Lead Basis Administrator

HD Supply is one of the largest industrial distributors in North America. The company provides a broad range of products and value-add services to approximately 500,000 customers with leadership positions in maintenance, repair and operations, water infrastructure and residential and non-residential construction sectors.

Serve as subject matter expert in the design, implementation, and support of critical ECC 6.0, Solution Manager, VIRSA, Content Server, and other SAP systems. Utilize technical skills to respond to critical situations, problem identification, and problem resolution. Work with support teams as well as the business and technical community.

**Major Tasks, Responsibilities and Key Accountabilities** * Serves as a lead integrator to the functional business teams for technical services provided by the BASIS team, client infrastructure provider, and vendors/other service providers. * Collaborates with team to determine strategy and plan for system implementations and upgrades. * Develops practices and procedures to manage technologies based on 'best practice' standards. Leads effort to develop technical standards to support and operate technologies within the system landscape. * Develops methodologies and practices to manage and plan system capacity based on projected growth rate to ensure system performance remains at acceptable levels. * Contributes to the development of strategies and methodologies to manage the system's lifecycle program in terms of ensuring compliance with vendor releases. * Designs, develops, and maintains a system landscape that accommodates multiple support functions such as prototyping, development, testing, and training. * Defines the processes and procedures necessary to operate and monitor the technical environments. Implements and supports enterprise applications in a global environment. * Develops and tracks activities through project plans. Ensures that projects meet established time and cost parameters while adhering to established practices, procedures, and standards. **Nature and Scope** * Displays the highest level of critical thinking and analysis in bringing successful resolution to high impact, complex, and/or cross department problems. Makes prompt, sound decisions when faced with complex and often contradictory alternatives that result in successful outcomes. * Operates with considerable latitude. Situations may have little or no precedent requiring original or new concepts or approaches without guidance from others. Reaches decisions under conditions of uncertainty. * Develops or engages/directs others in developing innovative solutions to important, highly complex strategic and operating problems; cross department considerations are often present. **Work Environment** * Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. * