Lead Consultant - SAP Basis

Job Title:

Lead Consultant – SAP BASIS

Career Level:

E

Introduction To Role

This is an opportunity to lead innovative SAP operations that power the development of life-changing medicines. Join us at the center of our SAP landscape transformation! We are modernizing our SAP platforms, scaling S/4

HANA, and applying agentic AI and AIOps to deliver zero-touch, resilient operations.

You will partner with architects, BASIS engineers, application teams, and cloud specialists as we streamline end-to-end SAP operations across ABAP and HANA. How would you design automation agents and self-healing pipelines that cut toil and accelerate recovery, while improving reliability where it matters most—supporting the science, manufacturing, and supply chains that reach patients

Accountabilities

Platform Architecture and Sizing:
Guide high-level architecture decisions, system sizing, and infrastructure requirements for large-scale SAP systems, ensuring designs meet performance, security, and cost objectives.
End-to-End Technical Leadership:
Provide technical leadership and continuous improvement ideas to define objectives and deliver outcomes that elevate the SAP estate.
Integration Strategy:
Advise on technical approaches for systems integrating with SAP, aligning interfaces, identities, and data flows for robust, scalable operations.
Roadmap and Transformation:
Define the SAP platform roadmap and recommend best practices for digital enablement, migrations, and modernization across the enterprise.
Product Ownership for Technology-Enhanced Operations:
Lead the SAP operations product with advanced capabilities as a senior individual contributor—design to production—setting vision, guardrails, and measurable impact.
Agentic AI within Operations:
Define and lead all aspects of agentic AI that automates detection and remediation, creates self-healing pipelines, and orchestrates event-driven workflows aligned to run/operate SLOs.
AIOps and Observability:
Lead implementation of observability, predictive analytics, and AIOps to reduce toil, improve MTTR, and enhance resilience spanning the ABAP and HANA systems.
Autonomous Remediation:
Design AI agents to auto-detect and remediate BASIS issues, from enqueue server failures and dialog queue build-ups to long-running jobs, start/stop anomalies, and HANA memory pressure.
Zero-Touch Automation:
Integrate AI-powered runbooks with Ansible and hyperscaler automation (AWS Systems Manager, Azure Automation, GCP Cloud Ops) to enable closed-loop actions and zero-touch recovery.
Cloud Reference Architectures:
Define reference architectures for SAP on cloud—networking, HA/DR, security, backup/recovery, scaling—with infrastructure as code and immutable/desired-state configurations.
Influence and Partnership:
Drive technical outcomes without formal line management authority, crafting architecture and partnering across BASIS, application, data, security, and cloud teams to deliver business value.

Essential Skills/Experience

Deep understanding of SAP Basis workstream and hands-on leadership across SAP components such as SAP ECC, SAP APO, SAP BW, SAP Solution Manager, SAP Fiori, SAP BO, SAP GRC, and SAP SLD.
At least one full lifecycle SAP S/4

HANA implementation and support experience.
Cloud implementation and migration experience on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure hyperscalers.
Knowledge of hardware infrastructure (IBM/HP/Dell) running SAP systems.
In-depth skills and expertise in Service Management, Release Management, and Technical Deployment.
Good communication skills, leadership abilities, and customer management.
Working knowledge of latest SAP offerings such as SAP BTP, Cloud ALM, SAP Build, SAP Data Sphere, SAP Integration Suite, and migration/greenfield S/4

HANA patterns.
Infrastructure as code (Terraform), configuration management (Ansible), CI/CD (Git Hub Actions/Azure Dev Ops/Git Lab), and OS-level automation for Linux distributions commonly used by HANA.
Practical use of AI agents or machine learning for anomaly detection, runbook automation, and remediation; ability to engineer event models and guardrails for safe operations.

Desirable Skills/Experience

SAP certifications (e.g., Basis/HANA, S/4

HANA) and…