Company Description
We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.
Job Description
As the Principal SAP BASIS Administrator, you will provide leadership of the future design and implementation of SAP S/4 on SAP RISE for NBCUniversal. This is a key role within the Corporate Technology organization providing planning, design, leadership, and architectural design for future SAP solutions to be used by NBCUniversal.
This individual contributor position will lead and direct a core group of SAP BASIS Engineers. This is a global role supporting NBCUniversal business worldwide.
Responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership of daily operations for SAP BASIS activities, including oversight and accountability for relevant global incident/event/request queues, advanced people management of direct and indirect reports within the team. Including all PMP processes.
• Provide oversight and governance for projects, execute project plans, provide project estimates and landscape recommendations.
• Work in a fast-paced environment and cooperate with various project teams, including production support teams located off premise

Qualifications
Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors, Masters or higher degree in Computer Science or Information Systems from an accredited institution or equivalent
• 10+ years of SAP BASIS work experience;
• Demonstrated SAP HANA and SAP RISE experience required;
• Experience working in a consulting and/or large scale IT organization with at least 5 multi-country SAP project implementations of high complexity, at large scale and with a global user base.
• Completion of a 2+ previous SAP S/4 project upgrades
• Hands-on, in-depth SAP BASIS knowledge;
• Demonstrated SAP & SAP HANA on AWS public cloud experience required;
• Ability to work collaboratively across project teams;
• Ability to work flexible hours based on varying business requirements;
• Understanding of the nature of OLTP and OLAP systems, including specific roles of SAP S/4, BW, PO, Solution Management, SLT, Gateway, Enterprise Portal.
• Understanding the SAP application architecture, SAP NetWeaver technology (ABAP and Java, alike), instance, work-process nature and roles, ICM, IDOCs, BAPIs, RFCs, Logon Load Balancing, SAP router configuration and setup;
• Deployment approach and strategies for SAP GUI, EPM add-on, Analysis for Office (AOE), SAP HANA Studio; Experience with Fiori and other advanced SAP stacks;
• Solid understanding of best SAP practices, archiving, system copies, single-sign-on, encryption, SAP SNC;
• Experience integrating and operating 3rd party applications required for change management process, monitoring, troubleshooting;
• Experience installing, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting SAP applications and SAP HANA Databases;
• Experience following protocols and standards specific to SAP large scale implementation;
• Experience working with SAP support on troubleshooting various issues: understanding the nature of the problem, raising OSS incidents, providing necessary support to SAP analyst to investigate problems.
• 5+ years of experience managing people and directly leading teams, including goal setting, career path development and growth, and giving feedback.

Desired Characteristics:

• Familiarity with SAP HANA and other database systems: understanding backups, restores, and other database operations: index rebuilds, segment statistics collection, table partitioning, cost based optimizer, SQL tracing, locks, deadlocks, high-availability solutions. SAP MaxDB knowledge is a plus;
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems, networking and infrastructure concepts that are related to SAP environments: OS commands, OS account administration, disk and volume management, file system concepts, LANS, WANS, Routers, DNS, VPN, NAT, TCP/IP protocols, etc.;
• Familiarity with AWS concepts (cloud, zones, network load balancers, application load balancers, file-system solutions, etc.);
• Understanding the SAP HANA technology, detailed understanding of in-memory computing, backups and restores, BACKINT, SAP HANA Cockpit and SAP HANA Studio, HANA Replication Services solutions;
• Understanding high-availability, disaster-recovery concepts and SAP technology surrounding the following scenarios;
  • System landscape configurations and operations: administrating Sap applications: starting/stopping SAP instances, printer management, Sap security operations, monitoring the Sap system for health and performance issues, background jobs management operations, transport management system, Sap kernel updates, SAP application upgrades, implementing Sap OSS notes, applying SAP add-ons and support packages, application tuning;
• Expertise in IT & business controllership requirements
• Expertise in SAP security integration and controls
• Expertise on multiple SAP systems including SOH, S/4, BW, Solution Manager
• Excellent verbal/presentation and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills to engage with all levels of Business and IT
• A self-starter with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge
• Demonstrable collaboration and teamwork skills
• Strong adherence to IT/SAP project methodologies, and change control processes
• Experience using integration tools, such as the following:
  • Gentran Integration Suite™ (GIS) / Sterling Integrator
  • Tibco
  • Informatica
  • SAP Process Integration (SAP PI)
• Knowledge of Redwood job scheduling is highly desired.
• Experience with Worksoft, uPerfrom and HP ALM.

Additional Requirements:

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee's residence.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $210,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
Additional Information
NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.
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