Key responsibilities:

• Serve as an interface with multiple sub-groups within a business unit or functional area such as Sales, Operations, Engineering, Service and Finance for the purpose of business technology alignment, solution discovery, service management, project portfolio management, and relationship management.
• Architect and design complex business process/business application solutions to address cross functional needs and convert design to functional and technical specifications. Oversee software application configuration, prepare and execute testing (unit, integration, performance, acceptance) and data conversions.  Identifies and recommend industry BKM's for integrated solution design and standards.
• Provides and/or oversees business application functional support services to meet customer performance, availability, service level agreements and customer satisfaction targets. Oversees monitoring of specific IT systems or set of systems and tuning of such systems for availability and performance. Drives completion of root cause analysis and resolution of outages or incident trends coordinating with infrastructure and technical teams, support providers and application vendors. Drives implementation of corrective and preventative actions.   Evaluates/recommends/plans life cycle for patches, point releases, and major upgrades.
• Delivers project and support services within area of responsibility within allocated budget. Develops project budgets. Develops understanding cost model and cost drivers for service(s) and recommend service area budgets and cost optimization activities. May be responsible for timely renewal of maintenance and subscription contracts.
• Ensures adherence to GIS project management, software application development, testing, service management, change management, RCA and other relevant processes, standards, governance and controls.  May manage execution of sox controls and testing and support internal and external audits. 
• Plan and manage medium to large scale cross functional projects  to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with guardrails of scope, timeline, budget and quality.
• Oversees/manages contingent workers performing services across multiple projects or service areas.  Responsible for the selection, on boarding and off boarding of contingent workers in a timely manner. Manages contingent worker project/task assignments and ensure work product quality. Approves contingent worker time sheets/costs.

Technical Knowledge:

• Strong SAP experience in analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering SAP Technical Architecture Solutions on public cloud.
• Good to have exceptional skills in Data Collection, Analysis and Representation.
• Essential to be capable of deriving an SAP Roadmap for the IT Landscape and provide technical inputs on Best Practices and Recommendations for IT Transformation and Digital Enablement
• Essential to have experience in SAP Cloud Solutions involving SAP Hardware Sizing and SAP Landscape Designing.
• Architecting S4 implementation and conversion.
• Selecting the appropriate Public cloud service based on compute, data, or security requirements
• Identifying appropriate use of Public cloud operational best practices.
• Must have strong knowledge on migrating and operating SAP on Azure / AWS/ GCP Public Cloud Infrastructure with a Platform as a Service model
• Expertise required on S/4HANA Conversion- minimum one end-to-end conversion.
• Good to have S/4HANA conversion certified Experience in S/4HANA Conversion readiness activities.
• Experience in S/4HANA Conversion (1709, 1809, 1909), OS/DB Migration, Installation, Patching, Upgrade, System Copy
• Experience in Heterogeneous Migrations to HANA (SOH migration) using DMO Experience in SAP Sizing for HANA version, Classic version, S/4HANA Cloud version
• Experience in Designing, deploy and migrate the SAP ECC system in on premise and on public cloud.
• Experience in HA and DR setup for HANA system and other databases.
• Experience in handling Production Support for BASIS efficiently acting as a technical escalation point 

Experience & Education:

• Bachelor's/Masters in Computer Science, IT, ECE or relevant stream
• 10 to 15 years of relevant Experience in SAP Basis

Business Expertise:

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services.

Leadership:

• May lead BASIS teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

Problem Solving:

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.

Impact:

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor's Degree

Skills:

Certifications:

Languages:

Years of Experience:

4 - 7 Years

Work Experience:

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.