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Introduction

As a Package Consultant at IBM, get ready to tackle numerous mission-critical company directives. Our team takes on the challenge of designing, developing and re-engineering highly complex application components and integrating software packages using various tools. You will use a mix of consultative skills, business knowledge, and technical expertise to effectively integrate packaged technology into our clients' business environment and achieve business results. 

 

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM Consulting helps our clients fundamentally redesign experiences to create new sources of value, digitally reinvent their operations for great efficiency and transform their entire enterprises through cognitive. We invite you to consider joining IBM's global reach, outcome-focused methodologies, domain skills and deep industry expertise that are helping transform the way we live and work. The CIC's are IBM’s highest performing delivery centers worldwide – for retention, client satisfaction and utilization. Our employees are empowered to stay and grow within IBM. 

  • We are very focused on continuous skill development – staff training is our third largest annual Centre investment. Employees are immersed in a culture of learning and constant growth 

  • Investment in key partnership with universities, government and private sector groups which has resulted in IBM having a key influencing role in Nova Scotia’s ICT industry, especially in talent development 

Be a part of making the world more instrumented, interconnected - and intelligent. Join us. 
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. We are seeking highly motivated and experienced person with excellent communication, analytical skills, and SAP Basis work experience, to fulfill the key role of SAP Basis Lead on an S/4HANA Transformation Project.  

Your responsibilities will include: 

  • Analyzes, designs, builds, and/or configures activities necessary for the initial build or periodic refresh of components for the SAP environments. 

  • Lead the planning and execution of the SAP S/4HANA migration, including system upgrades, data migrations, and technical landscape optimization. 

  • Implement strategies for optimizing the performance and scalability of SAP systems, including monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting. 

  • Establish and maintain high availability and disaster recovery solutions for SAP landscapes to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. 

  • Implement and manage SAP security policies and authorizations, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of critical business data. 

  • Work closely with project teams, functional analysts, and data leads to ensure seamless integration of SAP Basis activities with overall project goals. 

  • Create and maintain system documentation, including technical specifications and procedures. 

  • Facilitate knowledge transfer sessions to ensure the skill development of team members. 

  • Incident and Problem Management: Lead incident and problem resolution efforts, collaborating with support teams to address and resolve issues in a timely manner. 

 

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • Extensive experience as an SAP Basis professional, with a focus on S/4HANA 

  • In-depth knowledge of SAP technical architecture, system administration, and performance optimization. 

  • Requires knowledge of available infrastructure, related system software, system integration techniques, network management. 

  • Wide Experience in S/4HANA, ECC, NetWeaver, BW4/HANA, BTP, Cloud Connector, Fiori/Gateway (Embedded and Distributed), Solution Manager, Web Dispatcher, Business Objects Platform (Business Intelligence and Data Services), Lumira Platform, SLT. 

  • Proficient in HANA Database administration. This includes but is not limited to administration via HANA studio and operating system interfaces, implementation of HA/DR replication, execution of failover procedures (with Pacemaker proficiency), utilization of HANA cockpit, backup administration, among other responsibilities. 

  • Experience working with SaaS solutions such as SAC, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Fieldglass, Concur is an asset. 

  • Ability to drive the client to make difficult decisions during transformation programs, navigate complex business problems, and translate to SAP functional requirements. 

  • Strong understanding of SAP security and authorization concepts. 

  • Experience in Implementations, Upgrades, OS/DB Migrations, Unicode conversions. 

  • Experience and knowledge of additional database technologies such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, etc. 

  • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment 

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with remote office locations. 

  • Growth-mindset: Willingness to learn new technologies and processes. 

  • Strong presentation skills with high degree of comfort in communicating with developers, offering managers, sellers, and executive management. 

  • Ability to plan and estimate development tasks (ideally within an Agile framework) 

  • Ability to capture best practices and produce required project documentation. 

 

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ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.