Senior Manager — Global SAP ABAP & BTP Development Lead

Overview

Lead a global ABAP and BTP engineering team and act as guardian of SAP extensibility, clean-core strategy and BTP platform architecture at Xylem.

What you'll do

• Lead a global ABAP and BTP engineering team across onshore and offshore, spanning template build, deployment wave support, and sustaining engineering.
• Own the technical backlog, capacity plan, and delivery commitments across product domains, working directly with functional solution owners and process leads.
• Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, performance, security, ATC checks, peer review, unit testing, and documentation.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines, transport governance, and release management across the landscape, with quality gates enforced in the pipeline.
• Own the extensibility decision framework and act as approval authority for any classical modification or in-core enhancement.
• Drive extensions to key-user and developer extensibility, side-by-side on BTP, and released SAP APIs and BAdIs.
• Own custom code lifecycle management: inventory, usage analytics, remediation, retirement, and continuous reduction of the custom footprint.
• Ensure the landscape stays upgrade-ready so RISE release cycles and innovation adoption remain routine.
• Own the BTP architecture and its services, including Integration Suite, Build, Application Development (CAP/RAP), Event Mesh, Workflow, Business Rules, and Datasphere where relevant.
• Establish BTP governance: subaccount and space design, entitlement management, identity and authorization, DevOps tooling, and cost transparency by consumer.
• Build the API and event layer that exposes core business capability safely to satellite applications, partners, and AI services.
• Provide the technical foundation for AI and agent enablement, including Joule extensibility, AI Core and AI Foundation services, and production-grade integration patterns.
• Build and maintain the golden path: reference architectures, code templates, integration patterns, security patterns, and shared services.
• Support deployment waves through interface build, conversion support objects, performance tuning, and hypercare defect resolution.
• Partner with security on authorization design, SoD-safe development, and evidence generation through GRC.
• Manage system integrator and AMS partner engineering quality, staffing continuity, and adherence to Xylem standards.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in SAP technical development, with at least 5 years leading global engineering teams.
• Deep, current, hands-on ABAP expertise: ABAP for Cloud, RAP, CDS views, OData, AMDP, OO ABAP, and performance optimization on HANA.
• Ability to still read and judge code, not only manage people who write it.
• Proven SAP BTP delivery: CAP or RAP applications, Integration Suite, Event Mesh, and BTP security and identity models in production.
• Demonstrated clean core implementation on S/4HANA, with a track record of reducing custom footprint rather than simply documenting it.
• Experience with SAP Fiori and UI5 development and extensibility.
• Strong command of ATC, custom code migration tooling, and code quality automation.
• Transport and release management at scale across multi-wave global deployments.
• Ability to hold an architectural line under business and partner pressure, with the credibility to explain the cost of an exception in business terms.

Nice to have

• RISE with SAP private or public cloud experience.
• SAP Cloud ALM, Signavio, and Datasphere familiarity.
• AI and ML integration on BTP, including AI Core, AI Foundation, and Joule extensibility.
• Manufacturing or industrial sector complexity: variant configuration, service and installed-base processes, plant-level integration.
• SAP certification in ABAP Cloud, BTP Developer, or BTP Architecture.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.