SAP OData/ABAP - Senior Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida and has other operational offices and sites spread across Delhi, Gurugram, Bengaluru and Mumbai, among others. Over 2200 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Aerospace and Cyber & Digital sectors. Thales has two engineering competence centres in India - one in Noida focused on Cyber & Digital business, while the one in Bengaluru focuses on hardware, software and systems engineering capabilities for both the civil and defence sectors, serving global needs. The Group has also established an MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) facility in Gurugram to provide comprehensive avionics maintenance and repair services to Indian airlines and support the growth of the local aviation industry.

DIGIS Tribes develop and maintain applications for Business Lines Avionics Global Services AGS, inside Thales GBU AVS.

AVS business lines provides, all around the world, customer support and maintenance of avionics Thales equipment.

The applications are built on top and outside SAP ERP. Their main business goals are to facilitate users’ day-to-day works (logisticians, repair technicians, marketing, sales, …) and improve overall industrial performance.

Such applications need to be connected in real time to SAP ERP, through OData web services, to read, update or delete data (SAP objects). We also have multiple reports and dashboards executed from SAP as wel.

The service is composed with multiple development squads (web applications, API middleware …) and you will be on boarded into a hybrid international squad (between France and India) in charge of SAP OData developments, SAP ABAP developments and pure SAP configurations

Responsibilities

• Analyze business needs expressions (functionalities, features, …)
• Determine (with the whole squad) technical impacts and specifications to implement functionalities
• Develop ABAP code and OData web service to expose functionalities and data
• Write Unit and Integration tests to assert new developments and protect against regression
• Answer direct end users support tickets on question regarding processes, data or configuration
• In relevant case prepare and develop bug fixing (if needed)
• Debugging and Performance analysis relevant techniques
• Roles and Authorization management in SAP ( in GRC as well )

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as an SAP technical consultant or in a similar role, with at least 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in SAP ABAP development
• Proven experience as an SAP technical consultant or in a similar role, with at least 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in SAP OData exposure development (CRUD operations using deep entities, streaming …)
• Proven experience in roles and authorizations management in SAP
• Proven experience in SAP ECC 6 version (experience in SAP 4 HANA would be a plus)
• CS module experience will be well appreciated
• Web API (HTTP verbs, error code, swagger Open API documentation, …) experience will be well appreciated
• Experience working on ticketing system and for direct end user support will be well appreciated
• Strong understanding of SAP best practices and methodologies
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an AGILE SCRUM context

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