Senior Manager — SAP Business Process and Performance Management Leader

Overview

Senior Manager leading SAP technical performance engineering, governing end-to-end process performance, ABAP and HANA tuning, and batch and system performance across enterprise SAP functions.

What you'll do

• Own performance for critical business processes across OTC, RTR, STP, and PTM/SCM, measured as business outcomes: order-to-confirmation time, MRP run duration, close cycle time, shipment throughput, and period-end batch windows.
• Establish performance SLOs per process with business process owners, and report against them as a standing operating metric.
• Lead root cause analysis where slow performance is a process design or master data problem, and drive the fix upstream.
• Own performance readiness as a formal go-live gate for every deployment wave, with volumetric modeling based on real segment transaction profiles.
• Provide hands-on analysis and remediation of custom ABAP: expensive selects, nested loops, sequential reads, buffering misuse, internal table handling, parallelization, and background job design.
• Drive code pushdown to HANA using CDS views, AMDP, and ABAP for Cloud patterns.
• Own performance standards in the development lifecycle: ATC performance checks, SQL Monitor and SQL Performance Tuning Worklist, code inspector rules, and mandatory performance review for high-volume objects.
• Partner with the ABAP and BTP Senior Manager so performance is designed in at build time.
• Analyze HANA internals: execution plan analysis, delta merge behavior, partitioning strategy, table distribution, column store optimization, and memory and workload management.
• Own expensive statement analysis, plan cache review, index and view optimization, and data aging or archiving strategy where data volume is the root cause.
• Manage sizing, capacity forecasting, and workload profiling with the RISE hyperscaler and SAP operations teams.
• Own batch and job scheduling architecture, including critical path analysis for period-end and nightly windows.
• Analyze interface and integration performance across the landscape, including Integration Suite and high-volume data flows.
• Lead formal performance and volume testing cycles: scenario design, execution, analysis, and sign-off.
• Partner with SAP services engagements (MaxAttention, Enterprise Support, EarlyWatch, Cloud ALM, Focused Run) on health checks and safeguarding.
• Lead performance-related RCCA for production incidents and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Hold AMS and system integrator partners accountable for performance quality in delivered code.
• Translate technical findings into business impact for segment and program leadership.

What you'll need

• 15+ years in SAP technical performance engineering, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership rather than a component specialty.
• Expert-level ABAP performance tuning, with the ability to open a trace and diagnose it independently.
• Deep command of ST05, ST12, SAT, SQLM, SE30, and runtime analysis tooling.
• Expert-level HANA performance and database internals: plan visualization, expensive statement analysis, partitioning, delta merge, memory management, and sizing.
• Proven S/4HANA performance ownership through go-live and steady state at global scale, with high transaction volumes.
• Strong command of Basis-adjacent performance domains: work process configuration, memory parameters, RFC and background job tuning, and system monitoring.
• Functional literacy across core process areas, enough to reason about why a business process is shaped the way it is and to challenge it credibly.
• Experience defining and running formal performance test cycles as a go-live gate.

Nice to have

• RISE with SAP private cloud operations experience and hyperscaler capacity management.
• SAP Focused Run, Cloud ALM operations, and Signavio process mining used to correlate process design with runtime behavior.
• Data volume management, archiving, and data aging strategy at scale.
• Manufacturing or industrial complexity: variant configuration, large BOM structures, and high-volume plant and warehouse transactions.
• Fiori and UI5 frontend performance analysis.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.