# SAP Basis & Security Lead

**Company:** [Al-Watania Information Systems](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/8v7ZoCnHmWih8zhtwsib8a.md)
**Location:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
**Workplace:** on site
**Department:** Managed Services

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## Description

-   Directly manage, mentor, and task-assign the SAP Basis technical team.

-   Lead the administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, ALM, Cloud Connector, etc.).

-   Technical Leadership for SAP Basis operations, establishing best practices, standards, and operational guidelines.

-   Design, plan, and execute SAP system upgrades, system refreshes, kernel updates, database migrations, and patch implementations (Support Packages/Stack).

-   Manage backup/recovery strategies, high availability (HA) setups, and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.

-   Oversee SAP system security, user authorization concepts, transport management, and audit compliance protocols.

-   Manage day-to-day work for internal Basis engineers to ensure strict adherence to SLAs

## Requirements

\- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.

\- **10+ years of SAP Basis experience** with proven experience as SAP Basis Lead / Technical Lead.

\- Strong hands-on experience with SAP landscapes (**S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, SAP HANA**).

\- Expertise in SAP Basis administration, upgrades, migrations, system refreshes, kernel updates, and performance tuning.

\- Strong knowledge of SAP Security, user authorization, roles, and audit compliance.

\- Experience managing SAP Basis teams and ensuring SLA compliance.

\- Experience with HA/DR, backup & recovery strategies.

\- Good knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems.

\- Strong leadership and communication skills.