SAP Basis Lead

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This role is responsible for the end‑to‑end management of the complex SAP Landscape encompassing multiple SAP products including SAP's SaaS solutions. Deep technical expertise and hands‑on experience in SAP Systems' Lifecycle management, Systems' Maintenance and Operations, supporting the SAP Integration, GRC/Security and Development teams' requirements are needed.

• Design, build, test, and deploy the SAP Systems (S/4
  
  HANA, BTP Solutions/Services, Other SAP SaaS solutions like CALM, SAC, Ariba, IBP, Datasphere).
• Implement the technical approach of all SAP and non‑SAP systems integrating with SAP solutions and manage SAP and third‑party dependencies related to the SAP environment.
• SAP System landscape management in operations and project scenarios including transports across different SAP systems using CALM and cTMS.
• Plan and manage SAP system maintenance schedule, DR testing, in coordination with internal and external stakeholders like SAP ECS (RISE).
• Deep understanding of SAP best practices on backup and recovery.
• Performance tuning and configuration, troubleshooting and RCA related to HANA DB, S/4
  
  HANA, other SAP SaaS solutions.
• Understanding the structure and setup of Fiori roles and Workzone.
• Implementation, upgrade, and support of the latest SAP system versions, running on Windows/Linux OS and HANA DB.
• Good knowledge of hyperscalers—preferably Azure and GCP; good understanding of infrastructure components like firewalls and load balancers.
• Timely communicate status, issues, and risks to all stakeholders, cross‑functional teams, and managers.
• Experience in implementing CALM for both implementation and operations scenarios for various backend SAP systems (change control, monitoring, etc.).
• Help manage issues and risks to ensure the timely implementation of projects, including carrying out risk assessments, identifying project roadblocks, and driving mitigations and solutions.
• Work with technical and non‑technical teams, including Customer Support, Product Management, Engineering, and QA teams, to efficiently and effectively resolve project issues and escalations.
• SAP BTP Administration:
  • Managing SAP BTP subaccounts, entitlements, service instances, connectivity, etc.
  • Configuring and administering SAP BTP services.
  • Overseeing BTP landscape setup and maintenance, including SSO using different identity providers—e.g., SAP's default and Okta.
• Supporting Developments and Customizations:
  • Providing the necessary SAP Systems’ administrative support for the SAP Development teams that use RAP, CAP, and low‑code/no‑code technologies.
• Supporting Integrations:
  • Implementing integrations using SAP Cloud Connector, SAP Integration Suite, and APIs across SAP and non‑SAP products like S/4
    
    HANA, SAP BTP, GRC/IAG, and other third‑party systems, ensuring secure and reliable integrations.
• Supporting SAP GRC and Security:
  • Deep understanding of and supporting SAP GRC and Security teams in establishing and enforcing best practices for SAP S/4
    
    HANA and SAP BTP security.
  • Understanding compliance and governance needs and ensuring those practices are followed.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (required).
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (preferred).
• 10+ years of experience as a SAP Basis Administrator with hands‑on experience.
• Experience in multiple SAP implementations, upgrades, conversions, migrations, including at least one Greenfield implementation in the "RISE with SAP" context, coordinating with SAP ECS and other CSPs.
• Well versed with SAP…