SAP Basis Architect Progression

Job title: – SAP Basis Architect
Location: – Tampa, FL 33607
Duration: – 06 Months
Department: Enterprise & Customer Platforms / SAP Center of Excellence
Position Concept

• The SAP Basis resource will be the focal point for systems administration functions across all SAP landscapes, including SAP ECC, Portal, CRM, BW, BOBJ/BODS, BPC, and Solution Manager applications on ABAP, Java, and .NET platforms.
• This includes, but is not limited to, the planning, coordination, and implementation of all changes related to SAP, performance and tuning analysis, capacity planning, systems support and planning, application support, and software/patching upgrades.
• This position can be hired at any level within the multi-level job family progression, based on education and experience.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• SAP Basis administration tasks include installations and upgrades, problem determination and resolution, software patching, support package application, performance tuning, and project sizing.
• Uses analytical skills to evaluate system performance, system health checks and implementation of tuning improvements.
• Participation in multi-landscape design solutions, architecture recommendations, and client strategies for continuous improvement.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of the Portal landscape upgrades and patches.
• Work closely with SAP Functional Team Leads to coordinate and ensure complete enhancements to company’s enterprise-wide SAP ECC and CRM/B (ISU) implementations.
• Technical leadership and participation in technical projects across multiple teams.

SAP Basis Architect
Level of Responsibility

• The SAP Basis Architect (SBA) is responsible for supporting leadership in creating and communicating an SAP systems architecture that supports client’s business strategy in a robust yet cost effective way.
• The SBA creates and maintains all client SAP related IT technology standards, solution/design templates, governance processes, and procedures for ensuring compliance.
• This role supports leadership in driving client’s use of SAP and related technologies across all geographic areas, businesses, and functions while providing guidance as needed on key strategic projects to ensure appropriate understanding of impacts (costs, effort, etc.) on requirements as well as to ensure consistency with strategic technology direction.
• The SBA is responsible for ensuring that the IT infrastructure not only meets the immediate needs of the business, but also does so in a manner that will allow scalability.
• The SBA is responsible for strategic thinking in regards to the future needs that may arise in all areas of the enterprise and influence the acceptance of new technologies that drive consistency, efficiency & agility to the organization.

Qualifications Education

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent IT discipline (MIS).
• Preferred: Master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent IT discipline (MIS).

Licenses/Certifications
Required: N/A

• Preferred: SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP Solution Manager; SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA; SAP Certified Technology Associate – System Administration

Experience
Required:

• Minimum of twelve years of work experience related to the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities of this position is required.
• Experience in defining and driving a current and future state architectural BASIS roadmap that ensures that all initiatives are aligned with the goals of the business and projects are completed with the highest level of quality.
• HANA Administration and Business Suite on HANA administration experience.
• Proven track record of creating, delivering and managing the logical and physical design and implementation of a fully integrated enterprise environment.
• Experience in leading focus groups, working to align Business and IT organizations. Served in a technical leadership capacity on one or more SAP landscape implementations, upgrade initiatives, or database migrations.
• Preferred: Integration experience from an on premise ECC solution with SAP HANA Cloud solutions (e.g., SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur, etc.) and HANA Cloud Integration as a middleware.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities (KSA)
Required: Must have a proven track record and dedicated experience in support of the following areas of SAP Architecture:

• Strong hands-on implementation and support experience working with the latest releases of SAP ECC, CRM, ISU, BW, and Solution Manager in a SQL server or SAP HANA Database environment across multiple clustered on premise and/or Cloud based solutions
• Strong knowledge of multi-system landscape architecture and integration aspects between heterogeneous system technologies (Global focus desired), in the areas of build and support for ECC, CRM, PI, EP, BW and HANA
• Experience with SAP NetWeaver administration and technical core tasks in windows environment including SAP software installation, upgrade, applying Support Packages, patches and fixes, installation of add-on software components, workload analysis, etc.
• Ability to support technical implementations across the SAP system landscape as it evolves (i.e., development, test, staging and production) with in-depth knowledge in the SAP technical areas.
• Capable of establishing design, implementation, monitoring and optimization processes and procedures across SAP landscapes and dependent technologies
• Ability to work cross organization, cross vendor and cross business on a regular basis and conduct vendor/technology agnostic evaluations
• Ability to develop application roadmaps for SAP products including Solution Manager and GRC in support of Business requirements for use of products
• Deep knowledge of SAP sizing technologies and quick sizer; ability to work with business to ensure supporting data is valid and correct
• Ability to translate business data into infrastructure requirements on multiple platforms and OS technologies (including Cloud)
• Understanding of SAP and non-SAP front-end, mobile, access (including external), security requirements and tools (load balancers, web dispatcher, SAP GW’s) to enable access to SAP applications and ability to design and recommend supporting infrastructure requirements.