SAP Basis HANA

Position: SAP Basis HANA

Location: Louisville, KY Onsite

Type of Employment: 12+ Months Contract

Role Description:

• 10 15 years of hands-on SAP BASIS administration experience supporting large-scale SAP landscapes.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA (2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023) environments.
• Extensive expertise in SAP ECC 6.0 administration and support.
• Hands-on experience with SAP BTP, Cloud Connector, destination management, and SAP integrations.
• Strong knowledge of Embedded Fiori, SAP Gateway, Fiori Launchpad, and OData services.
• Experience supporting SAP MDG landscapes.
• Deep expertise in SAP HANA Database Administration, including backup/recovery, system replication,
• performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Other Database Microsoft SQL Server and SAP ASE (Sybase).
• Proven experience in SAP S/4HANA migration and upgrade projects, including Brownfield, Greenfield, and
• DMO/SUM-based conversions.
• Strong understanding of upgrade and migration strategy, architecture planning, cutover, and go-live support.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Kernel Upgrades, Support Package Stacks, EHP upgrades, and security patch
• implementation. Expertise in quarterly system refreshes, system copies, client copies, and landscape synchronization activities.
• Strong experience in SAP ChaRM, Transport Management, and Release Management processes.
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager, monitoring tools, and system health checks.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across SAP applications, database, operating system, and interface layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, security compliance, and performance optimization

Roles & Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SAP BASIS operations across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, MDG, Embedded Fiori, and SAP BTP landscapes.
• Design and execute SAP technical architecture, upgrade, migration, and transformation strategies.
• Manage SAP installations, upgrades, migrations, refreshes, patching, and maintenance activities.
• Perform and govern quarterly system refreshes, client copies, and production landscape synchronization activities.
• Lead technical conversion projects from ECC to S/4HANA and support modernization initiatives.
• Administer and optimize SAP HANA, MS SQL Server, and SAP ASE (Sybase) databases.
• Execute SAP Kernel upgrades, Support Package implementations, and security note deployments.
• Manage SAP transport landscape and oversee release governance through SAP ChaRM.
• Configure and support SAP BTP integrations, Cloud Connector, and Embedded Fiori environments.
• Proactively monitor system performance, availability, capacity, and security.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Coordinate with infrastructure, cloud, network, security, functional, and business teams for project and support activities.
• Develop technical standards, SOPs, operational runbooks, and governance frameworks.
• Support audit, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.
• Provide technical leadership during cutovers, upgrades, migrations, and critical incidents

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong leadership and team management capabilities.
• Experience leading SAP BASIS support and project delivery teams.
• Ability to mentor and guide junior consultants and administrators.
• Excellent stakeholder, customer, and vendor management skills.
• Strong project planning, effort estimation, and resource management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, releases, and production support activities simultaneously.
• Effective risk assessment, mitigation planning, and issue resolution skills. Strong communication and presentation skills with business and executive stakeholders. Experience working in global delivery and cross-functional environments. Strong decision-making, analytical, and problem-solving abilities. Ability to drive operational excellence, service improvement, and automation initiatives. Experience managing critical production incidents and ensuring SLA compliance.