SAP Basis Expert

Opella; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Opella is seeking a Senior SAP Basis Expert to manage the SAP platform, ensuring performance and security while coordinating maintenance with stakeholders. You will drive initiatives across upgrades, system refreshes, and architecture improvements.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of SAP Basis experience, strong knowledge of SAP HANA, BTP, and integration tools, plus ITIL-driven service management experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience on SAP Basis.
• Deep knowledge of SAP platforms, HANA, and optimization.
• Experience with SAP upgrades, migrations, and BASIS maintenance.
• Familiarity with ITIL and SAP security notes.

Responsibilities

• Own Basis BAU activities for SAP platform and tools.
• Build a technology roadmap for basis initiatives.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure teams on upgrades and migrations.
• Review system performance and apply fixes.
• Ensure SAP security and archiving configurations.
• Document processes and coordinate EWA/notes implementations.

Skills

SAP BASIS

HANA

SQL

Cloud

ITIL

Project Management

Tools

SAP BTP

Cloud Connector

Job description

Opella is a global consumer healthcare company, formerly known as Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, focused on over-the-counter (OTC) medicines and self-care products. It became an independent company in April 2025, backed by Sanofi and private equity firm CD&R. Opella is currently the third-largest player globally in the OTC and vitamins & supplements market and operates in over 100 countries. The company has a workforce of around 11,000 employees and a strong portfolio of more than 100 well-known brands, including Allegra, Dulcolax, and Doliprane.

About the Role

The SAP Basis Expert will be responsible for managing the SAP platform and integrated tools, ensuring optimal performance and security while coordinating with various stakeholders on maintenance tasks and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own Basis Business as Usual Activities for SAP platform and integrated tools.
• Build technology roadmap for basis initiatives and improvement action plans to provide sustainable SAP platform.
• Coordination and interactions with Infrastructure team (T-Systems) and any stakeholders of projects related with SAP Basis Maintenance tasks, like SAP upgrades, System Refreshes, and any other activities related with implementations which requires SAP Basis expertise.
• Develop expertise on SAP technologies and procedure, review system performance statistics, perform configuration modifications and fixes.
• Review complex problem situations and identify preventive measures / improvements to processes, procedures or tools, and implement these as required. Follow-up RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of all operational security and emergency procedures.
• Ensure a way to solve security issues in SAP Landscape.
• Creation, planning and modification of cutover activities for Upgrades, Refreshes, and basis platform tasks.
• Configure and define archiving objects in SAP system.
• Maintenance of Central SAP Logon entries, certificates, SSO and Webdispatcher to be sure the users can connect to the environments securely.
• Ensure documentation of the whole team is available and updated, updating every time is needed.
• Coordinate Tasks to manage EWA or SAP recommendations to have the system updated and secure.
• Analyse SAP Security Notes monthly and coordinate with development and Integration Team the implementations.
• Develop expertise on administration for SAP HANA, S/4, BW4HANA 2.0, BO, BTP, PI/PO, BO Data Services, SAP Solution Manager, Cloud ALM.
• SAP BTP Management, Cloud integration with ERP landscape, Security management, artifacts management, updates and deployments of SAP BTP Services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years work experience on SAP Basis, including similar technical platform management activities.

Required Skills

• Knowledgeable in SAP BASIS and platform management.
• Knowledgeable in SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Cloud Connector.
• General expertise in IT infrastructure technologies (SQL, Hana, Oracle DB, Servers, OS…) and Cloud services (AWS, Azure).
• Deep Knowledge in SAP performance optimization and parametrization (Basis, Hana, SQL statements, etc.).
• Significant experience with integration technologies (ALE/RFC/Idocs, PI/PO, WebServices, OData, Tibco, Informatica, …).
• Significant experience in IT service management and tools (ITIL, ServiceNow, Solution Manager).
• Experience in Project Management, involving Agile and Digital methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple and parallel SAP platform lifecycles.
• At ease with Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IS tools.
• Can communicate solutions, ideas, suggestions to a variety of stakeholders effectively and comprehensibly.
• Deep understanding of Application and technology Architecture.
• Knowledge of technological trends.
• Solid technology expertise in SAP technology and integrated tools.
• Proven successful experience in SAP ERP production (S4/Hana), related landscape and lifecycle (migration, new module implementation…).
• Conceptual and analytical thinking – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements or strategies.

Preferred Skills

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated conflict resolution & problem-solving skills in a global environment.
• Strong appetite to learn and discover, entrepreneur mindset.
• Adaptable and open to change.
• Team player, service-oriented.
• Analytical and synthetic, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with leadership attitude, autonomy and results driven.