What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP S/4HANA Basis Consultant - Batch & Job Scheduling position at Cognitive Minds?
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Onsite Requirement: 1 week per month
Duration: 9 months with possible extension
Experience: 12 years
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior SAP S/4HANA Technical Consultant with strong experience in enterprise job scheduling, batch processing, workload automation, and SAP S/4HANA transformation programs. The consultant will be responsible for designing, migrating, coordinating, and optimizing batch scheduling processes across SAP and non-SAP systems.
Responsibilities
Lead job scheduling and batch processing activities within SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
Design and manage SAP background jobs, scheduling dependencies, calendars, job sequences, and execution windows.
Coordinate job dependencies across SAP and non-SAP applications.
Support migration of legacy scheduling frameworks into the SAP S/4HANA environment.
Work with business, functional, technical, infrastructure, and operations teams to define and implement batch schedules.
Manage job sequencing and scheduling across multiple regions and time zones.
Implement monitoring, alerting, restart, recovery, and error-handling processes.
Automate job dependencies and workflow orchestration where possible.
Troubleshoot failed jobs, scheduling conflicts, dependency issues, and batch-processing problems.
Define scheduling standards, operational procedures, runbooks, and best practices.
Support testing, cutover, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
Ensure batch jobs meet business processing windows, performance requirements, and operational SLAs.
Required Skills
12 years of experience in enterprise job scheduling, batch processing, workload automation, or related SAP technical areas.
Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA implementation or transformation programs.
Hands-on experience with SAP background processing and job scheduling.
Experience with SAP Job Scheduling Service, SAP Central Job Scheduling, or similar SAP scheduling capabilities.
Strong experience with enterprise scheduling tools such as Control-M, Autosys, Tidal, or equivalent.
Experience migrating legacy batch scheduling solutions to SAP S/4HANA.
Strong understanding of job dependencies, predecessor/successor relationships, calendars, triggers, and batch windows.
Experience coordinating jobs across SAP and non-SAP systems.
Experience with SAP BTP Job Scheduling Service and integrations.
Strong troubleshooting and production support experience.
Ability to create technical documentation, scheduling standards, process flows, and operational runbooks.
Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional communication skills.
Preferred Skills
SAP S/4HANA Fashion or Retail experience.
Experience supporting large-scale global SAP environments.
Experience coordinating batch processing across multiple regions and time zones.
Knowledge of SAP interfaces, IDocs, APIs, file-based integrations, and middleware.
Experience with monitoring and automation frameworks for enterprise batch operations.