Executive SAP Platform Lead for RISE & Basis, Hybrid

Ask Athena; Mansfield (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ask Athena seeks an experienced SAP Platform Manager to own the technical operations, governance, and evolution of our SAP landscape, focusing on SAP Basis and the RISE with SAP engagement. You will partner with IT, business, hyperscalers, and implementation partners to ensure a secure, stable, and scalable platform.

The role requires 15+ years of SAP experience, hands-on SAP Basis expertise, and proven exposure to RISE with SAP. This hybrid role is on-site 4 days and remote 1 day per week.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of SAP experience with emphasis on Basis and platform operations.
• Experience with RISE with SAP and S/4HANA Cloud/Private Edition.
• Strong collaboration across IT, business, and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage SAP platform strategy, roadmap, and operations across ECC, S4, BI, SAP HANA, and integration components.
• Own day-to-day platform operations including availability, performance, capacity, monitoring, backup/recovery, HA, and DR.
• Govern and coordinate with SAP RISE, hyperscalers, and providers, including SLAs and change windows.
• Oversee installations, upgrades, migrations, ensuring alignment with clean-core and RISE guidelines.
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and audit readiness.
• Partner with functional, development, and architecture teams to design scalable solutions.
• Coordinate with offshore delivery teams and drive cost efficiency.
• Establish and maintain standards, runbooks, SOPs, inventories.
• Drive incident, problem, change management and root-cause analysis.
• Escalation point for critical SAP issues with stakeholders.
• Support planning and execution of SAP transformation programs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support integrated processes.

Skills

SAP Basis Administration

Platform Operations

RISE with SAP

S/4HANA Cloud

Leadership/Stakeholder Management

Security/Compliance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Ask Athena seeks an experienced SAP Platform Manager to own the technical operations, governance, and evolution of our SAP landscape, focusing on SAP Basis and the RISE with SAP engagement. You will partner with IT, business, hyperscalers, and implementation partners to ensure a secure, stable, and scalable platform.

The role requires 15+ years of SAP experience, hands-on SAP Basis expertise, and proven exposure to RISE with SAP. This hybrid role is on-site 4 days and remote 1 day per week.