Job Description

Did you always want to work in a company where your work can have a real impact? Do you enjoy working in an international environment with lots of room for personal development?  

We have an exciting opportunity at the Boxmeer facility for a Senior Specialist - SAP Basis Architect

Welcome to our team
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.

Purpose of the role
As a Senior Specialist - SAP Basis Architect, you will work with a globally diverse set of teams that includes Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) Basis, Security, Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP), SAP functional team members, Infrastructure team and other IT process partners providing support for existing and new initiatives.

The candidate will work closely with and advise the SAP Technical Architect on architectural topics and new applications / technologies to be introduced.

The candidate will lead some cross-functional projects, relied upon to answer complex questions, and assists with program-wide initiatives and it is expected that the candidate can lead technical initiatives and be hands-on.

Key responsibilities

• Work closely with and manage the planning / execution and delivery of activities to be performed by our service provider;
• Establish SAP specific technical standards, technical strategy and best practices to support implementation teams by working closely with them;
• Support product mapping exercise based on detailed analysis of requirements and produce SAP specific solution specifications;
• Provide direction to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Center of Excellence teams for solution realization and candidate should be able to invite self to discussions that are relevant from a technical point of view;
• Lead project teams by working in partnership with Project Managers. Review infrastructure requirements, system landscape design & Security integrations for required SAP modules;
• Evaluate SAP products offered by SAP and/or 3rd party providers, as part of ongoing and future product strategy;
• Able to work within and lead technical teams on issues resolution and performance tuning;
• Installing, managing, patching and upgrading SAP applications. SAP client and system refreshes;
• Understanding of DB administration along with DB replication and HA/DR processes;
• Perform SAP system monitoring and schedule jobs;
• Provide SAP product specific guidance in integration and data architecture areas.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream;
• 7+ years of experience implementing SAP projects with hands on Basis experience on the following: SAP S/4HANA or ECC, BW, PI, Portals, Solution Manager, System upgrades, system/client refreshes, Disaster Recovery, High Availability;
• Preferred 3+ years of experience on S/4 HANA;
• Review infrastructure requirements, system landscape design & Security integrations for required SAP modules;
• Evaluate SAP products offered by SAP and/or 3rd party providers, as part of ongoing and future product strategy;
• Able to work within and lead technical teams on issues resolution and performance tuning;
• Installing, managing, patching and upgrading SAP applications;
• SAP client and system refreshes;
• Understanding of DB administration along with DB replication and HA/DR processes;
• Work closely with SAP, vendors, peer groups to ensure we are staying current with ERP strategy and technology;
• Perform SAP system monitoring and schedule jobs;
• SAP Basis experience working on SAP S/4HANA deployments on Cloud platforms (example: AWS, GCP or Azure).

What we offer
We welcome you to a truly global, dynamic and challenging environment with great opportunities for personal development. Our benefits are very competitive

• Competitive salary;
• 35,5 days of leave;
• Attractive collective health care insurance package with considerable reduction rates;
• Solid Pension Plan;
• Bonus plan subject to the company annual results;
• Flexible working arrangements.

Animal Health Division
Our Animal Health division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to the health and well-being of animals. We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world’s food supply and have a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society and our planet. We offer one of our industry’s most innovative portfolio of products, services and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species.

                      

For questions about this vacancy
Please send an email including the vacancy number and job title to the following email address: [email protected]

Required Skills:

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP), Architecture Development, Computer Science, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP ABAP HR, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), SAP HANA Administration, SAP Implementations, SAP Landscape, SAP Project System (PS), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Security Administration, SAP Technical Architecture, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture

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Job Posting End Date:

03/10/2026

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