SAP Basis Architect

SRM Digital; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SRM Digital seeks an experienced SAP Basis Architect to lead SAP technical architecture, Basis operations, cloud transformation, and S/4HANA migration initiatives across enterprise SAP landscapes. The ideal candidate will drive governance, performance, and security while coordinating global technical teams.

You will own end-to-end SAP Basis architecture, collaborate with infrastructure, security, and SAP partners, and guide transformations from ECC to S/4HANA, including readiness assessments,

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SAP S/4HANA landscape architecture across development, quality, production, and coexistence environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SAP Basis architecture across enterprise landscapes, ensuring availability, stability, security, and performance.
• Oversee BASIS operations, cloud transformation, and S/4HANA migrations with global teams.

Skills

S/4HANA architecture

HANA administration

RISE with SAP

Azure & AWS

SAP BTP

HA/DR & BC

Basis governance

Technical leadership

Global teams management

SAFe Agile

Tools

SAP ECS

Cloud Connector

Integration Suite

Job description

We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis Architect to lead SAP technical architecture, Basis operations, cloud transformation, and S/4HANA migration initiatives across enterprise SAP landscapes. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, RISE with SAP, SAP BTP, cloud infrastructure, HA/DR, and SAP Basis governance, along with proven experience leading complex transformation programs and global technical teams.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA landscape architecture, including development, quality, production, and coexistence environments.
• Hands-on experience with RISE with SAP Private Cloud, SAP ECS, SAP-managed cloud services, and hyperscaler environments such as Azure and AWS.
• Deep expertise in SAP HANA administration, monitoring, performance tuning, backup/recovery, system replication, and capacity planning.
• Proven experience with ECC-to-S/4HANA conversions, OS/DB migrations, SAP upgrades, system refreshes, and cloud migrations.
• Strong knowledge of High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), business continuity, and infrastructure failover architectures.
• Hands-on experience with SAP BTP, Integration Suite, Cloud Connector, IAS, IPS, transport management, and hybrid SAP/non-SAP integrations.
• Strong understanding of SAP Basis operations including transport management, client administration, monitoring, technical dependencies, security, and performance management.
• Experience with SAP technical governance, cloud operating models, capacity planning, infrastructure sizing, and optimization.
• Strong technical leadership experience managing global Basis teams, vendors, SAP, hyperscaler, and implementation partners.
• Experience with SAP Activate and SAFe Agile methodologies is preferred.
• Lead the end-to-end SAP Basis architecture and operations across enterprise SAP landscapes, ensuring availability, stability, security, and performance.
• Own technical architecture and governance for SAP transformation, cloud adoption, migration, and S/4HANA programs.
• Lead ECC-to-S/4HANA conversions, OS/DB migrations, readiness assessments, simplification analysis, remediation, and downtime optimization.
• Plan and coordinate mock conversions, dry runs, cutover, production migration, hypercare, upgrades, system refreshes, and support pack implementations.Lead migration and operations within RISE with SAP Private Cloud, coordinating with SAP ECS/RISE and hyperscaler teams.
• Design and implement HA/DR and business continuity architectures for mission-critical SAP environments.
• Configure and administer SAP BTP accounts, entitlements, connectivity, destinations, identity services, transport management, and integrations.
• Design and oversee integrations between SAP and non-SAP platforms using BTP Integration Suite and Cloud Connector.
• Lead SAP technical governance covering transport landscapes, monitoring, capacity, performance, technical dependencies, RAID items, risks, and escalations.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, application, business, SAP, hyperscaler, and SI teams to drive technical decisions and transformation outcomes.
• Lead technical workshops, migration planning sessions, architecture reviews, and solution discussions with stakeholders.
• Provide executive-level status reporting, technical documentation, risk assessments, and transformation updates.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to global SAP Basis and infrastructure teams.
• Ensure SAP environments comply with enterprise security, availability, performance, and operational standards.