Senior SAP BASIS Architect/Administrator

MUST BE STRONG IN INFRASTRUCTURE and IMPLEMENTATION!!

We have an immediate position available within an SAP Team for a Senior SAP Basis Architect and Administrator.  This position will have ownership of the technical environment of a multinational implementation of SAP covering CRM, ECC, BI and Solution Manager including Enterprise Portal. 

Responsibilities include: 

• Leadership of Basis and Security Administration resources
• Coordination of activities with current Infrastructure Hosting Partner
• Liaison to other MIS infrastructure resources (i.e. desktop, networking, etc.)
• Establish policies and procedures based on best practices for basis and security administration.
• Leverage skills and techniques to maximize system performance.
• Utilize and refine sizing models to plan for growth in business and new implementations.
• Lead project for potential re-insourcing of infrastructure environment. 

Successful candidate must have expertise in integrating and operating a multiple stack environment (e.g. CRM, ECC, Solution Manager) as well as deep expertise in performance analysis, remediation and tuning. 

Other requirements include: 

• 8 to 12 years of experience as a SAP Basis Architect and Administrator.
• Multiple lifecycle implementation experience as a senior member of a basis team.
• Experience with Java Stack installation and administration (e.g. CRM IPC, Enterprise Portal, Visual Administrator).
• Experience with selection, installation and implementation of servers, database and SAP application.
• Experience working with vendors in use of SAP recognized sizing models for applications.
• Experience installing and administering SAP GUI Installation Servers and SAP Print Servers.
• Specific Basis installation and administration with environments and tools including CRM 5.0, ECC 6.0, BI 7.0, EP 6.0, Solution Manager 7.0 on NW2004S or beyond, Visual Administrator.
• Familiarity with SAP and Vertex integration highly desired.

Experience with Service Desk and Change Request Management highly desired.  Hands on configuration and implementation of Change Request Management an extra plus.