Directly manage, mentor, and task-assign the SAP Basis technical team
Lead the administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, ALM, Cloud Connector, etc.)
Technical Leadership for SAP Basis operations, establishing best practices, standards, and operational guidelines
Design, plan, and execute SAP system upgrades, system refreshes, kernel updates, database migrations, and patch implementations (Support Packages/Stack)
Manage backup/recovery strategies, high availability (HA) setups, and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills
Oversee SAP system security, user authorization concepts, transport management, and audit compliance protocols
Manage day-to-day work for internal Basis engineers to ensure strict adherence to SLAs
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
10+ years of SAP Basis experience with proven experience as SAP Basis Lead / Technical Lead
Strong hands-on experience with SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, SAP HANA)
Expertise in SAP Basis administration, upgrades, migrations, system refreshes, kernel updates, and performance tuning
Strong knowledge of SAP Security, user authorization, roles, and audit compliance
Experience managing SAP Basis teams and ensuring SLA compliance
Experience with HA/DR, backup & recovery strategies