Go from functional consultant to a technical consultant?

[former_member1250743]

Hello everybody. I'll tell you my history. I am 23 years old, I'm from Argentina and I'm a functional FICO consultant. At the age of 18 I began the career of accountancy at the university. A few months later I started working as a trainee on the FICO module. I have experience in various roll out implementations of SAP projects and I learned a lot in these years. I consider myself a young man with the ability to learn new things and face new challenges. Some time ago I discovered that I'm passionate about software development. Even a year ago I changed my university degree. Now I'm studying to be a software engineer. I have small personal projects in different languages, such as js, python, c ++ and other programming languages. My intention is to start working as a developer and my question is: is it a good idea to move to Abap or Ui5? My intention is to be able to detect needs, design solutions and develop those solutions. Is sap a system that allows to squeeze the skills of software developers to the maximum? I understand that the sap profile is for people interested in understanding the operation of the business but not for people passionate about software development, technology, etc. I also feel that the world of software is huge and it's updated every day, while Abap/Ui5 is only a small part of that world and it's out of that advance technology and it has many limitations in terms of creativity and how to solve problems. I feel that if I do abap I would only be dedicating myself to writing code and nothing more. This is my opinion and I haven't experience like abap developer. What do you think? Thank you!

[moshenaveh]

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[former_member1716]

rcrespo,

I would like to disagree on some of your understandings!

ABAP and UI5 are certainly interesting flavors for a person to become a developer. The scope for a SAP consultant does not just stop with ABAP or with UI5. They are a very wide area with lot of facets covered, I would highly recommend you to go through the below Learning Journey Links for a better understanding!

ABAP Programming with SAP NetWeaver

ABAP Programming for SAP HANA

SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori Applications

Am pretty sure you would be thrilled when you come across the learning journey above and the scope you have with it. I would also recommend you to carry over your research on extensibility concepts in SAP, the SIDE BY SIDE (SBS) Approach would elevate your interest where you can apply other programming skills. You can Start your SBS research from this BLOG which will give you a better understanding.

Cheers!! and HAPPY CODING!!!

Regards!

[sanilbhandari]

Hi rcrespo

The focus in career should be what you love doing. If coding is something that is of interest, you should move from a functional to a technical role. ABAP and UI5 are definitely absolute must for a career in technical side to start with but not the end. With the new age products like AI and ML and with more and more customers adopting it, in my view it is only a matter of time, when dual skills like yours with one hand knowing ABAP and UI5 and also knowing Python would be hot skills. I already know of few colleagues who have worked with me in my time at SAP and have these kind of skills building great products and are excellent people to reach out to at any time.

What also helps is your background in basics of finance because that is one area where there could be potential areas to work on as lot of times operational finance is repetitive and can have multiple use cases for AI and ML. The below blog might be a good starting point to look at it from a slightly different perspective than just traditional ABAP and UI5

https://blogs.sap.com/2020/12/25/resources-and-journey-to-machine-learning-with-sap-s-4hana/

Thanks & Regards

Sanil Bhandari