What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead SAP Administrator position at Talent Groups?
Hybrid Details: Phoenix, AZ - Hybrid
Duration: 4 months to start (with potential for conversion)
Job Description
Duration: 4 months to start (with potential for conversion)
Job Description
- The SAP Basis Lead is responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing the SAP technical landscape across ECC, S/4HANA, BW, CPI, BTP, Solution Manager, and related SAP systems.
- This role oversees Basis administration activities, ensures system availability and performance, manages upgrades and migrations, and leads a team of Basis administrators to deliver stable and secure SAP environments.
- Design, implement, and maintain SAP system landscapes (ECC, BW, Enterprise Portal, Solution Manager, GRC, SLT, BTP, S/4HANA, SAP CAR, SuccessFactors, Cloud ALM).
- Plan and execute system copies, refreshes, upgrades, and patching.
- Ensure integration with external systems and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, BTP).
- Monitor and tune system performance, including database, memory, and job performance.
- Implement proactive health checks and automation to reduce downtime.
- Oversee user administration, roles, and authorizations.
- Ensure compliance with IT security and audit standards (e.g., SOX).
- Develop and manage disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and system restores.
- Validate DR readiness through regular testing.
- Lead Basis activities for SAP projects (migrations, upgrades, new implementations).
- Partner with functional, development, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless project delivery.
- Lead and mentor Basis administrators (onsite/offshore).
- Coordinate with SAP, hardware, and cloud vendors for issue resolution.
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field
- 10 years hands-on SAP Basis Administration experience
- Experience in SAP installations, system copies, kernel upgrades, and performance tuning
- Expertise in database administration primarily HANA and Oracle.
- Experience with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services and SAP RISE methodology
- Deep understanding of SAP HANA architecture, backup/recovery, and performance optimization.
- Experience managing SAP cloud solutions (Certificates, outages, SLAs, etc.)
- Familiarity with Operating systems Linux, Windows
- Familiarity with high-availability and failover setups using clustering and load balancing.
- Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong Leadership and Project Management skills
- SAP HANA, SAP OS/DB Migration SAP Certification is a plus
- SAP S/4HANA on Cloud deployments or migrations is a plus
- Experience with automation and monitoring tools (e.g., Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM).
- Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Datasphere ( Nice to have)
- Exposure to SAP security and GRC integration.