Software Engineer - S 4HANA Development

What’s The Role

As a Software Engineer specializing in S/4HANA Development, you will leverage strong SAP ABAP expertise along with sharp analytical and problem‑solving skills to design and deliver high‑quality SAP solutions in close collaboration with business analysts, stakeholders, and senior team members. You are expected to demonstrate integrity, transparency, resilience, and sound judgment under pressure while driving exceptional business outcomes, including implementing changes with minimal to no disruption. You will actively seek external insights to broaden your technical knowledge, embrace diverse perspectives, and collaborate effectively across teams and cultures to accelerate delivery and continuously enhance solution quality.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Apply strong SAP ABAP development expertise, combined with analytical and problem‑solving skills, to build SAP solutions in close collaboration with business analysts, stakeholders, and senior team members.
• Develop, test, debug, and optimize ABAP programs to support the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of various SAP functional areas.
• Design, code, and test programs, interfaces, and custom objects for SAP modules using the ABAP programming language.
• Provide technical support for SAP ABAP components, including integrations with third‑party systems.
• Work with business analysts to translate functional requirements into clear and complete technical specifications.
• Identify feasible technical solutions within the SAP framework and estimate the effort required to address requirements and gaps.
• Review functional specifications to ensure completeness and readiness for development.
• Manage multiple assignments while supporting ongoing application maintenance and resolving production incidents.
• Collaborate with internal and external technical teams to drive continuous improvements and system enhancements.
• Partner with analysts to assess the impact of system and process changes across applications and workstreams.
• Document system changes, technical designs, and testing outcomes in alignment with SDLC and audit requirements.
• Develop specialized reports using ABAP and related SAP reporting tools.
• Provide guidance to IT team members on development standards, best practices, and ABAP methodologies.
• Support business analysts in creating and maintaining training materials and reference documentation.
• Participate in technical requirement gathering, develop prototypes or proof‑of‑concepts, and deliver high‑quality technical specifications and documentation even with limited initial information.
• Conduct peer code reviews to ensure quality, maintainability, and adherence to development standards.
  
  

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or an equivalent field.
• 5–8 years of overall technical experience, including a minimum of 3 years in S/4HANA and ABAP development across implementation projects.
• Experience in at least one full-cycle SAP implementation (preferred).
• Hands-on experience building SAP interfaces, enhancements, and reports, with SAP Workflow development exposure (preferred).
• Strong expertise in Enhancement Framework, OData services, ALE/IDoc, OO/ALV, BAPI, and ALV reports.
• Proven experience developing and modifying SAP forms including Smart Forms and Adobe Forms.
• Practical experience working on S/4HANA implementation projects.
• Experience of ABAP CDS views, S/4HANA extensibility options (in-app and side‑by‑side), and Restful application programming (RAP).
• Demonstrated ability to translate functional specifications into robust technical designs using SAP programming tools including ABAP, OO/ALV reporting, and form development technologies.
• Proven development experience and solid functional understanding of at least two SAP modules such as MM, SD, PM, FI/CO, PS etc.
• Strong self-driven approach, ownership mindset, and results-oriented working style.
• SAP technical certifications are a strong advantage.
  
  

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.
• Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.
• Achieve your balance in a value-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Join an organization to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world. We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply.
• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• international teams.
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs.
  
  

Wed like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. You can get to know more about how were working towards that goal, click here.

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