Specialist: SAP Basis

Transnet Company; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics firm is seeking a Specialist: SAP Basis in Pretoria to provide technical support and leadership in SAP environments. This role requires at least 5 years experience in an ICT environment focusing on SAP BASIS, including a supervisory role. The successful candidate will be responsible for system performance, compliance, and mentoring junior staff. Competitive benefits offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 Years National Diploma in ICT related qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in ICT environment in SAP BASIS of which at least 1 year in a Supervisory or Specialist role.
• OR Minimum of 6 years experience in ICT environment in SAP BASIS of which at least 2 years in a Supervisory or Specialist role.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, support and guidance to junior personnel.
• Ensure skills growth and knowledge sharing.
• Provide expert troubleshooting and fault finding.
• Assist in identifying and implementing methods to increase efficiency.
• Maintain system availability, compliance and security.

Skills

Customer Oriented

Relationship Management

Business Performance and Delivery

Personal Mastery

Education

National Diploma in ICT related qualification

Job description

Specialist: SAP Basis

Operating Division: Transnet Engineering

Employee Group: Permanent

Department: Facilities and Infrastructure

Location: Kilner Park

Reporting To: Manager: ICT Infrastructure-KNP

Grade: F

Reference: req3632

Application deadline: 11/11/2025

Position Purpose

Provide technical SAP basis system support and/or advise as well as effecting the continuous improvement development and upgrading of SAP systems and delivery channels, including SAP FI/ CO, SAP Logistic, Sap Portal, SRM, BW, SOLMAN, MIL, CRM, PI, PPM and PI.

Provide technical leadership, support and guidance to junior personnel by ensuring skills and knowledge.

Position Outputs

• To provide technical leadership, support and guidance to junior personnel.
• To ensure skills growth and knowledge sharing, to meet the organizational objectives.
• To provide expert troubleshooting and fault finding as part of escalation process on problems that cannot be resolved by the junior teams.
• Assist and support the team in identifying and implementing methods which increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provides support to the team in areas such as project execution, design and job estimation.
• Promotes effective communications and working relations within the team, with our customers and with other support services.
• Ensures the development of the team members to improve customer service and reduce the risk exposure of the organization to unforeseen departures.
• To perform system performance monitoring and tuning, capacity management, upgrades, patching, and technology level updates.
• To maintain system availability, compliance and security according to the relevant best practices and SLAs.
• Ensures effective security, operation and peak performance of SAP environments.
• Maintaining the SAP infrastructure, including installations of SAP and database upgrades.
• Administering the SAP landscape, maintaining an error free operating environment.
• Assisting SAP developers with development activities, problems and questions.
• Design and Modify the SAP architecture to accommodate changing hardware, software and workload.
• Manage the Basis team in areas such as, development of customer support processes, technical planning and work coordination.
• Manage Basis support projects including scheduling the work, ensuring availability of resources and ensures the quality of the deliverables.
• Provides input and assistance to other IT projects.
• To provide technical leadership, planning, design, 2nd, and 3rd line support in the applicable technology.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 3 Years National Diploma in ICT related qualification.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in ICT environment in SAP BASIS of which at least 1 year in a Supervisory or Specialist role.
• OR Minimum of 6 years experience in ICT environment in SAP BASIS of which at least 2 years in a Supervisory or Specialist role.

Competencies

• Customer Oriented
• Relationship Management
• Business Performance and Delivery
• Personal Mastery

Equity Statement

Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Organisation/Operating Division.