An ERP consulting employer based in Taramani's Tidel Park campus in Chennai is hiring a Lead SAP ABAP Consultant for a full-time, on-site position. The role sits within the company's ERP and business applications practice and reports to the SAP delivery lead for the account.
This is one of several SAP ABAP consultant jobs in Chennai open right now in the ERP space, but the lead scope here is broader than a standard consulting seat. You'd be expected to own delivery on your assigned modules rather than simply execute tickets handed down from someone else, and that distinction matters for anyone deciding whether to apply.
What the role involves
Day to day, the work centers on building and maintaining SAP ABAP objects that support the client's live business processes, then keeping those objects stable as requirements shift. At the lead level, that also means guiding how the smaller pieces of a project fit together, not just writing the code for one of them.
- Design, develop, and customize SAP ABAP programs, reports, interfaces, and enhancements across active SAP modules
- Sit with business stakeholders to translate how they actually work into process flows the SAP system can support
- Debug and resolve issues that surface during go-live and rollout, including production defects under time pressure
- Provide post-launch support and stabilization once a module or enhancement has gone live
- Review code written by junior consultants on the team and flag performance or maintainability problems before they reach production
- Act as the technical point of contact for one or two client modules, coordinating with functional consultants on both sides
None of this is unusual for SAP work, but the volume of rollout issues that show up in the first two weeks after go-live tends to be heavier than people expect, and the lead fields most of them while also supporting the rest of the team.
Qualifications and experience
A bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, business administration, or a closely related field is the baseline requirement here. The company hasn't specified a particular vendor certification as mandatory, though a functional or technical SAP certification tends to carry real weight for lead-level candidates, since it's one of the few concrete signals of depth the employer can check quickly.
On the experience side, the posting calls for 120 months of hands-on SAP work, which puts a realistic candidate around a decade into their SAP career, with most of it spent in ABAP development rather than adjacent roles. Naukri Mitra lists this among jobs for experienced professionals in Chennai's ERP market specifically because a decade of runway is what it takes to have led at least one full implementation cycle, not just contributed to one.
Skills
The required technical foundation is SAP ABAP development itself, working knowledge of SAP modules relevant to the client's landscape, strong debugging ability under production conditions, and a solid grasp of how the underlying business processes actually run.
- SAP ABAP programming, including reports, interfaces, enhancements, and custom development
- Working familiarity with core SAP modules and how they connect to each other
- Debugging live production issues, not only development-environment testing
- Practical understanding of the business processes the SAP system is built to support
Beyond the required list, candidates with exposure to S/4HANA migrations, ABAP Objects and object-oriented programming, or SAP Fiori and UI5 development will stand out. Familiarity with basic SAP Basis administration or performance tuning is a plus but won't be a dealbreaker if everything else lines up. Exposure to integration work between SAP and non-SAP systems, even at a basic level, also helps, since most rollouts at this employer eventually run into at least one interface that wasn't part of the original scope.
Communication matters more than the job title suggests. A lead who can explain a technical blocker to a non-technical stakeholder without losing the client's confidence saves the delivery lead a lot of firefighting later in the project.
Compensation and work setup
This is an on-site, full-time position based at the employer's Taramani office, close to Tidel Park in Chennai, so it isn't a fit for anyone specifically looking for remote work. The salary goes up to ₹1,88,500 a month, which is roughly what an SAP ABAP consultant salary in Chennai looks like at the lead level, once you factor in the seniority and client-facing responsibility involved.
- Health insurance coverage for the employee
- Paid time off in line with standard full-time entitlements
- Performance-linked bonuses tied to project delivery and client satisfaction
- On-site cafeteria access at the Taramani campus
- Cab or commute support, common for on-site roles at this location
Team and working style
The wider team includes ABAP developers, functional consultants, and a couple of project managers who split time across two or three client accounts at once. Context-switching between accounts is routine here, so someone who needs a single, unchanging project to stay productive may find the pace uneven at times. That said, most consultants on the team have been in place for a while, and there's enough internal documentation from past rollouts that a new lead isn't starting from scratch.
Reporting lines are fairly flat for a team this size. The lead consultant works directly with the delivery lead on scoping and status, but day-to-day technical calls, including which enhancement gets built first or how a defect gets triaged, sit with whoever's leading that particular module. New leads typically shadow an existing account for two to three weeks before taking on independent ownership of a client relationship, which gives enough runway to learn the specific quirks of that client's SAP landscape before being on the hook for it.
Category and market context
This posting falls under ERP and Business Applications, a category that in Chennai tends to run on longer project cycles than product-company software roles, since implementations and rollouts are measured in months rather than sprints. Companies hiring SAP ABAP consultants in Chennai generally draw from a fairly small, experienced talent pool at the lead level, which is part of why the experience bar on this posting sits where it does rather than lower.
How to apply
Interested candidates should apply through the listing with an updated resume that clearly shows SAP ABAP project history, the modules worked on, and any certifications held. Shortlisted applicants can expect a technical screening focused on ABAP debugging and design questions, followed by a conversation with the delivery lead about the specific client account this role supports. Applications from candidates currently based in or near Chennai will move fastest given the on-site requirement.
