Dow Jones is looking to design, build, and optimize its enterprise SAP platforms, specifically focusing on ensuring the stability, performance, and alignment of the SAP SOX Financials application with business and enterprise objectives.
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of hands-on SAP Basis administration (preferably S/4HANA), with exposure to tools such as Process Orchestration, Solution Manager/CHARM, Cloud ALM, SAP BTP, SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Sphere, Convergent Mediation, Convergent Charging and OpenText Archive Server.
- Experience implementing Single Sign On, certificate management, and secure authentication for SAP S/4 Hana platform.
- Strong AWS infrastructure experience; a core need as it interacts with SAP integrations.
- 5+ years leading SAP infrastructure/implementation projects, system upgrades, and cutovers under tight timelines.
- Experience with containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) for SAP components.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps for SAP landscapes.
- Knowledge of SAP Fiori, PI/PO, and integrations with non-SAP systems.
Responsibilities
- Engineer and optimize SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, BW, etc.) for scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Architect and implement SAP migrations, upgrades, and patching strategies across on-prem and cloud environments, with focus on high-performance platforms, reusable components, and scalable infrastructure.
- Automate SAP system provisioning, monitoring, and recovery using modern tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).
- Design high-availability large-scale solutions, ensuring compliance with business continuity requirements.
- Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to ensure end-to-end system resilience and compliance. Also set technical direction and influence architectural decisions.
- Identifies and proposes strategies around technical problems, troubleshooting complex system issues across SAP Basis, Application and SAP landscape.
- Provide engineering oversight on performance tuning, transport management, and security hardening.
Other
- Experience mentoring and guiding teams (3+ members), third-party service providers, and driving collaboration across stakeholders.
- Strong communication (technical to business translation), stakeholder management, organizational and multitasking ability, relationship building, and results-driven mindset.
- Resourceful, self-motivated, quick to learn new technologies, and able to recommend improvements proactively.
- Ensure successful business events like Financial period close timely completion with pro-active monitoring, issue resolution and after hour coverage
- Solves complex ambiguous challenges with structured methodologies
