Sr. SAP Basis Administrator

Job Description

O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work. Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces.

Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies. Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work. Here is where we need you most:

Senior SAP Basis Administrator

We need a self-directed and motivated team member with solid SAP administration, technical architecture, and leadership experience. This role will design, develop, establish standards, evaluate, and direct enhanced solutions for performance monitoring and system configuration, aligning with the company strategy map. The Senior SAP Basis Administrator will also coordinate across multiple teams within the business to design and implement SAP architecture requirements and specifications and to ensure that corporate needs are being met.

Responsibilities

1. Drive and influence technical infrastructure design decisions for various SAP solutions across various functional areas
2. Ability to research and find solutions
3. Architect, design and orchestrate the delivery of cutting-edge business-enabling technologies
4. Partner with External Service Providers to deliver future SAP solutions strategies
5. Orchestrate key proof of concept pilots/programs to assess the potential business value of upcoming business SAP functionality/technologies
6. Lead the design and implementation of solutions across business units with primary responsibility for various SAP modules
7. Drive and articulate the SAP infrastructure roadmap, driving business value by influencing customers to leverage existing investments whenever possible
8. Engage in project/release scoping discussions with business units to understand business requirements and complexity to ensure the appropriate SAP infrastructure services and capabilities are available
9. Lead and conduct design reviews, technology reviews, direct vendors (if any) and interface with SAP OSS for problem management
10. Release (cutover) planning, articulate and determine timelines for various cutover activities, serve as a technical escalation point and SME for various SAP infrastructure technologies
11. Partner closely with infrastructure teams and suppliers on architectural design, application upgrades, release and project implementations, capacity management and system performance
12. Collaborate with other technical resources (Hardware, OS, development, functional, etc.) for support, production issues, and problem resolution
13. Provide expertise in the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of multiple SAP environments.
14. Resolve business-critical production support issues
15. Define and develop SAP administration standards, system installation and upgrade procedures, and checklist
16. Trouble shoot and resolve critical SAP issues in a timely manner
17. Design, develop and maintain multiple SAP clients and associated build processes
18. Refresh SAP systems
19. Technical troubleshoot, analyze, research software patches, provide impact analysis and checklist
20. Manage multiple SAP releases, performance management and tuning of applications, and database management
21. Understand the dependencies in an enterprise environment
22. Manage the workload between multiple SAP projects
23. Put automation and DevOps knowledge into practice.

Job Requirements

Education and qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field. Or equivalent work experience with 8 years of SAP Basis expertise in various SAP systems.
2. Experience administering systems like ECC- S/4 Hana, Hybris/C4, Hybris Datahub, Fiori, SAP PO, Bods, Apache Web Servers, Solr Servers, Bamboo, Solution Manager, Analytical Cloud, and SAP Cloud IDP.
3. Experience in configuring and maintaining Charms/CTS+, SAP Commerce Rolling deployments
4. Experience in Solution Manager 7.1 and 7.2: installation and execution of setup, managing system configuration, technical monitoring
5. Ability to learn cutting-edge technologies e.g., SAP Solution Manager, SAP SSO, Cloud, etc.
6. Experience of SAP administration in HANA and Oracle environments
7. Experience in SAP BTP, SAC and SAP Cloud IDM
8. Experience with SSL SAML, Active Directory, Windows and Unix/Linux based OS
9. Disaster Recovery, Point-in-time expertise, and High Availability experience
10. Prior experience includes software installations, upgrades, support activities, applying support/enhancement packages, defining system installation and sizing plans.
11. Well versed in SAP technologies and the technology roadmap
12. Multiple full life cycle implementations Excellent communication, interpersonal and documentation skills
13. Solid understanding of SAP implementations, Agile and Activate methodology
14. Experience of Security, compliance, GDPR, Data sovereignty guidelines
15. Experience working on Standardization and Automation
16. Experience in Shell script

• Work location: Salt Lake City, Utah.