SAP Basis Consultant

Falcon Smart IT (FalconSmartIT); Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Falcon Smart IT (FalconSmartIT) is seeking an experienced SAP BODS administrator to lead end-to-end upgrade and migration projects. You will install, configure, and maintain SAP BODS environments, perform version upgrades, and design resilient landscape architectures with high availability and disaster recovery.

You will monitor performance, optimize systems, and provide production support for large enterprise SAP landscapes across Linux, Windows, and UNIX platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–5 years hands-on SAP BODS administration.
• Proven experience leading SAP BODS upgrade and migration projects.
• Experience performing repository migrations, version upgrades, and post‑upgrade validation.
• Experience supporting production environments with incident resolution and performance optimization.
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, system optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in production support for large enterprise SAP landscapes.
• Experience managing transport landscapes and release cycles.
• Knowledge of SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Db2 on Linux/Windows/UNIX environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SAP BODS upgrade and migration projects, including planning, execution, validation, and post-upgrade support.
• Install, configure, administer, and maintain SAP BODS environments.
• Perform SAP version upgrades with minimal business disruption.
• Design and implement SAP landscape architecture with HA, DR, and BC.
• Coordinate system refreshes, client copies, transport management, and release activities.
• Monitor SAP systems for performance, capacity, and availability; implement optimizations.
• Administer SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Db2 databases across Linux, Windows, UNIX.
• Manage SAP Solution Manager integration and technical monitoring.
• Troubleshoot complex BASIS, OS, DB, and infrastructure issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, DB, network, security, and app teams.
• Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and vendors.
• Ensure IT governance, security standards, audits, and change management.
• Prepare technical docs and SOPs for knowledge transfer.

Skills

SAP BODS

Upgrade & migration

Production support

Performance tuning

Troubleshooting

System optimization

Transport management

Cross‑team coordination

Tools

SAP BODS

SAP HANA

Oracle

SQL Server

IBM Db2

Linux (RHEL/SUSE)

Windows Server

UNIX

SAP Solution Manager

Job description

• Lead end-to-end SAP BODS upgrade and migration projects, including planning, execution, validation, and post-upgrade support.
• Install, configure, administer, and maintain SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS) environments.
• Perform SAP version upgrades with minimal business disruption.
• Design and implement SAP landscape architecture, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Execute system refreshes, client copies, transport management, and release management activities.
• Monitor SAP systems for performance, capacity, and availability, implementing proactive optimization measures.
• Perform SAP kernel upgrades, database maintenance, patching, and security updates.
• Administer SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Db2 databases, across Linux (RHEL/SUSE), Windows Server, and UNIX environments including backup, recovery, replication, and performance optimization.
• Manage SAP Solution Manager integration and technical monitoring.
• Troubleshoot complex SAP BASIS, operating system, database, and infrastructure issues.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, database, network, security, and application teams during implementation and support activities.
• Lead technical discussions with business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, and external vendors.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, security standards, audit requirements, and change management processes.
• Prepare technical documentation, standard operating procedures, architecture documents, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on experience administering SAP BODS.
• Proven experience leading SAP BODS upgrade and migration projects in enterprise environments.
• Experience performing repository migrations, version upgrades, and post-upgrade validation.
• Experience supporting production environments with incident resolution and performance optimization.
• Experience in end-to-end SAP implementation, upgrade, or migration projects.
• Strong expertise in performance tuning, system optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in production support for large enterprise SAP landscapes.
• Experience managing transport landscapes and release cycles.
• Database & Operating Systems: Strong knowledge of SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, IBM Db2, Linux (RHEL/SUSE), Windows Server, and UNIX environments.