SAP BASIS Architect
Diversified Technology, Inc.
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Skills
- SAP
- SAP BASIS Administration
- SAP Cloud
- SAP BASIS
- SAP IS-U
Summary
WHO WE ARE:
Founded in 2007, DTI (Diversified Technology, Inc.) is a successful African American owned IT Consulting/Staffing firm based in Chicago''s Loop.
WHAT WE DO:
We focus on providing delivery, staffing, and supported services such as enterprise integration/implementations including, but not limited to, CRM, EAM, ERP, PMO, and QA. We service clients in SLED (state/local gov''t & education), financial services, fortune, public utility, as well as regularly partnering with Big 4 SI partners.
SAP Basis / Technology Architect – SAP S/4HANA RISE (Utilities CIS Transformation)
Location: Columbus, Ohio (Hybrid / Travel Required)
Duration: Multi-Year Engagement
Travel Requirements: Candidates must be willing and able to travel based on client and project needs. A travel schedule will be provided in advance and may vary throughout the program lifecycle.
Overview
Our public utility client is undertaking a large-scale, multi-year Customer Information System (CIS) Transformation Program that will modernize core customer, billing, meter-to-cash, and operational business processes through the implementation of SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition under SAP RISE.
We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis / Technology Architect to lead the design, provisioning, administration, optimization, and governance of the SAP technical landscape supporting this enterprise transformation initiative. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in SAP Basis administration, SAP HANA database administration, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Cloud Connector, transport management, system performance optimization, disaster recovery planning, and SAP RISE operations within complex utility environments.
This role will serve as the primary technical authority for SAP platform architecture, collaborating closely with SAP, hyperscaler providers, implementation partners, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to ensure a secure, scalable, and high-performing SAP ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
SAP Architecture & Technical Leadership
- Define and govern the SAP technical architecture supporting SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition under SAP RISE.
- Lead SAP Basis strategy, environment planning, system landscape design, and technical governance activities.
- Provide technical leadership across development, testing, training, staging, and production environments.
- Establish SAP platform standards, operational procedures, monitoring practices, and technical controls.
SAP Basis Administration
- Provision, configure, administer, and support SAP S/4HANA PCE environments.
- Perform system installations, upgrades, patching, kernel updates, and support package implementation.
- Manage SAP client administration, transport management, system copies, and environment refreshes.
- Monitor and optimize SAP application performance, system health, and operational stability.
- Troubleshoot complex SAP Basis issues and coordinate resolution with SAP and infrastructure providers.
SAP HANA Administration
- Administer SAP HANA databases supporting SAP S/4HANA environments.
- Perform database monitoring, tuning, backup management, recovery testing, and performance optimization.
- Support database upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management activities.
- Analyze system performance and implement improvements to maximize scalability and reliability.
SAP BTP & Cloud Integration
- Configure and administer SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) global accounts, subaccounts, entitlements, and connectivity.
- Design and support integrations between SAP S/4HANA PCE and SAP BTP services.
- Configure and maintain SAP Cloud Connector environments.
- Support SAP Integration Suite, extensions, APIs, and cloud-based integration architectures.
- Collaborate with development teams on extension and side-by-side innovation strategies.
SAP Cloud ALM (CALM)
- Configure and administer SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations management.
- Establish monitoring dashboards, alerting, health checks, and operational reporting.
- Support project governance, testing management, deployment tracking, and operational readiness activities.
- Develop procedures for proactive monitoring and issue management.
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Design and support High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, validation, and execution exercises.
- Coordinate failover testing and recovery validation activities.
- Ensure compliance with utility business continuity and operational resiliency requirements.
Environment & Release Management
- Manage transport strategies, release management processes, and deployment coordination.
- Support environment refreshes, client copies, and landscape synchronization activities.
- Ensure proper segregation of duties and change management controls.
- Coordinate technical deployments across multiple project workstreams.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between the client, SAP RISE, hyperscaler providers, and implementation partners.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams.
- Participate in architecture reviews, governance boards, and executive-level status reporting.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to project teams and support organizations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years of SAP Basis administration experience.
- 3+ years of experience supporting SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud Edition under SAP RISE.
- Experience supporting large-scale utility industry SAP environments.
- Hands-on experience with SAP HANA database administration.
- Experience administering SAP Cloud ALM (CALM).
- Experience configuring and supporting SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
- Experience configuring SAP Cloud Connector.
- Strong experience with SAP transport management and release management processes.
- Experience performing system upgrades, refreshes, migrations, and technical cutovers.
