Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior Applications Developer

Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of developer experience; 3+ years in SAP development
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent
  • Proficient in SAP ABAP development and API integrations with S/4
  • Knowledge of SAP clean core principles and modern development methods
  • Experience with at least one iPaaS platform (e.g., SAP BTP, Boomi)
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills
  • Understanding of SDLC principles (Waterfall and Agile)

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business analysts for technical solution design
  • Maintain and develop SAP business workflows
  • Develop ABAP objects and modularize code effectively
  • Implement modern SAP development techniques including RAP and OData
  • Integrate S/4 applications with third-party solutions using BTP
  • Define security roles and ensure execution-level security for code
  • Create and maintain technical documentation and project artifacts

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • MIT-funded pension
  • Matching 401K contributions
  • Paid leave for vacation, sick, and parental needs
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
  • Access to mentorship programs
  • Flexible work-life balance options
Full Job Description
Position Description

The Senior SAP Application Developer will be responsible for technical analysis, development and unit testing of applications, extensions and integrations for S/4HANA (currently 2023 on-premise edition), SRM and to a limited extent, BW/4HANA. Although primarily responsible for the implementation of application code, they will collaborate with business analysts on the solution design of end-to-end processes enabled by SAP applications. They will maintain code version management and adhere to Clean Core standards and best practices for SAP development and technical documentation.

Primary Duties

  • Technical Solution Design: Utilize functional and technical specification templates to manage project scope and overview. Work with Business Analysts to determine preferred technical solutions including UI and application integrations
  • SAP Business Workflow: Maintenance of traditional SAP workflow processes and development of new workflows using modern methods
  • ABAP Core: Develop traditional RICEFW objects using knowledge of ABAP Object-Oriented programming, Data Dictionary (DDIC) and modularization techniques
  • Modern SAP:SAP Restful Application Programming (RAP) Model, CDS Views and OData services, Fiori.
  • Enhancements: Enhancements using side-by-side extensibility, Clean Core principles as well as traditional User Exits, Customer Enhancements, Business Add-In's (BADI's)
  • Application Integration: Integrate S/4 and partner applications using BTP Integration Suite and/or third party iPaaS (Boomi preferred); Expose S/4 data and transactions to conversational AI interfaces and agents; File-based/Idoc/FTP knowledge would be valued as well.
  • Security and Authorizations: Collaborate with SAP authorization team to define security roles as needed, ensuring that all code includes execution-level security and in-line authorization checks as needed.
  • Documentation:Create and maintain technical documentation for knowledge transfer and future reference.
  • Debugging, Testing and Troubleshooting: Effectively use ABAP Test Cockpit, Code Inspector, strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • Collaboration and Proactive Learning:Collaborate with other SAP developers, business analysts, integration platform owners. Keep skills current through self-motivation (training budget is available).
  • Upgrades: Review code for upgrade compatibility and mitigate incompatibilities/simplifications during SAP application upgrade process.


Minimum Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience as a developer; 3+ years in an SAP development environment
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
  • Skill in problem identification and solving system/application issues
  • Proven experience in SAP ABAP development and API integrations with S/4 in at least one of the following domains: FI, CO, MM, SD, or HR; optionally SAP SRM, SAP BW/4 HANA
  • Working knowledge of SAP clean core principles and modern SAP development methods (BTP, RAP, side-by-side extension, etc.)
  • Experience with at least one iPaaS platform: SAP BTP, Boomi, Mulesoft, etc
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly for technical documentation, using MS Office and other platforms
  • Excellent collaboration skills
  • Understanding of SDLC principles (Waterfall and Agile) and using Jira or similar tools to manage requirements and track work


Occasional off-hour/on-call support is necessary. A certain degree of flexibility of schedule is required as some work (planned/unplanned) must be done outside of major production hours during pre-scheduled maintenance windows.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Solution Architecture skills and experience
  • Experience implementing AI agents, MCP servers, orchestration in S/4 HANA environment or with data/transactions from an S/4HANA environment.
  • UI Development skills (SAP Fiori)
  • SAP Certifications in Application Development and/or SAP BTP
  • Familiarity with SAP Cloud Application Programming (CAP) Model, node.JS or Java


Hiring Range: $114,600 - $151,900

Disclaimer: MIT Lincoln Laboratory provides a typical hiring range as a good faith estimate of what we reasonably expect to offer for this position at the time of posting. The final salary offered to a selected candidate will depend on various factors, including-but not limited to-the scope and responsibilities of the role, the candidate's experience, skills and education/training, internal equity considerations and applicable legal requirements. This range reflects base salary only and does not include additional forms of compensation or benefits.

At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, our exceptional career opportunities include many outstanding benefits to help you stay healthy, feel supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance. Benefits offered to employees include:

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • MIT-funded pension
  • Matching 401K
  • Paid leave (including vacation, sick, parental, military, etc.)
  • Tuition reimbursement and continuing education programs
  • Mentorship programs
  • A range of work-life balance options
  • ... and much more!


Please visit our Benefits page for more information. As an employee of MIT, you can also take advantage of other voluntary benefits, discounts and perks.

Selected candidate will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation and must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret level DoD security clearance.

Requisition ID: 43265

About Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The university is known for its strong emphasis on scientific and technological research and its engineering programs. MIT was founded in 1861 and has a long history of innovation and entrepreneurship. The university has produced numerous Nobel laureates, Rhodes Scholars, and MacArthur Fellows.
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