Sap Basis Lead

Ball Corporation; Italia; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Ball Corporation is seeking a SAP Basis Lead to drive hosting services and SAP Basis operations across global environments, including SAP on Azure. You will manage vendor relationships, coordinate with ITS and business partners, and lead projects within the SAP Technical Ecosystem.

A strong ITIL background and a Bachelor’s degree are required. The role focuses on delivering architecture, design, and operations excellence, ensuring global platform guidelines are followed and knowledge is

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of SAP technical operations, including BASIS, lifecycle management.
• Global experience with multi-region operations and distributed teams.
• Experience in SAP hosting environments (Azure) and IT service delivery.
• Strong vendor management and ITIL-based governance.

Mansioni

• Lead SAP hosting services and SAP Basis operations at Ball.
• Oversee Azure-based SAP environments, HA, scalability, and DR concepts.
• Coordinate with ITS and business partners for technical deliverables.
• Deliver projects in SAP technical ecosystem including upgrades and security ops.
• Provide planning, estimates, documentation, and knowledge transfer to ITS.

Conoscenze

SAP Basis

Vendor management

Stakeholder management

ITIL knowledge

SDLC understanding

Azure hosting

English proficiency

Communication skills

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Strumenti

Azure Cloud

Descrizione del lavoro

SAP Basis Lead

Azienda : Ball Corporation Tipo Lavoro : Full Time Italy

Descrizione Lavoro - SAP Basis Lead

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Position overview: This role resides in the SAP Center of Excellence organization, which is responsible for Ball SAP applications globally. This role has responsibility leading projects, business as usual and operational support involving the SAP technical area, such as hosting services for SAP in Azure, SAP Basis, Services Management having the ability to translate business requirements into ITS specifications, technical design and configuration.

Key responsibilities include:

• The Technical Enablement Lead role is responsible for the SAP Hosting services, SAP Basis Services and Vendor management at Ball.
• This role is focused on operations including SAP on the Azure Cloud, as well as SAP Basis and SAP SecOps.
• It is part of this role the delivery of projects related to the SAP Technical Ecosystem, such as: Software Lifecycle Management (Upgrades), SAP SecOps(Remediation).
• Position requires a strong internal stakeholder relationship dealing with multiple ITS areas as well as project SteerCo and business partners.
• Ability to translate Business requirements into ITS SAP Technical deliverables, solution design, technical coordination throughout end-to-end.
• The Technical Enablement Lead role is responsible for adherence to global strategic platform guidelines.
• Responsible for impact analysis of process improvement efforts; provides leadership in the implementation and execution of technology solutions to complex business problems.
• Defines cross-system solutions which map to re-engineered business processes.
• Provide planning, estimates, application development, documentation, and support leadership using technology best practices.
• Works closely with other ITS resources, business stakeholders, and third-parties ensure solutions support business requirements and capabilities.
• This role has an obligation to fully understand the Demand and Change Management Processes, associated SLA’s and ITS Standard operating procedures.
• To produce complete and meaningful High Level Estimates (HLE’s) based on demand requests .
• Participates as a key contributor in the design and development of complex applications and projects and is the expert in the technology selected.
• Accountable to drive and ensure SAP Technical deliverables are complete based on defined timelines .
• Responsible for detailed specifications, derives estimates, and assigns component development tasks to the onshore/offshore development teams.
• Responsible for knowledge transfer to ITS operations.
• Responsible for participating on operational readiness review , Disaster Recovery & Business continuity
• To ensure ongoing support of deployed solutions is handled in the correct manner from both a Business and Ball ITS perspective, therefore minimizing Business impact

What are we looking for:

• Completed Bachelor's Degree
• 10+ years of experience in SAP technical operations (SAP BASIS), including system administration, performance tuning, and lifecycle management (upgrades, patches, system refreshes)
• Proven experience leading SAP environments in global organizations, with exposure to multi-region operations (EMEA and Americas) and distributed teams
• Hands‑on experience with SAP hosting environments (preferably SAP on Azure or similar cloud platforms), including high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery concepts
• Strong understanding of IT service management and delivery frameworks, including SLA/OLA governance and incident/problem/change management (ITIL knowledge desirable)
• Experience managing vendors and external partners, ensuring service quality, accountability, and alignment with business objectives
• Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including requirements analysis, testing strategies, release management, and quality assurance practices
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and coordinate across technical and business teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field, with fluent English (written and spoken) required for global collaboration
• Fluent in English

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups to aerosol bottles solutions that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.

Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.