SAP Basis Consultant

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Business Unit:
Discovery Bank

Function:
Banking

Date: 29 Aug 2026

About Discovery

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best.

As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating - not only to achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

About Discovery Bank

We're the world's first behavioural bank, designed with our clients in mind. We haven't changed just one thing, we've changed everything. Our main goal is to improve the financial health of our clients by helping change how they work with their money. Through Vitality Money, our clients will learn more about what it means to be financially healthy and get rewarded for managing their money well.

If you are a problem solver, always questioning the way things are done, passionate about doing what is right, have the ability to change direction quickly when needed and love to dazzle your clients, Discovery Bank could be the place for you.

We welcome inspired, positive and committed people to apply for jobs in Discovery Bank where you will be liberated to realise your full potential.

Job Purpose

The SAP Basis Consultant is responsible for the management of the SAP environment, this includes the underlying SAP database systems, for both HANA and Microsoft SQL. The incumbent is responsible for configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis.
Key Outcomes may include but are not limited to

• Provide daily support to production support teams and End-Users with any incidents, requests, technical and performance problems
• Implements and maintains the multiple SAP systems that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training and production).
• Identify issues and problems with SAP systems and implement solutions to optimize the SAP environments.
• Maintains the integrity of the SAP environment by managing the SAP Change and Transport System (CTS) to
• ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly.
• Introduces technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
• Designs and implements optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
• Installs and configures all required SAP database servers and application servers.
• Distributes the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workload.
• Maintains SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
• Administers the SAP Solution Manager systems within the Bank.
• Develops and maintains system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
• Provide support for Disaster Recovery and DR testing as required

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) or equivalent technical work experience.
• 6 years of experience in SAP database administration, with prior experience with SAP R/3 and HANA in a Linux (preferably RHEL) environment.
• 6 plus years’ experience in SAP Basis,
• A vast knowledge and background in SAP high availability infrastructure and design.
• Knowledge in running SAP HANA database systems.
• Knowledge in running SAP HANA databases on RHEL clusters.
• Knowledge is configuring and administrating SAP HANA database High Availability solutions
• Knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system
• Knowledge in running SAP on Microsoft SQL database environments.
• Knowledge in running SAP on VMware.
• Knowledge in running SAP Lifecycle management processes using SAP solution Manager.

Technical Skills or Knowledge

• A completion of at least 4 implementation projects.
• Supported at least 4 upgrade projects, for Both SAP ABAP and JAVA systems.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.