Staff Engineer, SAP Basis

Job Description:

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers, and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video, and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role:

The Staff Engineer, Finance Systems, requires an experienced SAP Basis Engineer to design, build, and optimize our enterprise SAP platforms. This role goes beyond administration, SAP basis engineer acts as a 'go-to' person with a strong focus on engineering scalable, secure, and automated solutions that support SAP S/4HANA application and other core applications. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in SAP technical architecture, performance engineering, and cloud infrastructure, and thrives in solving complex engineering challenges ensuring SAP SOX Financials application stability, performance, and alignment with Business and Enterprise objectives.

Key Responsibilities include the following:

• Engineer and optimize SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, BW, etc.) for scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Architect and implement SAP migrations, upgrades, and patching strategies across on-prem and cloud environments, with focus on high-performance platforms, reusable components, and scalable infrastructure.
• Automate SAP system provisioning, monitoring, and recovery using modern tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
• Design high-availability large-scale solutions, ensuring compliance with business continuity requirements.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to ensure end-to-end system resilience and compliance. Also set technical direction and influence architectural decisions.
• Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems, troubleshooting complex system issues across SAP Basis, Application and SAP landscape.
• Provide engineering oversight on performance tuning, transport management, and security hardening.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, best practices, and standards for enterprise SAP operations.
• Researches and proposes technology solutions applicable to Dow Jones requirements and roadmap
• Balances significant hands-on development with strong strategic technical vision
• Ensures successful business events like Financial period close timely completion with pro-active monitoring, issue resolution and after hour coverage
• Solves complex ambiguous challenges with structured methodologies

You Will:

• Champion SAP applications with - install, configure, and maintain SAP on-premise and Cloud applications across development, QA, and production landscapes. You will monitor performance, apply patches and upgrades, manage transports, and resolve technical issues to ensure system stability and availability
• Ensure SAP System Excellence – Provide technical leadership to maintain system availability, performance, and resilience by establishing proactive monitoring frameworks, guiding teams in disaster recovery, and ensuring timely issue resolution.
• Safeguard Business Continuity During Critical Cycles – Oversee execution during financial closings, peak periods, and maintenance windows, ensuring stability through well-coordinated cutover strategies and risk mitigation.
• Strengthen Collaboration and Governance – Mentor, Guide and Champion Technical alignment between teams, business stakeholders, and technology partners by driving structured communication, technical know-how sharing and Standardized Basis practices.
• Drive Successful Upgrades, Basis Initiatives; Work with the Infrastructure teams – Provide technology direction for SAP upgrades, application enhancements, and infrastruc