SAP Basis Engineer (Lead)
Ref: BBBH66566_1776075318The Role
This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role with accountability for the non-functional integrity of an SAP S/4HANA landscape across migration and go-live phases. The position is critical to ensuring a stable, resilient, and high-performing platform, supporting a safe and sustainable transition into production.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide deep technical expertise across SAP Basis, SAP HANA, and SAP S/4HANA environments
- Own and govern non-functional requirements at enterprise scale, including resilience, performance, and operational stability
- Design and assure high availability architectures, including clustering, failover, and active/passive configurations
- Lead performance and scalability activities, including system sizing, tuning, and workload management across migration and BAU scenarios
- Define and validate disaster recovery strategies, including recovery time and recovery point objectives
- Ensure operational readiness, including support models, monitoring, and production stability
- Collaborate with testing teams to define and execute performance, resilience, and failover testing
- Lead root cause analysis for critical incidents and drive sustainable, long-term remediation
- Provide architectural guidance and assurance across technical teams and delivery stakeholders
- Support governance and quality assurance of the SAP landscape throughout the programme lifecycle
Essential Skills and Experience
- Strong experience designing and assuring large-scale SAP landscape architectures and complex integrations
- Proven ability to lead high-impact incident resolution and drive corrective actions
- Hands-on experience with performance testing, resilience validation, and failover scenarios
- Solid understanding of infrastructure layers, including operating systems, networking, storage, virtualisation, and security
- Ability to provide clear technical direction, challenge design decisions, and ensure delivery quality
- Demonstrated experience working in complex, large-scale SAP environments
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Strong hands-on delivery background with the ability to resolve complex technical challenges
- Experience operating in fast-paced, high-pressure environments with senior stakeholder visibility
- Background in regulated industries
- Experience within financial services environments is advantageous but not essential
Key Attributes
- Strong problem-solving capability with a proactive and detail-oriented approach
- Confident communicator with the ability to engage across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure and deliver high-quality outcomes within tight timelines
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