SAP Basis Architect

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for an SAP Basis Consultant for a contract assignment with one of our premier Utility Services clients in Tampa, FL. Responsibilities: Serve as a senior technical resource for SAP Basis administration and architecture across a complex enterprise SAP landscape, including ECC, CRM/IS-U, BW, Solution Manager, Portal and related SAP technologies. Help define and drive the current and future-state SAP Basis architecture and technical roadmap, ensuring solutions align with business objectives, scalability, reliability and enterprise technology standards. Perform and provide technical leadership for SAP installations, upgrades, migrations, support packages, patching, performance tuning, system health checks and capacity planning. Design and support multi-system SAP landscapes across development, test, staging and production environments. Provide architecture recommendations for SAP infrastructure across on-premise and cloud-based environments. Support SAP HANA administration and Business Suite on HANA environments, including performance, sizing and infrastructure planning. Establish and maintain SAP technical standards, solution/design templates, governance processes and operating procedures. Partner with SAP functional teams, infrastructure teams, vendors and business stakeholders to coordinate enhancements and major technical initiatives. Translate business and application requirements into appropriate SAP infrastructure, platform and capacity requirements. Provide technical leadership on SAP landscape implementations, upgrades, database migrations and other strategic SAP initiatives. Evaluate emerging SAP and related technologies and recommend solutions that improve scalability, efficiency and agility. Required Skills: 12+ years of relevant SAP technical experience with significant hands-on SAP Basis administration and architecture experience. Demonstrated experience defining and driving SAP Basis architecture and technology roadmaps within a large enterprise environment. Strong hands-on experience supporting SAP ECC, CRM/IS-U, BW and Solution Manager environments. Strong experience with SAP HANA administration and Business Suite on HANA. Deep knowledge of SAP NetWeaver administration, including installations, upgrades, support packages, patches, fixes, performance analysis and troubleshooting. Strong understanding of complex, multi-system SAP landscape architecture and integration across heterogeneous technologies. Experience designing and supporting SAP environments across on-premise and/or cloud infrastructure. Experience with SAP system sizing, capacity planning and translating application/business demand into infrastructure requirements. Strong understanding of SAP connectivity and supporting technologies, including load balancers, Web Dispatcher, SAP Gateway and related infrastructure components. Proven experience serving in a technical leadership capacity on SAP implementations, major upgrades and/or database migrations. Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical teams, functional teams, vendors and business leadership. Preferred Skills: Experience integrating on-premise SAP ECC environments with SAP cloud solutions such as SuccessFactors, Ariba and Concur. Experience with SAP cloud integration technologies. Experience with SAP GRC and developing technical roadmaps for SAP platform products. SAP certifications in HANA, Solution Manager and/or SAP System Administration. Experience supporting SAP environments within the utility industry. Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, Mathematics or a related technical discipline required. Master's degree preferred. 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