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Your role and responsibilities Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the SAP HANA infrastructure and SAP BASIS components, ensuring a high‑performance, scalable, secure, and resilient SAP landscape. The role works closely with cross‑functional teams to deliver enterprise‑grade SAP solutions aligned with business requirements and architectural standards. Key Responsibilities1. SAP HANA & BASIS Architecture- Design and govern the end‑to‑end SAP HANA and SAP BASIS architecture across landscapes.
- Ensure optimal configuration of SAP HANA, S/4HANA, ECC, BW, SCM, CRM, SRM, and HCM systems.
- Own SAP technical architecture decisions across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Ensure adherence to SAP best practices and enterprise architecture standards.
- Design and oversee SAP deployments on AWS, Azure, or other hyperscalers.
- Lead cloud migration strategies (ECC → S/4HANA, on‑prem → cloud, RISE‑aligned models).
- Ensure cloud architectures meet performance, availability, scalability, and security requirements.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and security teams for end‑to‑end cloud readiness.
- Design SAP applications that may:
- Run on multiple platforms
- Be composed of multiple integrated SAP and non‑SAP components
- Maintain the functional interface between SAP applications and underlying infrastructure.
- Ensure seamless integration with surrounding systems and platforms.
- Accountable for system performance, uptime, and scalability across all SAP environments.
- Proactively monitor, tune, and optimize:
- SAP HANA databases
- Application workloads
- Interfaces and data replication
- Ensure systems meet SLAs and business continuity expectations.
- Provide technical leadership across advanced SAP technologies, including:
- SAP BTP
- SAP SLT
- SAP ASE
- SAP LeanIX
- HANA‑based integration and extension scenarios
- Support real‑time replication, analytics, and extension use cases.
- Ensure SAP platforms are designed and operated with security‑by‑design principles.
- Work with InfoSec teams to implement:
- Access controls
- Secure connectivity
- Compliance and audit requirements
- Deliver high‑quality, reliable SAP solutions that exceed customer expectations.
- Deep expertise in SAP HANA, SAP BASIS, and S/4HANA
- Strong experience with ECC, BW, SCM, CRM, SRM, HCM
- Hands‑on knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or hyperscalers)
- Experience with SAP BTP, SLT, SAP ASE, LeanIX
- Strong understanding of system architecture, performance tuning, and scalability
- Working knowledge of SQL and database concepts
- Proven ability to work across cross‑functional technical and business teams
- Multi‑Platform Architecture Expertise: Proven ability to design and govern solutions across multiple platforms, seamlessly integrating and operating diverse software packages within complex enterprise landscapes.
- Advanced Scalability and Performance Engineering: Strong experience applying advanced scalability, performance optimization, and high‑availability techniques to deliver resilient, high‑performing enterprise applications.
- Enterprise Architecture Innovation: Deep expertise in driving innovation across enterprise architectures, staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends to shape comprehensive, future‑ready solutions.
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IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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