Solution Architect

**A Career at HARMAN**:
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**Position Summary**:
This role will deliver best-in-class services for a complex SAP system landscapes. He/she should provide expert level SAP Basis and security support and will be responsible for Implementing,troubleshooting and maintenance of existing and new SAP products. He/she will implement and coordinate new SAP installations and upgrades. He/she will assure a stable system performance and a continuous improvement of our customer satisfaction.

**Supervisory Responsibilities**: None.

**Responsibilities**:

- Works as a member of SAP Foundation team to help on SAP implementations, upgrades, and rollouts - ECC, BW,BOBJ Data services,BW 4/HANA, HANA DB, Cloud solutions like SAP IBP & Ariba, SRM,GRC,BPC, PI, Solution Manager,MES/MII,Enterprise portals and Single Sign On.
- Designs, configures, monitors, maintains and supports SAP environments - ECC, BW,BOBJ Data services, BW 4/HANA, Cloud solutions like SAP IBP & Ariba, SRM,GRC,BPC, PI, Solution Manager,MES and Single Sign On.
- Maintaining and troubleshooting SAP Authorizations for our current SAP system landscape (GRC, ERP, IBP, ARIBA, SCM, XI/PI/PO, Solution Manager, SAP Portal, MII, ME, BI, MDM, Business Objects, EP).
- Analysis, design and transfer of business requirements into a SAP Security landscape.
- Build Roles/ Authorizations/ User Creations for existing operations and New Implementations/ Rollouts.
- Complete periodic audit activities on time and SOX controls.
- Coordinate with Internal and External Audits.
- Experineced on both On-premise and Cloud environments ( Preferably AWS & SAP Cloud solutions)
- Experinceed in SAP High availability environments
- Experience in HANA DB administration
- Nice to have experience with Archiving ( SAP Data and Content Archiving tools - both standard SAP and tools like PBS)
- Proactively monitors supported systems to predict, prevent, and respond to systems issues to improve availability and resilience of supported critical systems.
- Provides root cause analysis of issues encountered on supported systems, working with other teams as necessary to make holistic recommendations to avoid recurrent outages.
- Performs systems monitoring, systems configuration and performance tuning for all SAP components.
- Analyzes complex issues and provide root cause analysis on all SAP component failures and outages.
- Participates as a team member and provides input and expertise to discussions about system and solution design.
- Participate in projects to determine project scope and limitations, architect solution landscapes, estimate time and cost requirements, and create/configure/maintain systems according to the project plans.
- Analysis, design and transfer of business requirements into functional and technical requirements and specifications suitable for an SAP landscape.
- Develops, maintains, and presents systems documentation, training materials, configuration and process documentations and training courses
- Performs peer review of changes for team members to identify potential issues before they become problems within the production environment.
- Collaborates with Global Centers of Excellence within the IT organization.
- Work with vendor project teams on implementation projects.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- 6+ years of prior SAP Basis and security experience with large organizations and having advanced level of skill set on ECC, BW,BOBJ Data services. BW 4/HANA, HANA DB, SAP Cloud solutions like IBP/Ariba,SRM,GRC,BPC, PI, Solution Manager and MES. Should be strong in both ABAP and Java SAP stacks. Experienced with onpremise and cloud based solutions.
- Strong experience on SAP Basis implementations and upgrades
- SAP Security knowledge and experience in GRC, ECC, Solution Manager, EP, IBP, ARIBA, Fiori, MDM, BI, BPC and Audit & Compliance.
- Working Knowledge of:

- SAP GRC 10/10.1/12 (ARA, EAM, UAM, ARM, BRM)
- Identity / Security management in an SAP environment
- SAP Security Concepts
- Demonstrated experience in the areas of SAP performance tuning for both the ABAP and Java stacks.
- Experience supporting SAP systems running on Unix, Linux, and Windows using Oracle DB.
- Experience with and knowledge of Enterprise Portals within a federated landscape
- SAP NetWeaver infrastructure and landscape optimization.
- SAP Web Application Server architecture
- Portal System performance improvements
- Peer review of changes going into production.
- Bachelor’s/Masters Degree in Engineering (preferred) or equivalent in Computers, Information Technology, or related field
- Demonstrated 5+ years of relevant experience with increasing respon