- Experience supporting High Availability and Disaster Recovery environments.
- Experience troubleshooting complex SAP technical issues across enterprise landscapes.
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture, security, networking, and infrastructure concepts.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Customer Information System (CIS) transformation programs.
- Experience within electric, gas, water, or public utility organizations.
- Experience supporting SAP IS-U, SAP FICA, SAP Billing, Device Management, or Meter-to-Cash programs.
- Experience integrating SAP BTP services with SAP S/4HANA PCE environments.
- Experience working directly with SAP RISE operations teams and hyperscaler providers.
- Experience supporting utility modernization or digital transformation initiatives.
- Experience participating in disaster recovery exercises and production cutovers.
- SAP Technology, SAP Basis, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud ALM, or SAP BTP certifications.
Key Success Factors
The successful candidate will bring a combination of deep SAP technical expertise, utility industry experience, cloud architecture knowledge, and leadership capabilities necessary to support one of the client''s most critical enterprise transformation initiatives. This individual must be comfortable operating in a highly visible role, collaborating across multiple stakeholders, and ensuring the long-term stability, scalability, and performance of the SAP landscape supporting the future-state CIS platform.
Pay rate: $105-$112hr depending on experience
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DTI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under Illinois state or federal law. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, and business needs.
- Dice Id: dti
- Position Id: 8993863
- Posted 7 days ago
Company Info
38 Year Heritage of Service
Diversified Telecommunications Inc., (DTI) was founded in 1985, as a pay phone provider. Knowing the needs of the communities it served brought DTI early success. Because DTI was an independent payphone company with lower overhead, it was able to offer a much larger percentage of the phones’ revenues to retailers than bigger providers, such as Illinois Bell, could offer. With the proliferation of cell phones, the pay phone business began to dwindle. Looking ahead DTI had already begun exploring the information technology services arena and found two areas in which to expand their business.
Expanding into Network and IT Consulting
The first area of expansion was in network infrastructure. This included network cabling, which was a logical extension of the phone business. With the growth of business networks, it was a smart move. DTI has been offering network cabling, including network design, pre-project planning, structured cabling systems and on-site technicians, since 1994. Based on the success of the network infrastructure business, Diverse Technologies, Inc. was created in 2008 to provide network communication technicians from I.B.E.W. Local 134, project managers, project coordinators and of course account managers to offer an expanded set of Network Services to help ensure clients expectations were exceeded from beginning to end.
The second area of expansion is IT Consulting, including ERP implementations, software application design and development, computer programming, project management and supplemental staffing. DTI saw that a project often required additional sets of hands or skill sets our client did not have on staff. As opposed to hiring additional staff, they looked to DTI to fill their needs. The division, originally developed to support client needs for project assistance in 1996, grew into the establishment of Diversified Technology, Inc. in 2007.
Adjusting to a Changing Market
Into the 2000s, DTI grew at an incredible rate. It was recognized twice by the Inner City 100 as one of the fastest growing inner-city companies in America. DTI’s client list included some of the top organizations headquartered in Chicago, such as Amoco, Ameritech, and Quaker Oats. But a series of mergers and acquisitions, with corporate decisions now being made outside Chicago, resulted in DTI losing some of its large, long-term clients. Therefore, DTI transitioned once again, balancing its portfolio to include more clients in the government and education industries that aren’t susceptible to mergers and acquisitions by out-of-state corporations, developing strong relationships with some of the largest system integrators and software providers in the business, and providing its service offerings to organizations throughout the country.
Focusing on Specific Industries and Partners
Today, DTI has three services: IT Consulting, Advisory, and Network Services. Advisory is the newest offering, where DTI can provide advisory services for project management, quality assurance, and organizational change management that are software agnostic. While it supports many industries, DTI is focused on Energy, state and local government/education (SLED), and Financial Services. Its experience working with energy firms includes ERP systems, smart meters, and integrating systems to accommodate mergers and acquisitions. Its SLED practice supports state and local governments, including a specialization in transit authorities, along with the needs of K-12 as well as higher education. For financial services organizations, such as JP Morgan Chase, DTI provides IT Consulting and Advisory services.
DTI has built strong relationships with its clients, large system integrators such as Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and IBM, and software providers such as Oracle, SAP and ServiceNow. DTI has realized significant growth over the last few years following this strategy.
DTI continues to innovate and adjust to the market. It provides its clients high quality services at a reasonable price by recruiting and retaining highly desirable talent, keeping its overhead costs low with a lean and agile infrastructure, and striving to exceed its clients’ expectations.
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