SAP S4 HANA Platform Lead

Builders FirstSource (BFS) is embarking on a multi-year business transformation that will enable us to outperform our competition and enable industry transformation. In connection with this initiative, BFS will harmonize our core operations on SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud. To support this transformation, We are seeking a highly skilled SAP platform lead to join our dynamic team who has experience with SAP Basis, BTP administration.

ROLE SPECIFIC - ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the collaborative development of an application strategy that matches IT's stated goals and technology strategy and application roadmap(s) that supports BFS's needs.
• Leads projects from requirements to completion.
• Identifies service delivery gaps and implements plans to improve outcomes.
• Serves as point of contact or subject matter expert for the business on complex systems and coordinates work across teams.
• Maintains an understanding the business' needs, system functionality and processes to align IT strategy with areas of growth and potential cost savings.
• Creates the balance of the technical investment and the adoption/ reuse of the existing systems and tooling within team(s).
• Evaluates technical feasibility, design and security optimization, production issues and ensures technical quality throughout the development process.
• Identifies new technologies, industry trends and best practices to be incorporated into IT policies and roadmap.
• Maintains long-term relationships with vendors and other third-party resources to ensure high quality services are delivered consistently.
• Serves as the point person for interaction with multi-functional teams to eliminate blockers, hold technical discussions and solve immediate problems.
• Provides expert leadership and training to system administrators on new technologies or modifications and their impact on current applications

SAP TECHNICAL PLATFORM DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• SAP BASIS Administration: Manage and maintain SAP systems, including installation, configuration, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• SAP BTP Management: Administer and support SAP BTP services, ensuring seamless integration and operation of cloud applications.
• System Monitoring and Maintenance: Monitor system performance, perform regular maintenance, and apply patches and upgrades, as necessary.
• Troubleshooting and Support: Provide technical support for SAP applications, resolving issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Security Management: Implement and manage security measures to protect SAP systems and data.
• Backup and Recovery: Develop and maintain backup and recovery procedures to ensure data integrity and availability.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other IT teams, developers, and business users to support SAP projects and initiatives.
• Documentation Management: Govern and maintain comprehensive documentation of system configurations, procedures, and changes.
• SAP applications in scope: SAP BTP, SAP CALM,SAP S4Hana,ARIBA,IBP,SAC,SAP Identity Authentication Service (IAS) and Identity Provisioning Service (IPS) ,GRC - Governance, Risk, Compliance ,SAP BI (BO, BODS),SAP SLT,Solution Manager

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has supervisory responsibilities, including but not limited to supervising assigned team members (in-person and remote); talent selection and training; planning, assigning, and directing work; performance management, including conducting performance reviews; recognizing team members; addressing and resolving concerns timely, escalate for help when necessary.

This role will be responsible for managing the SAP platform teams from project implementation partners and application maintenance support teams belonging to external suppliers, working with them in close collaboration.

Review and govern release plans for project implementation and continuous improvement cycles.

Govern runbooks and system operation procedures for SAP applications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 10+ years relevant work experience in managing SAP platforms
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Provides in-depth expertise in technical and operational support of multiple components of SAP systems and in integration with OS, DB, server, network layers, and interfaces with third-party products.
• As a senior technical SAP Basis professional, partners and provides coaching for our SI partners SAP Basis Administration team.
• Maintenance of HANA Database via Studio and HANA Cockpit, troubleshooting of performance issues by checking log files.
• Coordination with SAP RISE team for system patching and maintenance activities
• Supports integration of SAP Systems with other business systems like SuccessFactors, Datasphere, ARIBA, SAP IBP, SAP CI/DS, SAP SLT & other systems
• Administration of SAP BTP platform including enablement of services and constant monitoring of service utilization
• Governs Solution Manager, Cloud ALM, CCMS and other tools including SAP Early Watch Alerts
• Defines, creates, reviews, updates, and maintains standard-operational-procedure documentation relating to SAP application support and processes.
• Performs SAP software application installation, configuration, integration, upgrade, enhancement-pack deployment, support pack and kernel patch updates
• Plans regular reviews of system sizing (capacity planning), disk / storage / server layout
• Completes performance monitoring of the SAP system landscape including work process monitoring, job terminations & system dumps.
• Experience with SAP cloud platform (SCP) Integration, Cloud Connector, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• Install, configure, manage and administration of SQL Server databases
• Configure and manage SAP transport management system including deployment of transports
• Administration of SSL certificates across the landscape
• Administration of BODS, DB creation, Access management, integrate the repositories and job management
• Administration of Fiori applications, experience with Activation of ODATA services, cache administration and Fiori based Application Deployment
• Experience in Performing SAP client copy: export and import as required
• Experience with SOX and ITIL process
• Strong technical knowledge in backup and recovery strategies, system refreshes, high availability, and disaster recovery scenarios
• Work in collaboration with system integrator teams and maintenance service provider teams in supervisor capacity to plan project platform strategies for different test cycles.

