SAP basis Lead/Architect

Exp. Required: 15+ Year’s

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

§            SAP S/4HANA Landscape Architecture: Expertise in designing, implementing, and governing SAP S/4HANA landscapes, including development, quality, production, and coexistence environments, while ensuring scalability, performance, and operational stability.

§            RISE with SAP Architecture & Cloud Operations: Strong experience with RISE with SAP deployments, SAP-managed cloud services, hyperscaler environments (Azure/AWS), cloud operating models, and SAP''s shared responsibility framework.

§            SAP HANA Administration & Performance Tuning: Deep knowledge of SAP HANA database administration, monitoring, backup and recovery, system replication, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.

§            SAP Upgrades, Migrations & S/4HANA Conversions: Proven experience leading SAP technical upgrades, enhancement pack implementations, system refreshes, cloud migrations, and ECC-to-S/4HANA conversion programs using SAP best practices and tools.

§            High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR) & Business Continuity: Expertise in designing resilient SAP architectures, including HA/DR strategies, disaster recovery planning, business continuity processes, and infrastructure failover mechanisms.

§            SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP): Hands-on experience with SAP BTP services, Integration Suite, Cloud Connector, Identity Authentication Services (IAS), Identity Provisioning Services (IPS), and hybrid integrations between SAP and non-SAP platforms.

§            SAP Basis Leadership, Governance & Stakeholder Management: Ability to lead global Basis teams, establish technical governance standards, manage vendors and managed service providers, and collaborate effectively with infrastructure, security, application, and business stakeholders.

Roles & Responsibilities

§            Lead end-to-end SAP Basis operations and ensure system availability, stability, performance, and security across enterprise SAP landscapes.

§            Own technical architecture, migration planning, system conversions, cloud adoption, and operational governance for SAP transformation programs.

§            Plan and execute ECC-to-S/4HANA conversions, OS/DB migrations, readiness checks, simplification analysis, remediation, and downtime optimization.

§            Coordinate mock conversions, dry runs, cutover activities, production migration, hypercare, system refreshes, upgrades, and support pack implementations.

§            Lead migration to and operation of RISE with SAP Private Cloud; coordinate with SAP ECS/RISE and hyperscaler teams for environment and service management.

§            Configure and administer SAP BTP accounts, entitlements, transport management, identity services, connectivity, destinations, and integrations with SAP and non-SAP applications.

§            Design cloud, HA/DR, and business continuity architectures; support infrastructure sizing, provisioning, cloud optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

§            Manage transport landscapes, client administration, monitoring , technical dependencies, RAID items, escalations, and technical governance.

§            Act as the primary technical liaison among customer teams, SAP, hyperscalers, and implementation partners; lead workshops and migration planning sessions.

§            Provide clear project status reporting, executive updates, technical documentation, and leadership to global delivery teams.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

§            Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, vendor coordination, and executive communication skills.

§            Ability to lead global delivery teams and cross-functional technical workshops in fast-paced transformation environments.

§            Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, risk management, escalation management, and decision-making capabilities.

§            Experience with SAP Activate and SAFe Agile delivery methodologies