Job Description:
Job Description
Role: Lead Technology Analyst – SAP BASIS
Description:As a Lead Technology Analyst for Airbus Aerostructures, oversee and optimize the design, maintenance, and day-to-day administration of core SAP landscapes. This role bridges business needs with robust technical architecture and rules, ensuring high availability, stability, and optimal performance across all enterprise platforms, with a primary focus on ERP environments. In addition, the role drives operational efficiency by spearheading automation initiatives for process definitions, service catalogs, and infrastructure maintenance within an international, multi-functional team.
Job Responsibilities:
Core Administration: Manage and execute end-to-end SAP BASIS administration and technical core tasks, including system installations, upgrades, support packages (SPAM/SAINT), patches, fixes, and add-on software component deployments.
Performance & Monitoring: Proactively monitor and analyze system performance (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, and disk space) to implement tuning strategies that prevent system downtime or degradation.
Landscape Management: Maintain multi-landscape environments through environment copies, client administration, system refreshes, and advanced transport management system lifecycle configurations (including Solution Manager ChaRM).
Connectivity & Operations: Configure and manage RFC destinations, partner profiles, ALE administration, and inbound/outbound queues. Oversee background job scheduling and background execution tasks within the database planning calendar.
Security & Compliance: Handle single sign-on (SSO) setups, SAML integrations, and SSL certificate applications and renewals to maintain strict alignment with Airbus compliance policies.
Automation & Evolution: Contribute to team initiatives aimed at automating process definitions, catalog management, and tooling maintenance. Define and suggest SAP best practices and golden rules of role management.
Incident & Problem Management: Support SAP systems running on High Availability (HA) platforms. Perform deep root cause analysis, trace evaluations, and execute standard support activities (SDCCN, SAP Service connections, object registration, and SAP incident tracking).
Communication & Reporting: Translate complex business requirements into technical solutions while engaging directly with European customers and international stakeholders. Prepare and deliver timely daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly operational reports.
Job Qualifications:
Graduate with 9+ years of core SAP BASIS experience in large-scale, enterprise-level SAP system landscapes (ERP ECC, Solution Manager ChaRM, Quality Management, Job scheduling tool and Fiori integrated ecosystems).
Deep technical knowledge and an analytical mindset required to execute proactive measures, performance tuning, and deep root cause troubleshooting.
Hands-on experience in performing technical core tasks like SAP installations, end-to-end provisioning, system refreshes, and Java support package updates.
Proven experience working directly with European clients, possessing exceptional customer-facing communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Strong understanding of modern distributed architecture, automation workflows, and infrastructure catalog maintenance.
Additional Expertise:
Practical experience or knowledge in SAP Security & Authorizations.
Hands-on experience with S/4HANA, S4HC and SAP BTP Administration.
Strong technical familiarity with HANA Database Administration.
Operating System Administration & OS-Level Access
Success Metrics:
Consistently ensure the on-time delivery and technical quality ("first-time-right") of infrastructure projects.
Bring innovative, automated, and cost-effective solutions to daily operations.
Achieve high customer satisfaction ratings through excellent communication and delivery metrics.
Ensure absolute availability, stability, and peak performance of production and non-production landscapes.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company:
Airbus India Private LimitedEmployment Type:
Permanent-------
Experience Level:
ProfessionalJob Family:
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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [email protected].
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
Skills Required
- Graduate degree
- 9+ years of core SAP BASIS experience in large-scale enterprise SAP landscapes
- Hands-on experience with SAP installations, system provisioning, system refreshes, upgrades, support packages, patches and add-on deployments
- Deep technical knowledge for proactive performance tuning and root-cause troubleshooting
- Experience working directly with European clients and international stakeholders; strong customer-facing communication
- Strong understanding of distributed architecture, automation workflows and infrastructure/catalog maintenance
- Practical experience or knowledge in SAP Security and Authorizations
- Hands-on experience with S/4HANA, S4HC and SAP BTP administration
- Technical familiarity with HANA database administration
- Operating system administration and OS-level access experience
Airbus Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Airbus and has not been reviewed or approved by Airbus.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive in several locations, including medical, dental, and vision options available from day one in the U.S. Access to life insurance, disability coverage, and employee assistance/wellbeing support adds breadth to the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as a meaningful part of the package through plans such as a 401(k) with company matching in the U.S. These programs strengthen long-term financial security beyond base wages.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are described as generous in some settings, including vacation availability from day one and extended holiday coverage. Flexible working arrangements and hybrid options further increase the perceived value of time-related benefits.
Airbus Insights
What We Do
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2020, it generated revenues of €49.9 billion and employed a workforce of around 130,000. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as one of the world’s leading space companies. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide. Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry and a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We believe that it’s not just what we make, but how we make it that counts; promoting responsible, sustainable and inclusive business practices and acting with integrity. Our people work with passion and determination to make the world a more connected, safer and smarter place, on the ground, in the sky and in space.
