Staff I Software Engineer SAP

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At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

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Make Your Mark:
About You:
We are looking for a well-rounded SAP technologist with a strong technical foundation, leadership abilities, and exceptional communication skills—capable of delivering high-quality solutions and support in dynamic SAP environments.

About the Role:
As a Staff Software Engineer, SAP, you will play a crucial role in building the next generation of BlackLine applications, specifically focusing on the integration of our SAP solutions with the BlackLine Cloud. You will act as a key technical leader, driving innovation within our product suite, with a strong emphasis on business logic across various SAP modules, particularly in the finance and internal trade domains (FI, MM, SD). This role involves providing expertise in SAP services, including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and proactively delivering well-designed solutions with a keen sense of software architecture.

If you are passionate about developing impactful SAP ABAP products, possess a strong development vision, and thrive in a collaborative agile environment dedicated to solving customer problems, we encourage you to apply.

You'll Get To:
Technical Expertise & Software Development

• Demonstrate strong proficiency in ABAP technology.
• Continuously learn and adapt to evolving SAP stacks, including ABAP for Cloud, conducting research and influencing product direction.
• Provide technical expertise in requirements analysis, design, effort estimation, development, testing, and delivery of highly scalable software.
• Adhere to architectural guidelines in your designs; develop, test, troubleshoot, debug, optimize, scale, release, maintain, and improve software applications.
• Execute on development tasks, including manual and ABAP Unit tests.
• Perform critical maintenance, deployment, and release support activities, including off-hours support when required (e.g., time shifts).

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a primary technical point of contact for the product team.
• Collaborate with product management, your team, and other engineering teams to understand both stated and unstated needs, translating them into functional and technical requirements.
• Estimate project and release scope and timelines, ensuring the team consistently delivers on commitments.

Documentation & Quality Assurance

• Develop comprehensive functional and technical specifications, test plans, and technical documentation.
• Maintain high standards of software quality and technical excellence within the team by establishing good practices and writing clean, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
• Help the team adhere to coding and quality standards.

Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor junior developers and share best practices.
• Serve as a Scrum Master, overseeing team activities and agile ceremonies.
• Conduct peer code reviews to ensure code quality and facilitate knowledge sharing.
• Proactively identify and address technical issues, bottlenecks, gaps, or opportunities for improvement.

Communication & Customer Orientation

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for effective collaboration with support teams and customers.
• Capable of producing high-quality technical documentation, including UML diagrams and customer-facing materials.
• Willingness to provide support to customers, including outside regular business hours when needed.
• Maintain a positive, enthusiastic attitude toward working with support desks and end users.

What You'll Bring:
Required Qualifications

• Years of Experience: Minimum of 8 years of experience with SAP ABAP Programming and planning.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science (BE/B.Tech or ME/M.Tech), Information Technology, or a related field.

Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
SAP Environment & Platforms

• Proficient in development on SAP S/4HANA 2022+ and ECC 6.0 platforms.
• Hands-on experience with the SAP Finance (FI) module, especially journal postings and related business processes.
• Experienced with ABAP Development Tools (ADT) in Eclipse for cloud development.

ABAP Programming Expertise

• Advanced knowledge of ABAP Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
• Strong understanding of MVC architecture and adherence to SOLID principles.
• Practical experience with common design patterns in ABAP development.
• Skilled in developing and optimizing Core Data Services (CDS) views and utilizing extensibility options.
• Knowledge of when and how to use the HANA Query Analyzer.

SAP Integration & Modernization

• Proficient in classic enhancement techniques (BDC, User Exits, BAdIs) and transitioning to SAP Clean Core standards.
• Experience with SAP web services, including configuration, consumption, and testing (e.g., using Postman).

Analytical & Problem-Solving Abilities

• Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting and optimizing financial business processes.
• Proactive and eager to continuously learn and adapt to new SAP technologies and methodologies.

We're Even More Excited If You Have:

• Familiarity with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP BTP ABAP Environment (Steampunk).
• Proficient in the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP), including behavior definitions and service definitions for cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing (e.g., using languages like C# and Selenium).
• Acquaintance with ABAP for FI, Transaction clearing, Special Ledger postings (FISL), and Contract Accounting posting (FICA).
• Experience with Fiori UI development.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

• A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation
• A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
• A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.