Senior Managing Consultant SAP Basis

SAP BusinessObjects; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Invenio is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant SAP Basis to lead enterprise SAP Basis strategy and transformation across large programs. The role centers on governance, high availability, performance, and security for complex landscapes.

You will guide installations, upgrades, migrations, and cloud initiatives while collaborating with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver value and risk-mitigated outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years of SAP Basis administration and leadership experience.
• Experience with large-scale SAP landscape management and transformations.
• Deep knowledge of SAP system architecture, HANA, and integrations.
• Experience in installations, upgrades, migrations, and cloud transformations.
• Expertise in performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of governance, security, and compliance.
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager and advanced monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and hybrid environments.
• Strong stakeholder management with exposure to senior leadership.
• Risk management, problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-wide SAP Basis strategy and roadmap.
• Lead multiple large-scale programs ensuring system stability, performance, and delivery excellence.
• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Oversee SAP landscape architecture, upgrades, migrations, and cloud initiatives.
• Ensure high availability, security, and compliance across systems.
• Monitor program performance, system metrics, and executive-level reporting.
• Manage risks, issues, and escalations with proactive mitigation.
• Drive innovation in Basis operations (automation, cloud, optimization).
• Lead, mentor, and develop leadership teams.

Skills

SAP Basis

Large-scale landscape

System architecture

Cloud transformations

Security & governance

Solution Manager

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Risk management

Job description

Role: Senior Managing Consultant SAP Basis

Years of Experience: 12-15 years

Location:

Shifts:

Job Summary: The Senior Managing Consultant SAP Basis is responsible for driving enterprise-level SAP Basis strategy, governance, and transformation across large and complex programs. The role involves leading multiple engagements, managing SAP landscapes at scale, and ensuring high availability, performance, and security.

Key Skills

• 12–15 years of experience in SAP Basis administration and leadership roles
• Proven expertise in large-scale SAP landscape management and transformations
• Deep knowledge of SAP system architecture, HANA, and integrations
• Strong experience in installations, upgrades, migrations, and cloud transformations
• Expertise in system performance tuning, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of SAP governance, security, and compliance
• Experience with SAP Solution Manager and advanced monitoring tools
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments
• Excellent stakeholder management with exposure to senior leadership
• Strong risk management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive enterprise-wide SAP Basis strategy and roadmap
• Lead multiple large-scale programs ensuring system stability, performance, and delivery excellence
• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and best practices
• Oversee SAP landscape architecture, upgrades, migrations, and cloud initiatives
• Ensure high availability, security, and compliance across systems
• Monitor program performance, system metrics, and executive-level reporting
• Manage risks, issues, and escalations with proactive mitigation
• Drive innovation in Basis operations (automation, cloud, optimization)
• Lead, mentor, and develop leadership teams

Business Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to communicate with others clearly and concisely.
• Understands business processes for focus areas or modules.
• Ability to do research and perform detailed tasks.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Understands business functionality related to SAP module/application as well as can identify and understand touch points between modules.
• Understands how to solve detailed SAP problems.
• Understands and can explain best business practices, especially those that SAP enables.

Consulting Skills

• Aptitude for working in a team environment; problem-solving skills, creative thinking, communicating clearly and empathetically, strong time management, and ability to collaborate with all levels of staff.
• Learn/understand consulting "soft" skills necessary on engagements, as well as with team collaborative initiatives.
• Ability to interpret requirements and apply SAP best practices.
• Strong presentation skills.

General Skills/Tasks

• Understands client’s business and technical environment.
• Assists the project team efforts in documenting the developing solutions for client situations.
• Assists team effort in preparing and developing solution documentation for projects.
• Learn to understand and adhere to project and organization guidelines with all administrative responsibilities in a timely and effective manner.
• Keeps manager apprised of workload direction and concerns.
• Learn to analyse and develop reliable solutions that produce efficient and effective outcomes.
• Develop a deeper understanding of SAP methodologies, tools, standards, and techniques.
• Assists with project documentation, and demonstrates effective organizational skills, with minimal supervision.
• Provides project team and leaders with updates on the progress and difficulties encountered, and provides value-added insight and understanding, for future program development.
• Demonstrate the ability to accomplish project assignments resulting in quality service.

Invenio is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate based on actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances. Invenio’s management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs and general treatment during employment.