IS SAP & Infrastructure Engineer

ABB Schweiz AG; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB is seeking an IS SAP & Infrastructure Engineer responsible for managing both technical infrastructure and SAP systems. This role involves overseeing data source integrations, optimizing infrastructure, and collaborating with stakeholders to improve data quality. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with SAP technologies and effective communication skills, contributing to ABB's data-driven initiatives in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of experience working with SAP technologies and infrastructure support.
• Proficiency in integrating ERP and non-ERP source systems.
• Fluent spoken and written English is essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical infrastructure and the SAP system landscape.
• Oversee new data source integrations and ensure adherence to procedures.
• Run weekly & monthly governance meetings with Source teams.

Skills

SAP system proficiency

infrastructure knowledge

integration skills

communication skills

collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Certifications in SAP (ECC, HANA) and cloud infrastructure (Azure)

Tools

SAP ECC

S4HANA

Oracle

Microsoft SQL Server

Linux

Windows Server

Job description

IS SAP & Infrastructure Engineer

At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.Write the next chapter of your ABB story.

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This position reports to

IS Source Systems Manager

Your role and responsibilities

IS SAP & Infrastructure Engineer plays a critical role in managing both the technical infrastructure and the SAP system landscape. This role requires a blend of SAP system proficiency, infrastructure knowledge, and management skills. Your role involves working with the Source Systems team to leverage your skills in integrating and overseeing global source systems, such as ERP (SAP ECC, S4HANA) and various non-ERP data sources, ensuring the robustness and reliability of ABB’s data ecosystem. Your primary responsibility will be overseeing new data source integrations, ensuring seamless onboarding, thorough testing, and adherence to defined data integration procedures and standards. You will be responsible for optimizing infrastructure to maintain high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations, directly contributing to ABB’s data-driven initiatives.The SAP & Infra Support Manager requires effective collaboration and communication skills, as you will provide regular updates to technical stakeholders on integration performance, infrastructure improvements, and data quality. Familiarity with SAP ECC, S4HANA, and infrastructure optimization for global data systems is essential.The work model for the role is: Hybrid #LI-HybridThis role is contributing to the Core IS Services.You will be mainly accountable for:• Maintaining close relationships with source system technical teams, ensuring the data extraction from all sources to A3 data platform is going smooth.• Identifying if there are any maintenance or actions taken or going to take at the sources (ERP or Non-ERP) that are going to impact the data extraction process and take necessary actions by reaching out to source teams, understanding the impact, involve in testing and perform the impact analysis.• Running the weekly & monthly governance meetings with Source teams.• Providing cost estimates and implementation for setting up the necessary Cloud or On-premises infrastructure and identifying the root cause for long pending or repetitive issues in the data extraction pipelines in co-ordination with technical teams responsible.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Engineering, or a related field, Certifications in SAP (ECC, HANA) and cloud infrastructure (Azure) are required.
• Minimum 8+ years of experience working with SAP technologies and infrastructure support, with at least 2-3 years of experience working with technical stakeholders, previous experience with SAP systems is a requisite.
• Proficiency in integrating both ERP and non-ERP source systems (such as SAP ECC, HANA, Workday, Salesforce, and others) and functional understanding of SAP Basis and SOLMAN
• Knowledge of server architectures (physical and virtual), storage management, network configurations, and load balancing and understanding of operating systems (Linux, Windows Server) and database management systems (e.g., Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server).
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., SAP functional consultants, developers, network administrators, etc.) to ensure the completion of SAP projects.
• Management: Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with source system owners, manage expectations, and ensure KPI alignment and technical requirements are met.
• Highly motivated and resourceful, adept at managing global integrations while promoting a culture focused on continuous development in data processes. Fluent spoken and written English is essential.

More about us

Our mission in ABB IS (Information Systems) is to harness the power of information technology to deliver valuable, reliable, and competitive IS services for ABB. If you have a strong technical skills, analytical mind, and the drive to help us stay ahead of the competition, you are the one we are looking for.We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStoryIt has come to our attention that the name of ABB is being used for asking candidates to make payments for job opportunities (interviews, offers). Please be advised that ABB makes no such requests. All our open positions are made available on our career portal for all fitting the criteria to apply. ABB does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection to recruitment with ABB, even if is claimed that the money is refundable. ABB is not liable for such transactions. For current open positions you can visit our career website https://global.abb/group/en/careers and apply. Please refer to detailed recruitment fraud caution notice using the link https://global.abb/group/en/careers/how-to-apply/fraud-warning