Senior Analyst (Sap Basis)

PENTLAND; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sportswear company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Analyst to provide technical mentoring, manage enterprise applications, and support team activities. The role requires expertise in systems design and project management, with a focus on ensuring compliance with change processes. Candidates should have experience with SAP applications and a proven track record in technical project oversight.

Qualifications

• Experience in design, implementation & support of enterprise applications.
• Proven project management experience for small/medium projects.
• Ability to monitor and maintain virtualized landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical mentoring and coaching to junior team members.
• Ensure adherence to change control processes.
• Support team members with ad-hoc activities.

Skills

Technical mentoring

Risk management

Server optimization

Database administration

Application performance management

Tools

SAP ECC

VMWare

Oracle DB

Job description

Senior Analyst - The role you'd play:

• Provide technical mentoring and coaching to junior team members
• Support team members with regards to ad-hoc department activities.
• Identify, highlight, and plan mitigation for risks in own area.
• Be the point of contact and represent teams' interest in a project, focusing on reporting, and delivering the projects to realise the business benefits.
• Ensuring procedures related to identification, changes, testing, documentation, approval, and communication of any modification to the system are followed.
• Supervising the implementation of changes to the system, including those which have a multi-brand and global impact. Ensuring active and positive adherence to Pentland change control processes.
• Contribute to the Release & Change management forums where is needed (CRB, TAB & CAB)
• Maintain system patches across the landscape
• Ensure all backups of production servers are performed and verified daily
• Monitor and maintain Pentland's VMWare hosts and VCenter
• Provide server specifications required to host new applications or services
• Document all new applications and services deployed within the datacenters
• Provide an escalation point for technical Analysts.

Senior Analyst - What you'd bring:

• Design, implementation & support of enterprise applications like SAP ECC, BI, BO, PO, Solution Manager, GRC, WMS, WFM, DMS, ADP Hr.Net, Gateway, Fiori, etc.
• Basic knowledge of Enterprise Application Landscape design
• SAP & non-SAP Technical design, Server Sizing
• System Installation & fine tuning (for SAP & non-SAP applications - ABAP, Java & dual stack systems)
• Experience in handling multiple track landscape
• Installation & optimization of OS & DB (preferably Linux OS and Oracle DB)
• Monitoring & configuration of a virtualised landscape (preferably VMWare)
• Designing, testing, and implementing backup / recovery, disaster recovery and fail-over of enterprise systems as well as designing application Security, including Single Sign On.
• Application Performance Management and Troubleshooting
• SAP Transport Management using CTS+ & Change Management (ChaRM) and change deployment procedures for non-SAP applications
• System Copies/refreshes for enterprise applications
• Application Upgrades & Software Maintenance (Inc. underlying infrastructure)
• Perform high availability system configuration on various OS platforms & technologies.
• Configuring and supporting job scheduling tools like Redwood
• Client and release strategy
• Database Administration & Support
• OS Administration & Support
• Experience in successfully meeting Audit requirements including general computing controls, and access controls
• Proven & demonstrable experience in managing small/medium sized technical projects