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The Role
The Cloud Delivery Specialist - SAP Basis Expert acts as a trusted technical advisor in the safeguarding and optimization of customer investments into SAP ECS (Enterprise Cloud Services). You will work as a team with Technical Service Managers (TSMs), Customer Delivery Managers (CDMs), and ECS internal service delivery to provide quality services to customers throughout the entire lifecycle. This is a customer-facing role focused on Large and Strategic Customers.
What you'll do
- Ownership and detailed understanding of the customer landscape managed within ECS and understand interdependencies between systems (both within ECS and beyond).
- Support the CDM and the TechOps teams for execution of the service delivery plan and calendar.
- Analyze customer technical requirements and organize / co-ordinate experts from ECS Delivery team and drive those topics to resolution to the satisfaction of the customer.
- Present the intricacies of the private cloud offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the customer or SAP services teams to build customer-specific cloud roadmaps that cover topics around Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Managed services, security, and integration.
- Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security and Compliance, Networks, etc.
- Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements
- Conduct Technical and operational reviews (monthly) to measure the progress against defined Cloud architecture and roadmap; establish and drive resolution plans to resolve issues and problems to completion.
- Support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
- Comprehensive knowledge on S/4HANA architecture, conversion, migration path, methodology and tools.
- Understanding of various SAP cloud solutions and integration scenarios of SAP systems with SCP, Ariba, SuccessFactors etc.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management
- High proficiency in customer communications and presentations is required
- High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions
- Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)
- Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment
- Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP)
- Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice
- Strong experience with running the SAP NetWeaver Platform on Linux/SLES
- Expertise in SSL/TLS and certificate management for HTTPS
- Expertise in SAP Solution Manager setup, monitoring and alerting
- Expertise in implementation, performance tuning and capacity management for SAP on HANA and S/4HANA platform
Work Experience
- 12+ years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience
- 12+ years of solution design, enterprise architecture, and or SAP implementation
- 12+ years of SAP BASIS administration experience
Nice to have
- SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are plus
- SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory
- Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred
- Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are a big advantage
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SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.
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Requisition ID: 379280 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.