The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP systems. Additional areas include the evaluation and design of interfaces between SAP and external systems, maintenance of the SAP Data Dictionary and database objects, and manage the migration of SAP database and application configuration into production as well as analyze, develop, and maintain data architectures and process models within SAP.
Primary Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain the multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training and production).
- Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
- Administer the SAP database with Database Administrator
- Develop and maintain system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
- Provide status reports for projects to management.
Qualification and Training
- Desirable -Bachelor Degree in engineering or computer science
Experience
- General BASIS operations experience;
- Analysis of Database performance including SAP DB02;
- Integration of Content Management Systems (eg: Opentext, AP CMS, Documentum)
Qualities and Attitudes
- Flexible
- Tolerance
- Self-management qualities
- Proactivity
- Organisational and Leadership skills
- Problem-solving aptitude
Product Knowledge
- Proficient in SAP system refresh and related troubleshooting
- SAP Archiving essential