SAP Basis Lead / Technical Lead

Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About the Job

• Directly manage, mentor, and task-assign the SAP Basis technical team.
• Lead the administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, ALM, Cloud Connector, etc.).
• Technical Leadership for SAP Basis operations, establishing best practices, standards, and operational guidelines.
• Design, plan, and execute SAP system upgrades, system refreshes, kernel updates, database migrations, and patch implementations (Support Packages/Stack).
• Manage backup/recovery strategies, high availability (HA) setups, and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.
• Oversee SAP system security, user authorization concepts, transport management, and audit compliance protocols.
• Manage day-to-day work for internal Basis engineers to ensure strict adherence to SLAs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 10+ years of SAP Basis experience with proven experience as SAP Basis Lead / Technical Lead.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, SAP HANA).
• Expertise in SAP Basis administration, upgrades, migrations, system refreshes, kernel updates, and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Security, user authorization, roles, and audit compliance.
• Experience managing SAP Basis teams and ensuring SLA compliance.
• Experience with HA/DR, backup & recovery strategies.
• Good knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.