Sr. Systems Engineer, SAP Basis

Initial Therapeutics, Inc.; Norwood (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Moderna is seeking a highly skilled SAP Basis Administrator with 10–12 years of experience managing enterprise SAP landscapes, including SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP environments. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership for SAP Basis administration, cloud operations, lifecycle management, system architecture, performance optimization, and security.

This role will drive successful implementation, support, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP platforms while partnering with

Qualifications

• 10–12 years of enterprise SAP Basis experience.
• Proven leadership in SAP Basis administration and global projects.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, ECC, HANA, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP Basis administration, lifecycle management, and optimization of SAP environments.
• Plan and execute migrations, upgrades, and landscape transformations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security, performance, and reliability.

Skills

SAP Basis

S/4HANA

ECC

HANA

RISE with SAP

BTP

Fiori

Solution Manager

Cloud ALM

Cloud Connector

Tools

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

The Role:
Moderna is seeking a highly skilled SAP Basis Administrator with 10–12 years of experience managing enterprise SAP landscapes, including SAP S/4HANA and RISE with SAP environments. The ideal candidate will provide technical leadership for SAP Basis administration, cloud operations, lifecycle management, system architecture, performance optimization, and security. This role will drive successful implementation, support, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP platforms while partnering with business stakeholders, SAP, infrastructure, security, and application teams to deliver scalable, compliant, and high-performing solutions.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

SAP Basis Administration & Lifecycle Management

• Lead the administration, maintenance, and optimization of SAP environments including SAP S/4HANA, ECC, SAP HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Fiori, SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM, and SAP Cloud Connector.

• Manage the complete SAP S/4HANA RISE lifecycle, including implementation, migration, upgrades, release planning, patch management, system maintenance, and operational governance.

• Monitor and review SAP system builds, installations, support package stacks, enhancement packs, kernel upgrades, system refreshes, client copies, and performance tuning activities.

• Plan and execute SAP system copies, refreshes, Unicode conversions, OS/DB migrations, and landscape transformation projects.

• Recommend system enhancements, architecture improvements, and upgrade strategies to improve system efficiency, scalability, reliability, and performance.

• Manage SAP transport management, client administration, change control, and release management processes.

• Ensure SAP environments meet high availability, disaster recovery, backup, recovery, and business continuity requirements.

• Administer SAP HANA databases including backup/recovery, system replication, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

SAP Technical Leadership

• Configure and support complex, multi-platform SAP application environments and provide technical leadership across SAP technologies.

• Define technical architecture and infrastructure requirements for SAP projects and ensure technical deliverables are appropriately scoped and executed.

• Develop, review, and oversee execution of technical implementation plans, validation activities, and deployment strategies.

• Develop and execute technical test plans supporting SAP infrastructure changes, upgrades, migrations, and integrations.

• Ensure solutions are properly built, tested, validated, and successfully cut over into production environments.

• Provide production readiness reviews and post-implementation support for new SAP capabilities.

• Partner with SAP and cloud providers to evaluate emerging technologies and deploy fit-for-purpose, scalable solutions that meet business and performance requirements.

• Stay current with SAP product roadmaps, cloud technologies, automation capabilities, and industry best practices to recommend innovative solutions.

Cloud, Infrastructure & Security

• Support SAP workloads across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or RISE-managed cloud environments.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and cybersecurity teams to maintain secure, resilient, and highly available SAP platforms.

• Implement and maintain SAP security best practices including SSL certificates, Secure Network Communications (SNC), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and vulnerability remediation.

• Support cloud infrastructure optimization, automation, monitoring, and performance management.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, audit requirements, and regulatory controls.

Operations & Production Support

• Provide technical leadership for SAP production support and serve as an escalation point for complex SAP Basis issues.

• Provide first-level technical support for SAP Basis infrastructure issues and work directly with SAP Support and technical vendors to resolve critical production incidents.

• Perform root cause analysis for production issues and implement preventive and corrective actions.

• Monitor system availability, capacity, performance, and operational health using SAP monitoring tools.

• Develop automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies to improve operational efficiency.

• Provide ongoing IT operational support for delivered SAP solutions throughout their lifecycle.

Governance & Project Delivery

• Establish and maintain governance processes that preserve solution integrity while minimizing unnecessary customizations.

• Define technical standards, operational procedures, documentation, and SAP Basis best practices.

• Participate in architecture reviews, project planning, change advisory boards, and technical design discussions.

• Collaborate with functional teams, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders throughout project lifecycles.

• Mentor junior SAP Basis administrators and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams.

• Ensure project deliverables meet quality, security, compliance, and operational support requirements.

Compliance & Quality

• Follow all applicable GxP regulations, industry standards, corporate policies, and quality requirements to ensure regulatory compliance.

• Execute responsibilities in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and established operational processes.

• Adhere to Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and Data Integrity principles to ensure documentation, records, and system evidence are accurate, complete, and audit ready.

• Support internal audits, regulatory inspections, computer system validation (CSV), and compliance assessments as required.