Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you're empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work. This position will be located in: Fargo , ND or Bismarck, ND or Charlotte, NC or Phoenix, AZ or Maple Grove, MN or Nashville, TN or Kansas City, MO or Remote work available Job Summary Provides leadership for the day-to-day operations of the IT SAP System Administration Team responsible for systems level management of BSE's SAP and Database Management Systems. Leads and supports company strategic projects and internal IT projects. Monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots the SAP technical environment and Database Management Systems. Develops and maintains technical documentation and disaster recovery procedures. Maintains SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to adhere to SAP Security best practices. Implements various SAP Products and Solutions which include installation, upgrades, migration, conversions/consolidation of systems to latest SAP technology and cloud-based platforms, requirement gathering, SAP & HANA sizing and maintenance of SAP landscape. Responsibilities Essential Functions Provides daily technical leadership for the IT SAP System Administration Team with an emphasis on continued growth, maintenance, and operation of our SAP, database management, and middleware technologies Plans, analyzes, configures, monitors, tunes, and troubleshoots SAP systems, database management systems, SAP middleware systems Develops and maintains technical documentation, troubleshoots, resolves problems, monitors capacity and performance, and tests disaster recovery procedures Designs and converts SAP ECC systems by migrating to the latest SAP S/4 HANA products such as 1909 running on cloud platforms such as SAP HEC, AWS and Azure & deployment of SAP Fiori front-end server FES 6.0 Integrates S/4 HANA with multiple legacy and SAP systems on-premise and cloud connectors-based APIs Responsible for successful delivery, ensuring quality and timely deliverables through the project cycle Designs complex SAP landscape, involving multiple New Dimension products. Sets up HA and DR (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) solutions on-premise and cloud environments such as SAP HEC, AWS and AZURE Completes SAP upgrades using SUM and migration to HANA using DMO and implements SAP ACTIVATE for S/4HANA Completes daily SAP administration in a very complex landscape, activity planning, refresh, system maintenance, system decommission, storage space utilization and management, patching, notes application, incident management, problem management and resolution Implements specialized solution manager capabilities namely, technical monitoring, ChaRM for transport and change management, Business Process Repository, Business Process Monitoring Responsible for project documentation and vendor coordination for technical design, solution and delivery Manages the complex SAP HANA landscapes with SAP HANA BIGDATA components such as SDA, SDI, SLT for real-time replications and migration of HANA 1.0 to 2.0 with MDC (Multi Data Container) Provides expertise in Database management for HANA and a non-HANA DB Works across ITIL and Project Life Cycle delivery landscapes, which includes but is not limited to agile applications development, support and deployment Focuses on building solutions and maintaining, optimizing and improving applications and systems Contributes to a business and technical blueprint and customizes the respective Software Package Core Module Leads and supports IT projects Analyzes, develops, and maintains SAP architectures. Manages and configures database management systems Manages technical changes that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance Supports complex environments consisting of Sandbox, Development, Test, QA, and Production systems Con igures alerts; determines thresholds of alerts within monitoring systems as well as third party monitoring systems Resolves system problems and applies the appropriate course of action Manages incident tickets, including complex troubleshooting Helps to resolve complex issues, establish priorities, and makes decisions within guidelines, budgets and authority Assists with SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to best practices Non-essential Functions Performs off-hours support as needed including month-end processes Provides 3rd level support for the IT Helpdesk Acts as a mentor to other members of the team Responsible for testing, end-user training and provide subject matter expert in SAP & HANA Technologies Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or other designate Qualifications Four-year degree in computer science, information systems, or management information systems or the equivalent in work experience. Minimum 5+ years of experience working in an enterprise IT environment and experience maintaining enterprise level systems. Experience with SAP administration Windows and/or Linux platforms. Experience designing and building high availability and disaster recovery systems preferred. Technical knowledge requirements: SAP systems, Microsoft SQL Server Administration, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), SAP HANA, EDI Requires the ability to read, write and speak in English. SAP Products Suites including SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA product family SAP Business Objects products including BOBJ and SAP DS SAP Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Focused Build, SAP Focused RUN SAP Implementation Tools: SWPM, SUM, Maintenance Planner, Quick Sizer Database Management Tools: HANA Studio, HANA LM, Cockpit, MSSQL Studio, ASE isql Cloud Technologies: SAP HEC, AWS, Azure Operating Systems: Windows, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux etc. Skills and Abilities Strong prioritization and problem solving skills. Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication and reading skills Ability to effectively plan and organize. Strong collaboration skills. Excellent customer service skills include being competent, accurate, responsive and engaged. Physical Requirements Frequency at which you would carry/lift in a typical day: Occasionally 0 - 33% Frequently34 - 66% Continuously: 67 - 100% Lift from Waist: < than 10 lbs. - Not at all 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Lift from Floor: < than 10 lbs. - Frequently 10 to 25 lbs. - Occasionally 26 to 50 lbs. - Occasionally 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Carried for Distance: < than 10 lbs. - Not at all 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all 100+ lbs. - Not at all Physical Activity Frequency at which you would do the following in a typical day: Sitting (a continuous period of being seated) - Continuously Standing (for sustained periods of time) - Frequently Walking (moving about on foot to accomplish tasks) - Frequently Bending/stooping (downward and forward) - Occasionally Crawling (moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet) - Not at all Climbing/Walking Stairs (ascending or descending) - Occasionally Reaching (extending arms in any direction) - Frequently Crouching/squatting (bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine) - Occasionally Kneeling (bending legs at knee to come to rest on knee(s)) - Occasionally Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling) - Occasionally Repetitive motion (substantial movement (motions) or the wrists, hands, and/or fingers) - Continuously Pivoting... 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