HANA Expert

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We are looking for a HANA database expert with strong focus & experience in SAP deployments on HANA leveraging best practices, data management topics, cloud service engineering processes, transformation, and innovation services, with a strong background in technical/functional end-to-end data environment management. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability, performance, and security of the SAP HANA landscapes within RISE.

Key activities will include engineering solutions, supporting POCs, architectures, migrations/upgrades/patching, automation, performance & tuning, and on-demand expertise and optimizing existing processes by leveraging automation and/or AI and ML.

Experience and Role Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree / master's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or similar with 15+ years of related experience
• Strong experience with SAP HANA internals and SAP HANA Database management/administration, monitoring and maintenance (including patching and upgrades)
• Strong experience in HANA performance and tuning, Root cause analysis, HANA system replication, HANA scale-out systems, and various extension options like Native Storage Extension, Extension Nodes, dynamic tiering etc.
• Strong experience in SAP Business continuity / resiliency topics including HADR etc.
• Strong experience in SAP HANA SQL Script and one or more of Python/Shell/Perl
• Strong Experience in designing, implementing, and onboarding Cloud Services and solutions to the solutions Portfolio.
• Strong SAP architecture knowledge desirable to comprehend customer needs & solution appropriately.
• Experience in enterprise applications preferably SAP S/4HANA or SAP BW/4HANA and/or SAP Basis and NetWeaver
• Experienced in driving critical projects and bring them to conclusion successfully.
• Experience in triaging, troubleshooting, and resolving technical and functional incidents and problems, pertaining to SAP applications.
• Hands-on experience in hyperscalers, preferably in Azure and/or AWS and/or GCP.
• Integration experience in one or more areas: SAP Datasphere, SAP Cloud Platform Integration, Enterprise Information Management (SDI, SDA, SDS, BODS, Information Steward, SRS)
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and stay current with product and multiple industry advancements.
• Support with customer escalations to help troubleshoot and resolve incidents and problems on time.
• Excellent analytical skills, face-to-face and remote communication skills with proven ability to bridge Technology and Business goals to provide productive solutions.
• Able to continuously learn and upskill to maximize contributions to a fast-evolving organization.
• Support defining, implementing, and documenting processes for new solutions and services.
• Management of multiple activities requiring cross team coordination

Required Skills:

SAP solution knowledge including:

• S/4HANA or SAP B/4HANA.
• SAP HANA Scale-up & Scale-out solutions
• SAP HANA NSE, Extension nodes
• SAP HANA XS, SAP HANA XSA, SAP HANA Cloud
• SAP HANA Security experience
• Strong technical / solution architecting skills
• Strong scripting / programming skills will be preferred
• 7+ years of broad experience, including processes, portfolio, solution/service design and onboarding, in a leading Managed Cloud Services organization.
• Strong experience with storage architectures and one or more SAN technology, e.g. EMC, Hitachi, NetApp etc.
• Experienced in Pacemaker and HA/DR Solutions.
• Architect level certification with one or more hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Good to Have

• Functional expertise in one or more Application components: Master Data Management/Governance, Information Lifecycle Management, Data aging (pertaining to SAP S/4HANA)
• Familiarity with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and/or SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and other SAP SaaS solutions
• Familiarity with other SAP Database products – SAP ASE, SAP IQ, SAP Replication Server.
• Familiarity with RISE with SAP offerings
• Familiarity with Jira for projects
• Familiarity with Artificial intelligence / Machine learning & leverage that knowledge in existing processes or delivery

About the Team:

The ECS CAE Data Management team is a key pillar within the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) CAE organization and is the common theme across all CAE areas for database and data management technologies. Our mission is to establish reliable and efficient data foundations with best-in-class database and data management capabilities for ECS. This team works across all ECS CAE areas for database and data management technologies, providing expertise for operational excellence, analytics and insights, and automation driven intelligent data operations.

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