Manager, SAP Basis

MSD

  • Hyderabad, Telangana
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 4 hours ago
Job DescriptionManager SAP BasisThe Opportunity
  • Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
  • Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
  • Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.Role OverviewAs a SAP Basis resource, the candidate 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.What will you do in this role:
  • 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.
What should you have:
  • Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
  • 4+ 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
  • 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).
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.Who we are:We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.What we look for:Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.#HYDIT2025Current Employees applyCurrent Contingent Workers applySearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
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