COMPETENCIES

• Evaluates Problems: Evaluates and analyzes different types of information objectively to identify appropriate solutions; writes fluently, establishing the key facts clearly and interprets numerical data effectively.
• Technical Communication/ Presentation: Communicates with clarity and precision, presenting complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.
• Adjusting and Driving Change: Takes a positive approach to tackling work and embraces change; invites feedback relating to performance and deals constructively with criticism. Identifies the need for and drives change when required to achieve objectives.
• Focuses on Customers: Understands and anticipates customer needs and takes action to provide high-quality products and services to exceed expectations.
• Demonstrates Business Acumen: Demonstrates working knowledge of market, economic, legal, and regulatory environments and how they impact the business.
• Agile Best Practices: Understands how agility is leveraged in IT ways of working. Adopts agile best practices as appropriate throughout the assigned work lifecycle. Responds to feedback quickly based on comments of internal and external customers and needs of the market.
• Bias for Action: Takes initiative and identifies what needs to be done and acts without waiting to be asked. Executes work in a timely manner. Suggests improvements to current ways of working.
• Provides Leadership: Makes decisions and takes responsibility; directs and leads others even in ambiguous circumstances, coordinating activities; provides encouragement and inspiration to help others succeed.
• Builds Effective Teams: Builds high performing teams by integrating a diversity of skills and personalities and creating a deep sense of accountability and shared purpose.
• Develops Talent: Focuses on developing, coaching, and mentoring talent to improve individual and organizational performance. Contributes to building talent that the industry, market, and BFS needs.
• Manages Stakeholders: Builds relationships and takes account of the needs of multiple stakeholders to influence and drive decisions for beneficial business outcomes.
• Drives Success: Takes action, initiates activity and seizes opportunities for new business; pursues goals with persistence and achieves outstanding results.

BFS COMPETENCIES

• Business and Financial Acumen
  
  
  
  • Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
  • Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
  • Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
  • Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
  • Understands customer sales and engagement.
  • Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
  • Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
  • Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.
  
  
  
  
• Results Driven
  
  
  
  • Holds self and others accountable.
  • Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
  • Manages competing priorities effectively.
  • Demonstrates appropriate urgency.
  • Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.
  • Embraces and follows best practices.
  • Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.
  
  
  
  
• Strategic Thinking and Decision Making
  
  
  
  • Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
  • Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
  • Balances short-and-long term priorities
  • Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
  • Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.
  
  
  
  
• Servant Leadership
  
  
  
  • Demonstrates humility by putting others first.
  • Builds trust-based relationships.
  • Leads by example with kindness and respect.
  • Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
  • Advocates for others
  • Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
  • Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.
  
  
  
  
• Emotional Intelligence
  
  
  
  • Demonstrates situational awareness - knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
  • Demonstrates self-awareness - understands strengths and weaknesses.
  • Demonstrates empathy - puts themselves in other's shoes.
  • Assumes positive intent.
  
  
  
  
• Develops and Leads Others
  
  
  
  • Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals, and expectations.
  • Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
  • Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
  • Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
  • Coaches and mentor others for their development.
  • Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.
  
  
  
  
• Growth Mindset
  
  
  
  • Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
  • Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.
  • Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
  • Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.
  • Sees possibilities over problems - actively seeks solutions.
  
  
  
  
• Innovation
  
  
  
  • Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
  • Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.
  • Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.
  • Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.
  
  
  
  
• Integrity
  
  
  
  • Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?
  • Communicates with honesty.
  • Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.
  • Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.
  • Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.
  
  
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Subject to both typical office environment and outside locations with temperature and weather variations.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional travel may be required to attend program-specific working sessions.

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Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You'll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore - all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company's active bonus policy for the respective year.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple - provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. To view all our benefit offerings click here www.bldrbenefits.com.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

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