Senior SAP Architect

Overview

USD 117,200.00 - 229,200.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Skype
SQL
Artificial Intelligence
Hosting
SaaS
PaaS
Communication
English
Management
Collaboration
Accountability
Customer Facing
IT Management
Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows
Linux
SLES
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Unix
Performance Analysis
Debugging
Database Administration
RDBMS
SAP HANA
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle
Sybase
IBM DB2
MaxDB
High Availability
Storage
Computer Networking
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services
Screening
PASS
Cloud Computing
Computer Science
SAP BASIS
Infrastructure Architecture
Testing
SAP
Scripting
Software Engineering
Integrated Circuit
IC
Internal Communications
Legal
Recruiting
Microsoft

Job Details

Azure Specialized is powering some of Azure's most profitable business segments and is growing incredibly fast! We are a globally available foundational service that hosts services and customer workloads with the scale of Bing/Skype/AzureStore/SQL,AI, hosts millions of multiplayer gaming sessions, allow solving large computational problems in seconds, and running SAP mission-critical customer workload and SAP SaaS and PaaS services.

SAP workload on the Azure platform is strategic for Microsoft's customers. Microsoft Azure is the platform of choice for many partners like SAP and customers to host SAP centric solutions in public cloud. SAP is hosting SaaS and PaaS offers for their customers on Azure.

The SAP Engineering team within Azure Specialized is focused on enabling, helping and supporting SAP to integrate SAP software, SaaS, and PaaS services into the Azure platform. Beyond that the team develops solutions and reference architectures for SAP workloads on the Azure platform.

Reliability is top of mind when running SAP on Azure. The SAP Engineering team is also engaged in designing automated tests, capable of detecting gating regressions in the platform, which can adversely impact SAP on Azure.

The team is spread globally with three main locations of the SAP headquarter in Walldorf in Germany, the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond, WA, and Hyderabad, India. The main communication language of the team is English. We are looking for a talented SAP Basis architect with background in deploying, managing, operating SAP landscapes, automating deployment tasks and testing Azure infrastructure configurations.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Develop, test and document well performing, scaling and resilient deployment scenarios
  • Work with Azure development on testing SAP workloads on Azure
  • Work with Azure development and test storage configurations for high performant DBs and SAP workloads
  • Investigate and troubleshoot complex customer scenarios.
  • Work with select customers and be the interface between SAP customers who deploy on Azure and the Azure core development.
  • Support the Microsoft customer facing personnel to successfully promote SAP workload scenarios on Azure infrastructure.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with SAP
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of of experience in SAP Basis Architect with a mix of architecture and technical lead roles with infrastructure design and tests for large, high performing SAP systems and HA/DR technologies.
  • 4+ years of experience Operating Systems (OS) Skills: technical knowledge on at least one of the following - Windows, Linux (SLES or RHEL), UNIX. Proficient with infrastructure design, implementation and tests for enterprise RDBMs and SAP workloads, performance analysis and debugging
  • 4+ years experience Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills: with SAP HANA and at least 1-2 of the following: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MaxDB . Proficient with performance query analysis, sizing, HA/DR and storage/disk design
  • 4+ years experience with Hyper-Visor/Cloud/Networking technologies. Proficient with designing, deploying and troubleshooting solutions based on Azure (or AWS)
Other Requirements:
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
    • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with SAP
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with SAP
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 6+ years of experience, as SAP Basis Architect with a mix of architecture and technical roles, with emphasis on infrastructure design and testing for large, high performant SAP systems.
  • Reliable record of delivering and deploying reliable, highly available and scalable SAP architectures to customers.
  • 2+ years of experience with scripting maintenance tasks and automating tests.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 23, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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