ABAP and Java code • Build documentation, context, and conventions for safe AI-agent development • Participate in peer code reviews • Design and build capabilities extending SAP background processing and job scheduling into landscape-wide workload automation • Develop and maintain XBP/XMI, RFC, OData, and REST integrations • Optimize performance for high-volume job processing and large data volumes, including SQL tuning • Package and deliver releases through the SAP Transport System and Add-On Assembly Kit • Serve as technical escalation point for complex Customer Support issues • Engage directly with customers in German or English when required • Partner with the Senior Product Manager on roadmap feasibility, estimates, and technical trade-offs • Collaborate with the other developer and share product expertise

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in computer science or a related field, or completed vocational IT training (e.g., Fachinformatiker für Anwendungsentwicklung) with equivalent professional experience • 10+ years of professional experience in software development • 8+ years of hands-on ABAP development experience, including substantial work in classic procedural ABAP (ABAP4) • Proven experience building or maintaining a commercially shipped SAP add-on or product, not solely customer-specific extensions or module customizations • Track record of owning a technical area and making architecture decisions • Expert-level command of ABAP4 and ABAP OO, including Dynpro UI, ALV, and the SAP Control Framework • Deep knowledge of SAP background processing and job scheduling, including SM36/SM37, SM50/SM66, and ST22 • Hands-on experience with XBP and XMI interfaces • RFC programming and debugging, including configuring RFC connections in SM59 • Strong understanding of authorization objects, lock objects, and LUWs • SQL optimization for large data volumes • Working knowledge of the SAP Transport System • Hands-on experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code • Strong interest in AI-first, specification-driven development workflows • Experience packaging and delivering add-ons with SAP Add-On Assembly Kit (AAK) preferred • Java development experience, particularly agent- or service-based architectures, preferred • Experience with SFTP, SSH, JKS keystore management, TLS/SSL configuration, and multithreaded Java service code preferred • Experience with OData, REST, XML, and JSON preferred • SAP Basis knowledge, including authorization configuration, preferred • Background with workload automation or enterprise job scheduling products preferred • Business-fluent German (C1 minimum) and fluent English (C1 minimum), written and verbal, required • Self-directed, proactive, methodical troubleshooting and collaboration abilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment with hybrid or remote options • Continuous learning opportunities and professional development • Competitive compensation and benefits package aligned with local market standards and employment regulations • Regular team and company events • Collaborative international team culture • Work-life balance and flexibility