Senior SAP BASIS & HANA Leader

Requisition Number: 29475

The Principal SAP BASIS/HANA Leader will be responsible for leading the support and administration of all SAP activities and implementations. This includes planning, coordination, and implementation of all changes in SAP including performance and tuning analysis, capacity planning, systems support and planning, application support, and software upgrades. Additionally, the role will provide training and mentoring for junior staff and oversee the work of junior staff and contractors to ensure quality results.

• Provide administration and technical core competencies for tasks including installations and upgrades, problem determination and resolution, software patching, support package application, performance tuning, and project sizing. Functions as Technical Lead on projects; may lead multiple concurrent projects.
• Participate in multi-landscape design solutions, architecture recommendations, and client strategies for continuous improvement.
• Administer SAP implementations and upgrades in multiple environments, including SAP CRM, ECC, BI, Business Warehouse, Business Objects, Portal, and Solution Manager deployed on SAP HANA.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of the Portal landscape upgrades and patches.
• Provide training and guidance and oversee work of staff/contractors to ensure quality results.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in technical discipline and provide analytical skills to evaluate system performance, system health checks, and implementation of tuning improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and participate in technical projects across multiple teams.

• Work closely with SAP Functional Teams to coordinate and ensure complete enhancements to the company’s enterprise-wide SAP implementation.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in technical discipline; mentor and guide junior staff in use of procedures, standards, and facilities. Develop and drive standard practices within the team and collaborate with other IT groups to support IT infrastructure requirements.
• Work with Server System administrators and Database Administrators to design, develop, test and implement solutions, maintain system setup, enhancements, and backups of critical data.

• Document the design and landscape of all SAP environments.
• Prepare and present status reports, and technical analysis of relevant issues.
• Acquire and maintain knowledge of business unit processes/functions relevant to projects and application support assignments, and maintain appropriate technical skills.
• Coordinate activities and interactions with auditing team to ensure procedure integrity and security.

• Basic familiarity with business processes and functions.
• Working knowledge of COBIT5 IT Governance & Management framework or other structured industry standard methodologies.
• Excellent verbal, written, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Familiar with regulatory and compliance items governing IT.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information/Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems, or equivalent discipline.
• Preferred:
  Master’s degree in a Management or Technical discipline.
• Seven years of experience in SAP with a minimum of three years of experience in SAP HANA modeling and database procedural languages.
• Experience in the full life cycle of large and complex enterprise services with minimum of 2 years of experience in implementing SAP HANA solutions.
• ITIL Foundation certification (at hire or within 12 months in position).
• Preferred:
  Certifications in COBIT framework.

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