SAP BASIS Consultant

Role Summary

The SAP Basis Consultant provides expert-level support, governance, and optimization of SAP systems within the organization’s Center of Excellence (COE). He/She will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement upgrades, migrations, and new SAP solutions. He/She will maintain multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (SAP ECC, SAP BW, Solution Manager, S4 Hana, SAC, DRC & BTP Platforms). This role involves ensuring system stability, performance, security, and compliance while driving best practices in SAP Basis administration.

Responsibilities

• Perform SAP Basis administration tasks including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of SAP systems (ECC, S/4HANA, BW, CRM, Fiori, BTP, etc.).
• Design and implement an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
• Manage and oversee SAP users, authorizations, and profiles.
• Oversee, manage and distribute the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workloads.
• Oversee and manage OS Scripts and other interfaces and interface data transfers.
• Oversee, and manage the SAP printing subsystem for all SAP instances.
• Maintain SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
• Monitor all SAP systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space, etc.)
• Administer the SAP database with Database Administrator (Hana and Oracle).
• Perform DB reorg system copies.
• Perform SAP HANA administration and planning as required like patching, HANA side CAR etc.
• Perform SAP client administration as required. 
• Define and enforce SAP Basis standards, policies, and procedures within the COE.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior Basis team members.
• Collaborate with functional teams (MM, SD, FI, etc.) to align Basis strategies with business needs. 
• Explore AIOps and DevOps integration for SAP environments.
• Work on SAP BTP Platform for services to enable including SAC and cloud connectors.
• Stay updated with SAP roadmap, new technologies, and trends. 
• Work with and in a global, cross-functional team.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades.
• Apply and migrate SAP maintenance through all systems using a structured methodology.
• Develop and maintain system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
• Provide status reports for Basis project and Ops activity to management.
• Report delivery status to customer management and develop required delivery documentations, e.g., preventive and detective processes.
• Serve as primary contact for client management, technical activity and troubleshooting issue.
• Serve as a L3 support for critical issues/tickets and handling RCA.
• Develop and manage Basis infra forecast and costing.
• Acting as the SAP solution consultant to propose and design new solutions within SAP landscape.

Requirements

• 7-10 years working in a multinational company or global services environment or a SAP consultancy company as SAP Basis & Authorizations Consultant.
• Experience in leading a team of 5 or more supporting project and operation activity.
• Strong experience in Domain of SAP Basis (SAP BC) & SAP Management of Authorizations.
• Strong experience in Basis roll-outs including S4HANA and ECC from Basis perceptive (User, Roles, Printer, Jobs and scripts management).
• Knowledge in using Solution Manager with functionality like Job monitoring, EWA, Technical Monitoring including SAP Focussed Run.
• Willing to work in 24/7 support model based on as and when required to support cross domain operations.
• Excellent communication skills in both verbally and written form.
• Can work in an independent manner, as well as integrate well into a team, ability to take initiative and change for improvements.