SAP Basis Lead

PANASONIC ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. seeks a senior SAP Basis professional to lead administration, performance tuning, and security for SAP ECC, S/4HANA, BW, Fiori, and BTP platforms.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and governance within the COE to upgrade, migrate, and optimize SAP environments. You will oversee multiple SAP instances, including HANA and Oracle databases, ensure system stability, and mentor junior Basis staff while coordinating with MM, SD, FI teams.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years in SAP Basis/Authorizations in a multinational/global services setting.
• Experience leading teams of 5+ people on projects and operations.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Basis, including S/4HANA, ECC, BW, and Fiori.
• Familiarity with SAP Solution Manager, Job monitoring, and Run SAP Focussed Run.

Responsibilities

• Perform SAP Basis administration: install, configure, patch, and upgrade SAP systems.
• Design and implement optimal SAP configurations for performance and availability.
• Manage SAP users, authorizations, and profiles.
• Monitor SAP systems, DBs (HANA/Oracle), and background jobs.

Skills

SAP Basis

Authorizations

Solution Manager

S/4HANA

SAP HANA

DevOps

AIOps

Cloud connectors

Tools

Solution Manager

SAP HANA

Oracle

Job description

The SAP Basis COE is mainly responsible for providing expert-level support, governance, and optimization of SAP systems within the organization's Center of Excellence (COE). Required to collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement upgrades, migrations, and new SAP solutions. Maintain multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (SAP ECC, SAP BW, Solution Manager, S4 Hana, SAC, DRC & BTP Platforms). This role involves ensuring system stability, performance, security, and compliance while driving best practices in SAP Basis administration.

Job Responsibilities:

• SAP Basis administration tasks including installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades of SAP systems (ECC, S/4HANA, BW, CRM, Fiori, BTP, etc.).
• Design and implement an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
• Manage and oversee SAP users, authorizations, and profiles.
• Oversee, manage and distribute the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workloads.
• Oversee and manage OS Scripts and other interfaces and interface data transfers.
• Oversee and manage the SAP printing subsystem for all SAP instances.
• Maintain SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
• Monitor all SAP systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space, etc.
• Administer the SAP database with Database Administrator (Hana and Oracle), perform DB reorg system copies.
• Perform SAP HANA administration and planning as required like patching, HANA side CAR etc.
• Perform SAP client administration as required.
• Define and enforce SAP Basis standards, policies, and procedures within the COE.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior Basis team members.
• Collaborate with functional teams (MM, SD, FI, etc.) to align Basis strategies with business needs.
• Explore AIOps and DevOps integration for SAP environments.
• Should able to work on SAP BTP Platform for services to enable including SAC and cloud connectors
• Stay updated with SAP roadmap, new technologies, and trends.
• Ability to work in a global, cross-functional team.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades.
• Apply and migrate SAP maintenance through all systems using a structured methodology.
• Develop and maintain system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
• Provide status reports for Basis project and Ops activity to management.
• Report delivery status to customer management and develop required delivery documentations, e.g., preventive and detective processes.
• Technical activity and troubleshooting issue serve as primary contact for client management
• Serve as a L3 support for critical issues/tickets and handling RCA
• Develop and manage Basis infra forecast and costing.
• Acting as the SAP solution consultant to propose and design new solutions within SAP landscape.

Job Requirements:

• 7-10 year working in a Multi-National Company or Global Services environment or a SAP Consultancy Company as Basis & Authorizations Consultant
• Experience in leading a team of 5 or more supporting project and operation activity.
• Strong experience in Domain of SAP Basis (SAP BC) & SAP Management of Authorizations
• Strong experience in Basis roll outs including S4HANA and ECC from Basis perceptive (User, Roles, Printer, Jobs and scripts management)
• Excellent in computer skills (Microsoft Office) are required
• Knowledge in using Solution Manager with functionality like Job monitoring, EWA, Technical Monitoring including SAP Focussed Run
• Willing to work in 24/7 support model based on as and when required to support cross domain operations.
• Excellent communication skills in both verbally and written form.
• Can work in an independent manner, as well as integrate well into a team, ability to take initiative and change for improvements.