SAP Basis Lead

Role Summary

The SAP Basis Lead is responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing the SAP technical landscape across ECC, S/4HANA, BW, CPI, BTP, Solution Manager, and related SAP systems. This role oversees Basis administration activities, ensures system availability and performance, manages upgrades and migrations, and leads a team of Basis administrators to deliver stable and secure SAP environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Landscape Management

• Design, implement, and maintain SAP system landscapes (ECC, BW, Enterprise Portal, Solution Manager, GRC, SLT, BTP, S/4HANA, SAP CAR, SuccessFactors, Cloud ALM).
• Plan and execute system copies, refreshes, upgrades, and patching.
• Ensure integration with external systems and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, BTP).

System Performance & Monitoring

• Monitor and tune system performance, including database, memory, and job performance.
• Implement proactive health checks and automation to reduce downtime.

Security & Compliance

• Oversee user administration, roles, and authorizations.
• Ensure compliance with IT security and audit standards (e.g., SOX).

Disaster Recovery & Backup

• Develop and manage disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and system restores.
• Validate DR readiness through regular testing.

Project Leadership

• Lead Basis activities for SAP projects (migrations, upgrades, new implementations).
• Partner with functional, development, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless project delivery.

Team & Vendor Management

• Lead and mentor Basis administrators (onsite/offshore).
• Coordinate with SAP, hardware, and cloud vendors for issue resolution.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field
• 10+ years hands-on SAP Basis Administration experience
• Experience in SAP installations, system copies, kernel upgrades, and performance tuning
• Expertise in database administration primarily HANA and Oracle.
• Experience with SAP Enterprise Cloud Services and SAP RISE methodology
• Deep understanding of SAP HANA architecture, backup/recovery, and performance optimization.
• Experience managing SAP cloud solutions (Certificates, outages, SLAs, etc.)
• Familiarity with Operating systems Linux, Windows
• Familiarity with high-availability and failover setups using clustering and load balancing.
• Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong Leadership and Project Management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP HANA, SAP OS/DB Migration SAP Certification is a plus
• SAP S/4HANA on Cloud deployments or migrations is a plus
• Experience with automation and monitoring tools (e.g., Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM).
• Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Datasphere ( Nice to have)
• Exposure to SAP security and GRC integration.