Profile Updated: 10/23/2025
Position Details:
Title: SAP ABAP Developer
Department: Information Technology
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Location: Rugged Tech - MX
Job Classification: Hybrid
FLSA Status: Exempt
Job Band: Professional
Job Summary
The primary responsibility of this position is work with the SAP IT team and business users to develop ABAP solutions to challenges faced in the current SAP ERP.
Inspired by Hard Work
At Carhartt, the values of hard work—dependability, honesty, and trust—are rooted in the legacy of our founder, Hamilton Carhartt. His commitment to serving hardworking people continues to inspire everything we do. Guided by his legacy and our mission—We serve and protect all hardworking people by building durable products—we remain dedicated to upholding these principles in every decision we make and every product we create.
Associate Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate all enhancement requests from business partners. Including working with the business partners to ensure enhancement requests align with enterprise processes and systems to match Carhartt’s strategic vision
- Coordinate and review new functional business requirements and determine the impact on the production SAP environment
- Review functional requirements and develop technical designs working with functional analyst.
- Convert Technical designs into ABAP solutions that meet the business need.
- Work with business partners and IT leadership to determine priority of enhancement requests
- Day to day support and maintenance of the production environment including system monitoring
- Ensure that the technical designs comply with requirements, established methodologies, and best practices (where applicable)
- Ensure business system implications are communicated to the functional analyst and business users
- Participate/Coordinate requirements gathering sessions and documents and communicates those requirements accordingly
- Provide other technical documentation as needed including process flows, data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, etc.
- Identify, assess and mitigate process risk
- Provide work output that meets quality expectations and standards
- Produce work output that is on time and according to recurring or special deadlines
- Responsible for ongoing relationship with functional analysts, business process owners and subject matter experts
- Collaborate effectively with the technology, security, and application delivery teams regarding Production Planning business area needs
Required Education
- BA/BS in Information Technology/ Computer Science or equivalent. Work experience in systems and programming in a business environment may be considered equivalent
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum of 7+ years experience in IT is required in areas related to application development in ABAP, configuration, or support of ERP systems, inclusive of the following experience:
- 5+ years in SAP ABAP related to development
- Business process expertise and a solid understanding of integrated end-to-end processes. Solid understanding of the integration PTP, P2P, RTR, OTC required.
- Experience in retail or wholesale apparel is preferred.
- Experience in SAPUI5, SAP FIORI/UX, ODATA is preferred.
- Knowledge of SAP-AFS or S/4 Fashion is preferred.
- Proven ability to lead the development of systems and projects
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the proven ability to communicate with all levels including management and retail partners
- Ability to fluently read, write and speak both English and Spanish
- Outstanding organizational skills with demonstrated ability to prioritize workload and attention to detail
- Flexible and responsive to new or special projects assigned
- Ability to work in a team environment with coworkers and internal customers
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
- Hybrid work environment – mix of on-site and work from home.
- Typical office environment; cubicle setting. Extended periods of time sitting, standing, typing on a computer is required.
- Willing to work some weekends if necessary.
- Travel required (up to 15%).
- Carhartt is a tobacco free workplace.
