Contract

SAP Basis Engineer (Lead)

Ref: BBBH66566_1776075318
Swindon, Wiltshire

The 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

Kind regards,

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

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