About this role
Programmer/Analyst
Bengaluru, India
Job category: Information Technology Job ID: 136843-en_US
Job Summary
We are looking for SAP CRM Technical Lead(8+ years exp) who combines strong hands-on development expertise with a sharp production operations mindset. In this role you will:
- Lead architecture, design, development, and optimization of SAP CRM solutions using ABAP, ABAP on HANA
- Own end-to-end delivery of development initiatives — from requirements and technical design through coding, testing, and deployment
- Own large, cross-functional initiatives spanning SAP CRM, enterprise integrations, data models, and downstream consuming platforms
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical designs and implementation plans
- Concurrently support and operate business-critical SAP CRM production systems — managing incidents, maintaining SLAs, and driving high customer satisfaction
- Recommend and drive improvements in development standards, operational practices, and system architecture
- Provide technical leadership for complex integrations involving SAP PO/PI, RFC/BAPI, IDoc, OData, REST/SOAP services and enterprise platforms
- Actively contribute to AI/ML enablement within SAP CRM — including LLM integrations, MCP server development, AIOps
- Partner closely with business analysts, architects, product owners, and other engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable solutions
Job Requirements
SAP CRM Development:
- 8+ years of hands-on ABAP and ABAP on HANA development experience
- Deep functional knowledge of SAP CRM — Case Management, RMA/Service Orders
- Strong ABAP on HANA skills: CDS Views, AMDP, code push-down approach; HANA data modeling (Calculation Views, HANA procedures) is a plus
- Experience in SAP PI/PO
- SAP Gateway / OData service development experience
Integration & Middleware:
- Proven experience integrating SAP CRM with enterprise platforms including Identity Management, BI & Analytics and third-party systems
- Hands-on experience with RFC/BAPI, IDoc, SOAP/REST Web Services
- Experience with SAP PO (Process Orchestrator) for interface development, monitoring, and error reprocessing is a plus
Production Operations & Ticket Management:
- Proven experience supporting business-critical production SAP CRM systems with focus on SLA adherence and customer satisfaction
- Experience conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and delivering permanent fixes
- Proactively monitors system health — batch jobs, interface queues, workflows, and HANA performance
- Contributes to change management — raising, reviewing, and executing production changes following CAB approvals
AI Integration:
- Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs
- Experience building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers exposing SAP CRM entities — Cases, RMAs, Customer data — as AI-consumable tools and resources
- Experience with AIOps techniques — intelligent ticket triage, incident pattern recognition, and LLM-assisted root cause analysis
- Applies Responsible AI practices: PII masking, hallucination guardrails, and AI interaction audit logging
Soft Skills & Ways of Working:
- Works collaboratively across programmer/analysts, functional consultants, architects, and cross-functional peers
- Tackles unstructured, complex problems independently — applies new perspectives and creative approaches
- Demonstrates sound judgment: identifies issues in advance and proposes scalable, permanent solutions
- Proactive subject matter expert
Education
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Bachelor's/Masters degree with 8+ years of relevant SAP CRM experience
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At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
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