Lead Consultant - SAP ABAP

Location: Hyderabad, India
Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried
Compensation: Base Salary, Bonus, Stock Options, Medical

Job Description 

About Innovapptive

Innovapptive is an enterprise SaaS company building an AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for industrial organizations. Our platform connects frontline workers, back-office systems, and assets in real-time to drive safety, reliability, and operational productivity.

Leading global enterprises including Shell, Hess, Westlake Chemical, Kimberly-Clark, Scott Miracle-Gro, and Newmont Mining, rely on Innovapptive to transform how work gets done across plants and field operations.

Our customers have achieved $50M+ EBITDA savings at a single enterprise, 10× improvement in frontline productivity, and 15–20% reductions in maintenance costs.

Innovapptive is recognized as a Leader in Frost & Sullivan's “Frost Radar 2025 -  Augmented Connected Worker Platforms”, with acknowledgments from Gartner and LNS Research, and is backed by Vista Equity Partners and Tiger Global Management.

With headquarters in Houston and an engineering center in Hyderabad, we have 300+ employees across the U.S., India, and ANZ and are on a strong trajectory toward $100M ARR.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Lead Consultant – SAP ABAP with strong technical and functional experience in SAP implementation and support projects. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in ABAP development, especially within Plant Maintenance (PM) and Materials Management (MM), and will work as Lead consultant and Monitor and guide the team

This is a client-facing leadership role requiring strong ownership, solutioning capability, and global delivery exposure.

How You Will Make An Impact.

• Lead end-to-end SAP ABAP development activities across implementation and support projects.
• Strong in RICEF concepts along with ODATA
• Design and architect scalable, high-performance technical solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Drive ABAP on HANA developments using new ABAP 7.4+ syntax, CDS Views, AMDP, and performance optimization techniques.
• Lead development in BADI, BAPI, Enhancements, User Exits, ODATA services, and custom frameworks.
• Oversee ABAP developments within the PM module (Work Orders, Notifications, Functional Locations, Equipment) and MM module.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers and review code to ensure quality standards.
• Participate in requirement gathering workshops and translate functional specifications into technical designs.
• Handle complex integrations and interface developments.
• Work closely with functional consultants, architects, and client stakeholders across global delivery projects.
• Ensure adherence to development best practices, naming conventions, performance tuning, and transport management.
• Contribute to estimation, planning, risk mitigation, and solution governance.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6 to 8 years of strong SAP ABAP development experience across implementation and support engagements.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end SAP ABAP development activities for large-scale implementation projects, preferably for product-based environments like Innovapptive.
• Strong expertise in RICEF objects (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms).

Technical Expertise

• Strong Object-Oriented ABAP development experience.
• Deep expertise in ABAP on HANA, including:
• New ABAP 7.4+ syntax
• CDS Views
• AMDP
• Performance optimization techniques

Extensive hands-on experience in:

• BADI, BAPI
• User Exits, Customer Exits
• Enhancement Framework, Enhancement Points & Spots
• oDATA services
• Custom frameworks
• Strong experience in ECC to S/4HANA migration projects.

Expertise in form developments:

• Experienced in SmartForms, SAP Scripts and Adobe Forms
• Strong experience in SAP Label Printing, including Knowledge on NACE configuration for output types
• Spool creation and print management

Functional & Module Expertise

• Extensive experience in PM and MM module-related ABAP developments with strong functional understanding.
• Hands-on experience in PM objects including: Work Orders, Notifications, Functional Locations and Equipment

Leadership & Delivery Capabilities

• Ability to design and develop custom enhancements using BADIs and Enhancement Framework based on business requirements for Innovapptive products.
• Experience leading technical design discussions and translating functional requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong experience handling complex integrations and interface developments.
• Proven experience in global client-facing roles and distributed delivery models.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior developers, and conduct code reviews to ensure quality standards.
• Ensure adherence to development best practices, naming conventions, performance tuning standards, and transport management processes.
• Contribute to estimation, planning, risk mitigation, and solution governance activities.

Professional Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and solution design capabilities.
• Exposure to the S/4HANA environment is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills.

 Preferred:

• Familiarity with leveraging AI tools for coding, such as Cursor, SAP Joule, and ChatGPT.
• SAP RAP (Restful APIs Programming Model)
• SAP Backend (Node JS & MongoDB) will be given added advantage 
• Github
• ALE Idocs
• SAP Workflows

What We Offer:

• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects
• Competitive Base Pay
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promoting high performance culture
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment
• Learning & Development - access to wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,)
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, alienage or citizenship status, political affiliation, marital or partnership status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth (or related medical conditions), sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, genetic disorder, genetic predisposition, carrier status, military status, familial status, or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal, state, or local laws.