SAP Technical Expert Senior Associate

City: Asuncion, Belize City, Bogotá, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Christ Church, Georgetown, Guatemala City, Kingston, La Paz, Lima, Madrid, Managua, Mexico City, Montevideo, Panamá, Paramaribo, Port of Spain, Port-au-Prince, Quito, San Jose, San Salvador, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, Tegucigalpa
- Company: IDB
- Posting End Date: 1/12/2026 11:59 PM EST

**We improve lives**:
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.

**About this position**:
We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated and knowledgeable SAP Technical Expert to support our Corporate Services and People Management products. As a Technical Expert, you will be responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of software solutions while guiding a team of developers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable systems. You will serve as the primary point of technical contact within your teams, ensuring alignment with architectural standards, coding best practices, and business objectives. The role combines hands-on development with leadership and mentoring responsibilities, playing a critical role in shaping both project outcomes and team development.

You will work with the Corporate Services and People Management Product teams’ that are part of the Enterprise Product group in the Banks Technology and Transformation Department. These teams are responsible for supporting and maintaining the daily operations of our SAP Enterprise Systems of the Bank, as well as developing and implementing new projects and initiatives in our SAP landscapes that is currently being migrated to S/4 Hana

**What you’ll do**:

- Guide the technical direction of a development team, ensuring that software solutions are aligned with strategic goals and delivered on time.
- Act as both a technical expert and a team leader, balancing architectural thinking with hands-on coding and delivery.
- Work across agile teams and products to coordinate development activities and resolve technical dependencies or blockers.
- Champion engineering excellence and fosters a collaborative, high-performance development culture.
- Lead the planning, design, development, and delivery of complex software projects and system components.
- Provide hands-on coding and code reviews to ensure quality, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Collaborating with architects and other tech leads to define system architecture and technical roadmaps.
- Serve as the technical point of contact for project stakeholders, including product owners, project managers, and business analysts.
- Translate business and functional requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Coach and mentor team members, promoting professional development and knowledge sharing.
- Establish and enforce coding standards, development workflows, and technical best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across development processes and tools.
- Identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies early in the development cycle.
- Ensure alignment with DevOps, testing, security, and deployment standards.

**What you'll need**:
**Education**: Master’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or other fields relevant to the role responsibilities. In lieu of a Master Degree, a Bachelor’s Degree in one of above curriculums AND at least two certifications in the following:

- SAP Certified Development Associate - ABAP with SAP NetWeaver or similar
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP Fiori Application Developer or similar
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP HANA or similar
- SAP Certified Technology Associate - SAP System Security and Authorization or similar
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Financial Accounting or similar
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP Sourcing and Procurement or similar
- SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP HCM or similar
- Azure Fundamentals: Core knowledge of Azure services and architecture.
- Azure Data Fundamentals: Basic understanding of Azure data services.
- Azure Security Fundamentals: Introductory cloud security principles.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: Foundational AWS cloud skills.
- AWS Developer Associate: Cloud development using AWS services.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate: Design and deploy AWS architectures.
- **Key Skills**:
Strong experience in ABAP developing custom reports, interfaces, workflows, enhancements
Experience designing and implementing OData services and RESTful APIs for seamless integration with other systems.
Experience with ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
Understanding of SAP S4/HANA architecture
Knowledge of SAP BTP for side-by-side extensions and services like SAP Event Mesh.
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