For landscapes where one upgrade can break years of custom code

Hire SAP Developers

An SAP landscape rarely fails all at once; it degrades through small decisions nobody revisits. Custom code written where standard functionality would have worked, an unindexed selection against a huge table, or an upgrade applied without checking for breaking changes can each cost a company dearly. These engineers are tested on catching exactly that kind of decision, then placed inside the landscape you already run.

  • Profiles typically within two business days
  • Replacement Assurance: If an engineer is not the right fit, a replacement from our own team starts within ten business days of your request, at no extra cost
  • You interview before placement if you want to
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  • 14-Day Risk-Free Trial: For your first engineer on a time-and-materials engagement. Up to 14 calendar days or 80 logged working hours, whichever comes first. End within the trial and pay nothing for trial hours. Continue beyond it and those hours are billed at the agreed rate. Unpaid trial work remains ours if you stop
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Watch · the 90-second brief

How we evaluate an SAP engineer

The tasks, the signals and the onboarding, walked through by the people who run them.

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01Published, not promised

The assessment behind every SAP engineer we send.

Five competencies make up this bar, each paired with the real task and the tell that separates a strong engineer from a plausible one. Years of module experience alone earn nothing here. What matters is whether a landscape actually holds up under real data volume.

What we listen forWhether they design for the table's actual size, not just a correct result in a small test system.

The task we set

A custom report runs fine in the test system but times out against a multi-million-row table in production. Diagnose it.

What strong sounds like
Checks for a full table scan or nested loop against the large table and rewrites the selection to use proper indexes and joins.
What gives us pause
Suggests raising the timeout limit rather than examining why the underlying selection is not using the table's indexes.
Core

ABAP · ABAP Objects · CDS Views

Modules

S/4HANA · Fiori & UI5 · ECC

Integration

IDocs · RFC & BAPI · SAP PI/PO

Tooling

ABAP Development Tools (Eclipse) · Transport Management System · SAP GUI

02Who you actually meet

The bench, priced by seniority.

Three seniority tiers, priced honestly, and the engineers who fill each one today. Real names and photos take their place as soon as we can share them, and the standard stays exactly the same.

Engineer

Features scoped tightly enough to ship inside your review bar, every time.

The right first hire when your seniors already set the standard.

$2,400–3,100per month

Senior

The hard module nobody else wants to own, taken end to end.

Ownership of a surface, without adding a manager to your headcount.

$3,400–4,300per month

Lead

The workstream's decisions, made daily, so nothing waits on a meeting.

One accountable voice for a pod or initiative that can't afford to drift.

$4,600–5,800per month

  • SAP developer

    4 yrs · US East overlap

    Rewrote a custom ABAP report that was scanning a full ledger table on every run

    • ABAP
    • S/4HANA
    • IDocs

  • Senior SAP developer

    7 yrs · UK + EU hours

    Isolated custom code from standard functionality ahead of an S/4HANA migration

    • CDS Views
    • Fiori
    • RFC Interfaces

  • Lead SAP architect

    10 yrs · EU + US split

    Owns the authorization design standard across a multi-entity SAP landscape

    • Architecture
    • Authorization Design
    • Interface Strategy

Indicative ranges, representative profiles. Exact figures and named engineers arrive with your shortlist.

Weighing this against a freelancer, a direct hire or a marketplace? See the honest comparison

03From stated problem to first change

Four steps, each closing on evidence.

This process is built to test landscape judgement rather than years-on-resume. Stopping at any point along the way costs you nothing.

  1. Name the landscape problem

    We map where your landscape is under real strain, whether that's ABAP performance, upgrade risk or a brittle interface. The brief names that exact gap, not a list of SAP modules to know.

    A brief your architects sign off on

  2. Match against your landscape

    Candidates are screened against your actual modules, your customisation history and your transport process. Three engineers who understand your landscape beat thirty who simply list SAP experience.

    Three fits, not thirty CVs

  3. Assess on real landscape tasks

    Your team can watch the performance-tuning and upgrade-safety exercises directly. What shows up is landscape judgement, not a memorised list of transaction codes.

    An evaluation you can watch

  4. Onboard into your transport process

    System access, coding standards and a first scoped change moved through your actual transport landscape. Continuity cover keeps a departure from ever stalling a release.

    A transport moving through your process by week one

04Evidence and proof

Engineers who kept a landscape upgrade-safe.

SAP proof is a landscape that survives its next upgrade, not a list of modules worked on. Every record here waits for written client approval before production.

Explore case studies
An ABAP report rebuilt for large-table performance.
Vela Ledger · Fintech SaaS, EU

A custom report rebuilt around an indexed field, not a longer timeout.

Vela Ledger's month-end reconciliation report ran fine in test but timed out against the production ledger table. An embedded SAP engineer rewrote the selection around a properly indexed field, cutting the runtime from minutes to seconds.

Report runtime
Minutes to seconds
Timeouts since fix
Zero
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of a CTO discussing an SAP report performance fix.

Our month-end report went from timing out to finishing in seconds, and nobody touched the timeout setting.

Daniel MercerCTO, Vela Ledger
Sample · pending client approval
Portrait of an operations director discussing an SAP authorization fix.

She caught an authorization gap in our SAP landscape that had gone unnoticed for over a year.

Mei TanakaDirector of Operations, Tern
Sample · pending client approval

05Three shapes, one standard

Add an engineer, a landscape pod, or a practice.

Most teams start with one engineer working inside an existing landscape. Some need a pod that owns a module or interface domain end to end. Where a broader SAP transformation is the actual need, we point you to enterprise platforms instead.

  • One named engineer

    A single SAP specialist working inside your transport process and your architects' review. The lightest commitment, and the usual starting point.

    Team extension

  • A landscape pod

    A pod with its own lead that owns a module or interface domain end to end, from design through go-live. You set priorities while the pod delivers.

    Delivery pods

  • The practice, not the person

    Where a broader SAP or S/4HANA transformation is the actual need rather than one role filled, our enterprise platforms practice takes that scope on instead.

    Enterprise Platforms

06Straight answers

Asked before an SAP hire is signed.

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What does an SAP developer actually do day to day?

Writes and tunes ABAP against large tables, decides when custom code is genuinely needed versus standard SAP functionality, and keeps interfaces to outside systems reliable. Most of the job is judgement no certification course actually covers.

Do you hire for a specific SAP module or version?

Matched to your landscape, whether that's ECC, S/4HANA or a specific module like FI or MM. The evaluation centres on custom-code and interface judgement that transfers across modules.

Can we run our own interviews as well?

Absolutely. Teams are welcome to add their own transport-review exercise on top of ours, and a few clients now do exactly that.

How fast can an SAP engineer start?

Shortlisted candidates typically appear inside a week from a continuously screened bench. Getting an engineer into your landscape from there mostly depends on how quickly access and authorizations get approved on your end.

Who manages the engineer day to day?

Your functional leads direct the work and approve every transport to production. On our side we manage payroll, bench continuity and the replacement path if an engagement needs to change course.

What if the engineer is not the right fit?

Tell us early and a substitute engineer is provided free of charge. We use the specifics of the mismatch to brief whoever comes next, so it isn't repeated.

Do your SAP engineers use AI tools?

Yes, mainly for generating repetitive ABAP scaffolding and documentation drafts. Every custom-code decision that touches upgrade safety is reviewed and owned by the engineer, not the tool.

How does pricing work for a hired SAP engineer?

Expect the figures above to frame the likely cost band; your shortlist pins down the precise rate for the engineer chosen. There's no upfront placement charge, just monthly billing and a notice-period exit.