SAP Basis Engineer

SAP Basis Engineer

We are hiring a Senior SAP Basis Engineer to take ownership of the non-functional health of a large-scale SAP S/4HANA landscape during a critical migration and go-live phase. This role is fundamental to delivering the migration safely and sustainably.

Your responsibilities:

• Deep, hands-on expertise across SAP Basis, SAP HANA, and SAP S/4HANA
• Proven ownership of non-functional requirements at enterprise scale, including:
• Resilience and high availability (clustering, active/passive designs, failover strategies)
• Performance and scalability (sizing, tuning, load characteristics under migration and BAU conditions)
• Disaster recovery, recovery time, and recovery point objectives
• Operational stability, run readiness, and production support models

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong experience designing and assuring large-scale SAP landscape architectures and complex integrations
• Ability to lead critical root-cause analysis during high-impact incidents and drive long-term corrective action
• Hands-on collaboration with testing teams to define and execute performance, resilience, and failover testing
• Solid infrastructure understanding across operating systems, networking, storage, virtualisation, and security
• Confidence to provide architectural direction, challenge, and assurance across delivery teams and vendor partners

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

• Very strong hands-on delivery credentials
• A track record of owning and resolving hard technical problems
• The confidence to operate at pace with senior visibility and scrutiny
• Experience working in complex or regulated environments
• Banking experience is beneficial but not mandatory. What matters most is depth, judgement, and the ability to deliver when it really counts.