Senior SAP/ABAP Developer

What you will do

You will join a development team of five people working on SAP IS-U for Utilities applications. The team operates as a shared development pool, with work allocated as coherent packages rather than full project assignments. You will own each assignment end-to-end throughout the entire change lifecycle.

Your core responsibilities include:

• Proposing technical solutions based on functional specifications, challenging proposed approaches, and providing workload estimates
• Drafting and completing technical specifications, ensuring alignment with the company's technical architecture
• Developing code that complies with application standards, naming conventions, and best practice guidelines, with particular attention to ABAP Test Cockpit quality checks
• Ensuring code modularity, reusing existing libraries, and writing Object-Oriented ABAP (except where exceptions apply)
• Analysing and implementing SAP Notes
• Working closely with the SAP Basis team on authorizations, infrastructure, and technical configuration
• Executing and documenting unit tests, including performance testing, query optimization, and mass processing tests
• Performing deployment tasks that may require work outside normal business hours
• Analysing and resolving defects identified during test campaigns or production incidents
• Preparing technical documentation for each developed object

As a senior developer, you will take on more advanced assignments:

• Developing solutions for particularly complex and highly specialized topics
• Analysing and implementing Non-Functional Requirements across security, performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Acting as a technical reference point and single point of contact for the team on complex technical subjects
• Assisting the Team Lead in defining and improving development frameworks and standards
• Supporting the design of new cross-functional and enterprise-wide solutions
• Evaluating, selecting, and introducing new technologies and tools
• Mentoring and coaching junior developers

The team supports both corrective and evolutionary maintenance as well as new projects, including initiatives around remote device capabilities and S/4HANA improvements.

What we are looking for

Essential requirements:

• At least 10 years of proven experience as an SAP backend developer
• Proven experience within SAP S/4HANA development
• Knowledge and experience in classical ABAP, Object-Oriented ABAP (use of classes), and backend development, particularly through SAP standard extensions (User-Exit, BAdI, Enhancement Spot, etc.)
• Proven experience in SAP interface development: IDoc/ALE, BAPI/RFC, SOAP Web Services, OData and SAP Gateway
• Fluent in English

Strongly preferred:

• Proven experience with SAP key tools: SAP ABAP Workbench, Eclipse/ABAP Development Tools (ADT), and ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC)
• Proven experience in Business Object Repository Objects (BOR)
• Proven experience in data migration using LSMW and EMIGALL
• Proven experience in Core Data Services (CDS Views)
• At least 3 years of proven experience as a developer in SAP IS-U within the Utilities sector
• Proven experience in SAP IS-U for Utilities across at least 3 different functional domains: Device Management (DM), Structuring/Switching, Metering, Energy Data Management (EDM), Billing, Customer Services (CS), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
• Master's degree in Information Technology, Economics, Industrial Engineering, or a Scientific field

Valuable additional experience:

• Web Dynpro
• Business Rule Framework Plus (BRF+)
• SAP BPEM/EMMA module
• Business Object Layer (BOL) and SAP CRM
• MPM/IDEX-GC Framework
• S/4HANA Embedded Analytics
• More specialized areas: Dynpro/Dialog Programming (screens), Forward Error Handling (FEH), Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF), Floorplan Manager (FPM) in Web Dynpro
• Supporting tools: Jira, Omnitracker, SAP Solution Manager, SOAP UI
• SAP Fiori development: Fiori Launchpad, Fiori Designer, Web-IDE, Business Application Studio (BAS)
• Adobe Forms
• French or Dutch language skills

You demonstrate strong listening, analytical, organizational, and synthesis skills. You possess excellent communication skills and can explain complex technical concepts clearly. You are a team player while also capable of working autonomously.

The setting

This assignment runs from mid-November 2026 through to the end of November 2027, with the possibility of extension.

You will work full-time, five days per week, with a minimum