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Storm Duty Requirements
Tampa Electric and its sister companies play a role in providing critical services to our community during emergencies. Team members are required to participate in the response and recovery activities related to emergencies and disasters to maintain service for our customers. Team members must perform their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company’s rules and procedures. Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment.
Job Information
- Title: SAP Basis Architect, Progression
- Company: Tampa Electric Company
- Location: Midtown East Tower, Tampa, Florida
- Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days
- Hiring Manager: Gary Clanton
Position Concept
The SAP Basis resource will be the focal point for systems administration functions across all SAP landscapes, including SAP ECC, Portal, CRM, BW, BOBJ/BODS, BPC, and Solution Manager applications on ABAP, Java, and .NET platforms. Responsibilities include planning, coordination, and implementation of changes related to SAP, performance and tuning analysis, capacity planning, systems support, application support, and software/patching upgrades.
This position can be hired at any level within the multi‑level job family progression, based on education and experience.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- SAP Basis administration tasks: installations and upgrades, problem determination and resolution, software patching, support package application, performance tuning, and project sizing.
- Use analytical skills to evaluate system performance, perform system health checks, and implement tuning improvements.
- Participate in multi‑landscape design solutions, architecture recommendations, and client strategies for continuous improvement.
- Design and implement Portal landscape upgrades and patches.
- Collaborate with SAP Functional Team Leads to coordinate and ensure complete enhancements to company’s enterprise‑wide SAP ECC and CRM/B (ISU) implementations.
- Provide technical leadership and participate in technical projects across multiple teams.
Qualifications
Education
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent IT discipline (MIS).
- Preferred: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent IT discipline (MIS).
Licenses / Certifications
Required: N/A
Experience
Related Experience
- Minimum of twelve years of work experience related to the responsibilities of this position.
- Experience in defining and driving a current and future state architectural BASIS roadmap that ensures initiatives are aligned with business goals.
- HANA Administration and Business Suite on HANA administration experience.
- Proven track record of creating, delivering, and managing the logical and physical design and implementation of a fully integrated enterprise environment.
- Experience in leading focus groups, aligning Business and IT organizations.
- Technical leadership on one or more SAP landscape implementations, upgrade initiatives, or database migrations.
Preferred
- Integration experience from an on‑premise ECC solution with SAP HANA Cloud solutions (e.g., SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur) and HANA Cloud Integration as middleware.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA)
- Strong hands‑on implementation and support experience with the latest releases of SAP ECC, CRM, ISU, BW, and Solution Manager in a SQL Server or SAP HANA Database environment across multiple clustered on‑premise and/or cloud‑based solutions.
- Extensive knowledge of multi‑system landscape architecture and integration aspects between heterogeneous system technologies.
- Experience with SAP NetWeaver administration and core technical tasks in Windows environments, including installation, upgrades, applying support packages, patches, and fixes.
- Ability to support technical implementations across the SAP system landscape as it evolves (development, test, staging, production).
- Capable of establishing design, implementation, monitoring, and optimization processes and procedures across SAP landscapes and dependent technologies.
- Skill in cross‑organization, cross‑vendor, and cross‑business collaboration and vendor/technology agnostic evaluations.
- Develop application roadmaps for SAP products including Solution Manager and GRC to support business requirements.
- Deep knowledge of SAP sizing technologies and quick sizer; ability to work with business to ensure supporting data is valid and correct.
- Translate business data into infrastructure requirements on multiple platforms and OS technologies, including cloud.
- Understand SAP and non‑SAP front‑end, mobile, access (including external), security requirements and tools (load balancers, web dispatcher, SAP GW).
Lead / Consultant Responsibilities
Responsible for team, project leadership, consulting, and cross‑training including:
- Managing the SAP support team and developing support processes.
- Planning technical directions and ensuring availability of resources for SAP support projects.
- Developing maintenance and contingency plans for SAP assets.
- Implementing and assuring compliance with policies and procedures.
- Managing project execution, design, and job estimation.
- Providing coaching and support to SAP staff.
Supervision
- Direct Supervision: manages and supervises full‑time and contract SAP resources.
- Indirect Supervision: provides technical direction to project teams, works in a matrixed reporting environment, and interacts with offshore consulting resources.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 401k Savings plan with company matching
- Pension plan
- Paid time off
- Paid holiday time
- Medical, Prescription Drug, and Dental Coverage
- Tuition Assistance Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellness Programs
- On‑site Fitness Centers
- Bonus Plan
- More
Tampa Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer.