IT Sr SAP Systems Administrator

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This position will be located in: Fargo , ND or Bismarck, ND or Charlotte, NC or Phoenix, AZ or Maple Grove, MN or Nashville, TN or Kansas City, MO or Remote work available 

 

Job Summary

Provides leadership for the day-to-day operations of the IT SAP System Administration Team responsible for systems level management of BSE’s SAP and Database Management Systems. Leads and supports company strategic projects and internal IT projects. Monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots the SAP technical environment and Database Management Systems. Develops and maintains technical documentation and disaster recovery procedures. Maintains SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to adhere to SAP Security best practices. Implements various SAP Products and Solutions which include installation, upgrades, migration, conversions/consolidation of systems to latest SAP technology and cloud-based platforms, requirement gathering, SAP & HANA sizing and maintenance of SAP landscape.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Provides daily technical leadership for the IT SAP System Administration Team with an emphasis on continued growth, maintenance, and operation of our SAP, database management, and middleware technologies
• Plans, analyzes, configures, monitors, tunes, and troubleshoots SAP systems, database management systems, SAP middleware systems
• Develops and maintains technical documentation, troubleshoots, resolves problems, monitors capacity and performance, and tests disaster recovery procedures
• Designs and converts SAP ECC systems by migrating to the latest SAP S/4 HANA products such as 1909 running on cloud platforms such as SAP HEC, AWS and Azure & deployment of SAP Fiori front-end server FES 6.0
• Integrates S/4 HANA with multiple legacy and SAP systems on-premise and cloud connectors-based APIs
• Responsible for successful delivery, ensuring quality and timely deliverables through the project cycle
• Designs complex SAP landscape, involving multiple New Dimension products. 
• Sets up HA and DR (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) solutions on-premise and cloud environments such as SAP HEC, AWS and AZURE
• Completes SAP upgrades using SUM and migration to HANA using DMO and implements SAP ACTIVATE for S/4HANA
• Completes daily SAP administration in a very complex landscape, activity planning, refresh, system maintenance, system decommission, storage space utilization and management, patching, notes application, incident management, problem management and resolution
• Implements specialized solution manager capabilities namely, technical monitoring, ChaRM for transport and change management, Business Process Repository, Business Process Monitoring
• Responsible for project documentation and vendor coordination for technical design, solution and delivery
• Manages the complex SAP HANA landscapes with SAP HANA BIGDATA components such as SDA, SDI, SLT for real-time replications and migration of HANA 1.0 to 2.0 with MDC (Multi Data Container)
• Provides expertise in Database management for HANA and a non-HANA DB
• Works across ITIL and Project Life Cycle delivery landscapes, which includes but is not limited to agile applications development, support and deployment
• Focuses on building solutions and maintaining, optimizing and improving applications and systems
• Contributes to a business and technical blueprint and customizes the respective Software Package Core Module
• Leads and supports IT projects 
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains SAP architectures.
• Manages and configures database management systems
• Manages technical changes that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance
• Supports complex environments consisting of Sandbox, Development, Test, QA, and Production systems
• Configures alerts; determines thresholds of alerts within monitoring systems as well as third party monitoring systems
• Resolves system problems and applies the appropriate course of action
• Manages incident tickets, including complex troubleshooting
• Helps to resolve complex issues, establish priorities, and makes decisions within guidelines, budgets and authority
• Assists with SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to best practices

Non-essential Functions

• Performs off-hours support as needed including month-end processes
• Provides 3rd level support for the IT Helpdesk
• Acts as a mentor t