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- Remote (Barcelona)
- English
- Required
- Experience
- Senior level
- Benefits
- Private health insurance, meal vouchers
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Skills
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Strong ABAP fundamentals (reports, classes, interfaces, enhancements, exits)
- Proficiency with Open SQL, internal tables, and modularization concepts
- Experience creating and consuming basic CDS views
- Ability to consume and expose OData services at a foundational level
- Solid debugging capabilities: ABAP debugger, dumps (ST22), performance analysis (SAT, SQL trace)
- Familiarity with the S/4HANA data model, including key simplification topics
- Experience with transport management and the SAP development lifecycle
- Understanding of authorization concepts and security basics
Ability to follow clean-core principles and SAP's extension guidelines
Pay & benefits
What you'll get
- Work with global enterprise clients
- Learn fast with mentorship, certifications, and career growth
- Make a real impact in a company where ideas are welcome
- Flexible work setup (remote/hybrid)
- People-first culture with a global mindset
In addition to a competitive compensation package, Protera offers a company meal card, private health insurance, and an office full of complimentary snacks and coffee
The role
What you'll do
The Senior SAP Engineer - Core will be responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and optimizing clean-core SAP S/4HANA extensions and ABAP‑based services across complex enterprise landscapes. This role requires deep hands‑on engineering capability, modern ABAP proficiency, and the ability to collaborate across SAP and BTP technology stacks.
You will work across the following areas:
- Advanced ABAP OO development, including refactoring legacy custom code into modern, maintainable clean‑core patterns
- ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) for both managed and unmanaged scenarios, including behavior definitions and service binding models
- CDS‑based domain modeling, including ABAP CDS, analytical/consumption views, annotations for OData/UI, and semantic modeling best practices
- OData V2/V4 service design, performance tuning, service exposure patterns, and backend optimization for scalable UI consumption
- SAP BTP integration patterns, spanning CAP ↔ ABAP interoperability, side‑by‑side extensions, event‑driven architectures, and hybrid S/4 + BTP design
- Event‑driven ABAP using Business Events, RAP event handlers, and event-based orchestration across systems
- Enterprise security architectures, including OAuth2 connectivity, principal propagation, role/authorization concepts, and secure extension strategies
- Performance and scalability optimization in S/4HANA, including SQL pushdown, AMDP considerations, memory/performance tracing, and advanced debugging
- Cross‑stack engineering collaboration with CAP/Node.js services, SAPUI5/Fiori teams, and the Integration Suite
- Modern debugging and distributed tracing, working across ABAP, SAP BTP services, and integration touchpoints
- Mentorship and engineering leadership, including code reviews, solution design support, and participation in architectural discussions
This role requires strong technical leadership, hands‑on delivery, and the ability to shape high‑quality, clean‑core SAP solutions.
Hiring process
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About Protera
Protera is a global managed services provider specializing in SAP application management, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity. The company operates at scale, supporting enterprise clients with mission-critical SAP environments across multiple industries, with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.
In Spain, Protera has established a presence to tap into the region's deep pool of SAP and engineering talent. The company's work culture emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration, and a global delivery model, making it an attractive option for international professionals with SAP expertise. With a role like Sr. SAP Engineer - Core, Protera offers opportunities to work on complex, enterprise-level projects while being part of a growing global team.
- Founded
- 2017
- Employees
- 500–1,000
- Headquarters
- Chicago, USA
- In Spain
- Madrid
- Website
- protera.com
Good to know if you are moving
- Protera has a global delivery model, meaning employees in Spain collaborate with teams across the US, Europe, and Latin America.
- The company focuses on SAP technologies, offering strong career growth for SAP engineers and consultants.
- Protera's Spain office is in Madrid, a major European tech hub with a growing international community.
- The company emphasizes a culture of continuous learning and certification, which can be valuable for career development.
- As a managed services provider, Protera offers exposure to large enterprise clients and complex SAP environments.
In their own words
About the company & team
Welcome to Protera Technologies, where we're reimagining how SAP-centric organizations work in the cloud. Since 1998, we've been pioneers in bringing SAP and related applications to the cloud-think Microsoft Azure and AWS. Our global crew, spanning the US with offices in Chicago (HQ), Athens, Greece, Barcelona, Spain and Mumbai, India, is on a mission to make IT smoother, faster, and more fun for our clients.
But here's the thing: we're not your typical "serious tech company." While we're obsessed with delivering top-notch IT solutions, we're all about keeping it real, approachable, and enjoyable. We work hard, but we also play hard-whether we're collaborating on cloud optimizations, enhancing security, or just hanging out as a team.
At Protera, we believe in empowering SAP-centric organizations with the best tools and tech to drive growth, and we love what we do. Our values? Simple: stay curious, stay authentic, and make meaningful connections. We celebrate wins big and small, whether it's a successful project or a fun team event.
If you're looking for a place where tech and fun collide, come join us and see what makes Protera a great place to work.
Additional information
Protera is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
