Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire

Rate: £500 per day (INSIDE OF IR-35). Rate to Umbrella. (PAYE Also an option)

Duration: 6 months initially (long term project extensions)

SAP Basis Contractor

Job Purpose:

The SAP Basis Contractor will report directly into the SAP Technical Lead. The purpose of the role is to:

To bring experience to a newly formed SAP Basis Team. Helping that team to gain knowledge while still meeting the required support priorities
Work with the Infrastructure teams to ensure a stable environment and the quick resolution of errors.
Work closely with SAP Development colleagues to ensure a smooth transition of enhancement and fixes from Development to Production environments
Work with in the team to provide an appropriate response level in resolving SAP production environment issues and promoting change requests;
Work with the Project team to ensure SAP environments and landscapes meet the requirement for each delivery/Release.
This role is pivotal within the organization. The successful candidate must be experienced and conversant with state of the art support methodologies.

Qualification and Experience:

The role demands a SAP Basis Analyst with a minimum of 5 years’ experience to work with in a team that is accountable for:
Pro-active collaboration and stakeholder management will be second nature and a core strength. Ability to influence internal departments in order to obtain co-operation;
Strong SAP support skills, ideally developed through solid experience;
Technically proficient in SAP ECC6, desired is a broad exposure to the modules being implemented (FICO, PS, PY, SC, SRM, Ariba, SuccessFactors);
Experience of working cross-culturally and cross -functionally, and ability to adapt personal style to different environments;
ITIL v3 Foundation
Previous experience of supporting integration between SAP Core and other interfaced applications

Major Tasks and Activities:

The Basis team is responsible for
Checking background processes
Monitoring User sessions, Work processes, update records, lock entries and client copies
Applying pack upgrades, kernel upgrades and transports in line with the upgrade policy (policy is yet to be defined)
Stop & start activities on the ECC system
Reviewing start up logs & traces and ECC profiles
Maintaining & reviewing SAP OSS notes and advises SAP Basis Team Lead on applicability to the company
Organising Database and Redo log backups
ECC performance tuning
Managing the SAP printing system
Reviewing systems logs, short dumps, system traces and system logs and proposes any corrective actions required
Carrying out installation and post-installation activities
In Addition the SAP Basis Contractor will be required to
Developing Patching schedules, agreeing with the Business and Project delivery teams suitable maintenance windows.
Determining the landscape requirements for BAU Support and Project deliver and delivering these as required.
Evaluating and then implement support tools as required.
To help improve the breadth and depth of knowledge in the Basis Team

SAP Basis Contractor (INSIDE IR-35)