SAP Technical Lead (ABAP, RICEFW, OData,FIORI/UI5)

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate SAP technical development across implementation, enhancement, upgrade, migration, integration, maintenance, and support activities.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to ABAP developers and technical team members.
• Design scalable and maintainable SAP solutions in line with architecture, development, security, and quality standards.
• Lead ABAP RICEFW development covering Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows.
• Review functional and technical specifications, define technical approaches and solutions, provide estimates, and ensure delivery quality.
• Design, develop, and support OData services using SAP Gateway and ABAP for SAP UI5, Fiori, and third-party integrations.
• Coordinate with SAP UI5/Fiori teams to ensure effective backend integration, service consumption, and issue resolution.
• Conduct design reviews, code reviews, performance optimization, and adherence to SAP development standards.

Required Skills:

• Higher education qualification: minimum bachelor's degree; a master's degree is preferred.
• At least 10 years of experience in SAP environments, with significant experience in ABAP technical leadership.
• Strong expertise in SAP ABAP, RICEFW, OData, SAP Gateway, and backend integration.
• Good knowledge of SAP UI5/Fiori and frontend-backend integration concepts.
• Demonstrated leadership, coordination, stakeholder management, and delivery ownership.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under complex scenarios.
• Excellent communication skills with business, functional, technical, senior stakeholders, and partners.
• Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, RAP, and BTP would be an advantage.
• Strong hands-on experience in SAP ABAP, ABAP Objects, debugging, performance tuning, and technical design.
• Extensive experience in ABAP RICEFW development and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of ABAP coding standards, technical specifications, code reviews, and performance optimization.
• Strong experience in OData services using SAP Gateway and ABAP, including modelling, CRUD operations, implementation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience integrating OData services with SAP UI5, Fiori, and third-party applications.
• Good knowledge of SAP UI5 concepts including MVC, data binding, OData consumption, and frontend-backend communication.

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference – for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.

About Thales

In a world that is increasingly fast moving, unpredictable – and full of opportunities, trust is essential for societies to flourish. Trust in our institutions. Trust in our systems. Trust in technology. Trust in each other.

And the people we all rely on to make the world go round, they rely on Thales. They come to us with big ambitions: to make life better, to keep us safer.

From the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace, we help our customers navigate uncertainty with confidence and new frontiers with optimism. Thinking smarter and acting faster - mastering ever greater complexity and every decisive moment along the way.

We collaborate to architect and deliver high technology solutions that are both imaginative and resilient, human-centered and sustainable. So that together we can harness the extraordinary power of technology to build a future we can all trust.