SAP Basis Team Lead

Senior SAP S/4HANA Technical Architect (Non-Functional Focus)

Hybrid (2 days on-site) | UK

The Role

This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role with clear accountability for the non-functional health of a large-scale SAP S/4HANA landscape throughout migration and go-live.

You will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, resilience, and performance of a complex enterprise SAP environment during a major transformation programme. This is not a governance-only position you will be deeply involved in design, troubleshooting, and delivery at pace.

You’ll work within a high-performing team using modern SAP and infrastructure technologies, contributing to a programme with high visibility and real business impact in a complex, enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design and assurance of non-functional requirements across the SAP landscape
• Lead on high availability and resilience strategies, including clustering, failover, and system recovery
• Define and validate disaster recovery frameworks, including RTO and RPO objectives
• Drive performance and scalability, including system sizing, tuning, and optimisation
• Ensure operational readiness for go-live, including production stability and support models
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for critical incidents and implement long-term fixes
• Collaborate with testing teams to deliver performance, failover, and resilience testing
• Provide technical leadership across delivery teams, infrastructure, and vendor partners
• Contribute hands-on to SAP Basis, HANA, and S/4HANA environments

Your Profile

Essential Experience

• Deep, hands-on expertise in SAP Basis, SAP HANA, and SAP S/4HANA
• Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale SAP landscapes
• Strong background in non-functional architecture (HA, DR, resilience, performance)
• Experience delivering or supporting S/4HANA migrations or large transformations
• Ability to lead high-impact incident resolution and root cause analysis
• Strong infrastructure knowledge across OS, networking, storage, and virtualisation
• Experience working in complex, high-pressure environments with senior stakeholder visibility

Desirable

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services)
• Strong track record of hands-on technical delivery
• Ability to challenge and influence architectural decisions
• Experience working across multi-vendor environments

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to work on a high-profile S/4HANA transformation programme
• Hands-on architectural ownership with real influence on delivery outcomes
• Exposure to complex, enterprise-scale systems and cutting-edge SAP technologies
• Work in a collaborative, high-performing environment with strong technical peers
• Clear impact on business-critical systems and transformation success