Columbia Sportswear Company connects active people with their passions and is a global multi-brand leader in outdoor, active, and lifestyle products, including apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment. Founded in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, the company's brands are sold in 122 countries. Alongside its flagship Columbia brand, the company owns Mountain Hardwear, SOREL, and prAna — together spanning hiking, trail running, snow sports, fishing, hunting, mountaineering, yoga, climbing, and everyday outdoor lifestyle apparel and footwear. With a strong global presence across wholesale, direct-to-consumer, and e-commerce channels, Columbia Sportswear Company India Sourcing Pvt Ltd plays a key role in supporting the organization's sourcing and supply chain operations worldwide.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled SAP ABAP Engineer to support the development, enhancement, integration, and maintenance of SAP applications while contributing to the organization's ongoing SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration program. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in ABAP development, custom SAP solutions, and system integrations, along with exposure to S/4HANA concepts such as custom code remediation, CDS Views, and HANA-optimized development. The role requires close collaboration with functional consultants, business stakeholders, and project teams to deliver scalable, high-quality SAP solutions and ensure a successful S/4HANA transformation.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, and support SAP applications using ABAP and ABAP Objects.
- Develop and maintain RICEF objects including Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, and Workflows.
- Create and enhance ALV Reports, Smart Forms, Adobe Forms, User Exits, Customer Exits, BAdIs, and Enhancement Framework objects.
- Develop and support integrations using IDOCs, BAPIs, RFCs, OData Services, APIs, and middleware platforms.
- Collaborate with functional teams to analyze requirements and deliver technical solutions aligned with business processes.
- Perform troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and resolution of production support issues and defects.
- Prepare technical specifications, design documents, unit test scripts, and deployment documentation.
- Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to SAP development standards and best practices.
- Support system testing activities including SIT, UAT, Hypercare, and production deployments.
- Contribute to the ongoing SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration by analyzing and remediating custom code for S/4HANA compatibility.
- Develop and optimize HANA-ready solutions using CDS Views, AMDP, and modern ABAP techniques where applicable.
- Perform custom code assessment, simplification checks, and performance optimization during migration activities.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless transition of business processes to SAP S/4HANA.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve application performance, maintainability, and user experience.
- Provide timely support for critical incidents and participate in release and change management activities.
Criteria & Management Requirements:
- Exposure to SAP S/4HANA Migration, CDS Views, AMDP, Fiori/OData development, SAP CPI/PI integrations, custom code remediation, and HANA performance optimization.
- Problem Solving: Identifies and solves complex problems that impact multiple areas. Applies independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions.
- Decisions: Routinely analyzes unique issues or problems and functions with a high degree of autonomy.
- Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Applies specialized knowledge of industry standards/practices on key projects and initiatives.
- Business Acumen: Interprets internal/external business challenges. Recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services to distinguish from the competition.
- Communication & Influence: Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Converts technical information to compelling business context and advice.
- Impact: Decisions will have significant impact to multiple departments or disciplines.
- Leadership: Manages projects and end to end programs with moderate resource requirements, risk and/or complexity. Provides training and leadership for other team members.
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.