SAP Basis Team Lead - Chessington, United Kingdom - Alliance Healthcare
Description
Job Description
About Us:
Alliance Healthcare is a leading international provider of pharmaceutical wholesaling, logistics, support with clinical trials, and other innovative healthcare services and solutions to independent pharmacists and pharmaceutical manufacturers across Europe and beyond. It is an exciting time for Alliance Healthcare as we have joined forces with Cencora. We are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures. Cencora is ranked#11 on the Fortune 500.
We have an essential role in the medical supply chain, and everything we do as a company will ultimately impact the end user, the patient. Our responsibility is to offer a reliable service, ensuring our customers receive the right product at the right place and time.
Position Summary:
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for the architecture, implementation, operations and performance of the SAP and 3rd party product landscapes. You will serve as one of the primary contacts within the organization for the SAP BASIS area. You will define and enforce standards related to the technology tower. Will be responsible for proactively identifying opportunities to utilize the technology to solve technical and business problems.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
· You will be the primary point of contact for all SAP Basis issues related to the SAP environment.
· You will work closely with Cloud architects, engineering, operations and other infrastructure teams to deploy and support Cloud resources and troubleshoot and resolve problems.
· You will be the interface with the Basis team to effectively manage the workload and ensure software consistency across the SAP landscape.
· You will actively manage the performance of the SAP landscape, including capacity planning and tuning.
· You will participate in the IT Change Management process and validate/approve all SAP-related changes.
· You will keep abreast of new developments and forecasts of future trends in SAP technology.
· You will work with internal and external customers to understand their requirements to form a forward-thinking architectural vision for the infrastructure of the Company.
· You will provide input and support new projects affecting the SAP environments.
· You will engage and interface directly with SAP as required for product support/questions.
· You will define solutions by identifying requirements and writing functional specifications; consult with technical subject matter experts.
· You will advise on options, risks, costs versus benefits and impact on other business processes and system priorities; contribute to cost versus benefit measures.
· You will perform related duties as assigned.
· You will lead projects and be responsible for deliverables.
· You will work on multiple, high to highly complex projects
Skills and Experience Required:
You must have experience with multiple SAP implementation lifecycles and production SAP infrastructure operations. Requires experience with implementation, operating, and performance management of SAP S/4 HANA, SAP PO, SAP Fiori, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BTP, SAP LVM, SAP HANA Cockpit, SAP SLT, SAP DS/IS, SAP ECC system on Oracle Database & SAP HANA in On-Prem and Public cloud such as Azure, GCP, AWS. Expertise with SAP product release upgrades, OS/DB Migration and SAP HANA DB upgrades. Good working knowledge of running SAP in High Availability and Disaster Recovery setup, Configuring SAP/HANA DB in HA products such as Veritas Pacemaker. Exposure to DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, and Nexus repository. Experience with SAP RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and BPiM (Business Process/Interface Monitoring) tools is a plus. Candidates should also have experience working with 3rd party 'bolt-on' applications, including but not limited to Vendavo, Vertex, OpenText Document management, OpenText Exstream and Redwood/CPS.
You should know about various Microsoft Azure Compute-related resources such as VM, Storage, ANF, ASG/NSG, Firewall, Backup, Web Application Firewall, Application Gateways, Load balancer, HA/DR, Networking, etc.
What we offer:
You can grow your career in a leading UK pharmaceutical wholesale company. You will join a friendly professional team dedicated to growing the business. We offer a competitive salary and an attractive bonus scheme.
What we'll do with your data:
We'll hold your information for as long as the position you have applied for is open and for up to 3 months after. Please let us know if you wish us to delete your personal information before this.
Alliance Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Our vision is to build a culture where diversity, equality, and inclusion are central to everything we do, powering more outstanding teamwork and innovation and inspiring us to help people worldwide lead happier, healthier lives. We are an equal opportunities employer on a mission to attract, develop and engage employees who reflect the diverse customers, patients, and communities we serve and to foster an inclusive culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and excited to drive superior business performance.