Principal SAP Basis Engineer
Dallas, TX (Hybrid)

Client is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Principal SAP Basis Engineer to join our enterprise technology team. This role is critical to the performance, stability, and evolution of our SAP landscape, which includes ECC 6.0, S/4HANA, PI/PO, BW/4HANA , SAP BTP (i.e. SAC, Datasphere, CPI) and more. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in SAP Basis administration, with a focus on hybrid environments, cloud migrations, and database performance optimization.

As the Principal SAP Basis Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, managing, and supporting a mission-critical SAP landscape that spans various systems and technologies. You ll lead technical strategies, perform lifecycle administration, and ensure system availability,

performance, and scalability. This position demands proactive leadership in managing change, incident response, and continuous improvement, with an emphasis on system security, audit readiness, and global collaboration.

Primary Responsibilities

• Administer and support SAP systems across S/4HANA, BTP, PI/PO, Datasphere, SAC, and other SaaS platforms.
• Perform and manage installations, configurations, upgrades, system refreshes, and performance tuning for SAP applications and the SAP HANA database.
• Monitor and optimize system performance; configure SSL, SSO, and Cloud ALM
• Provide SAP BTP administration and support for CPI and API
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout development, QA, UAT, cutovers, and go-live hypercare.
• Utilize archiving tools such as SAP OpenText Suite (i.e. xECM, VIM, and OCR).
• Administer NetWeaver (ABAP & Java), SOA Manager, Solution Manager (ChaRM)/Cloud ALM Change Management, and Redwood RunMyJobs.
• Configure SAP Web Dispatcher, load balancers, and support SAP Cloud

• Follow change management best practices using ServiceNow, Solution Manager Quality Gateway Management (QGM), and Cloud Transport Management (CTMS).
• Contribute to change and alert management processes using SAP CALM and
• Contribute to sizing, documentation, and readiness for SAP migration and cloud transition projects.
• Support continuous improvement, audit assessments, capacity planning, and KPI
• Participate in 24x7 support rotations and maintain global collaboration with distributed

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of hands-on SAP Basis administration
• Deep knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, NetWeaver, and BTP platform
• Proficiency with HANA databases; strong performance tuning and monitoring
• Experience with SAP OS/DB migrations (certification preferred).
• Knowledge of managing Service Request (SR) for hybrid SAP environments (cloud/on- premise).
• Strong scripting skills (Shell, Python) and familiarity with Agile delivery
• Experience with SAP SaaS solutions: SuccessFactors, Ariba,
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, IP management, firewalls, and SSL
• Comfortable working in both Linux, AIX, and Windows
• Excellent communication, troubleshooting, and customer service
• Previous experience in supporting multiple greenfield/brownfield
• Ability to work across time zones with globally distributed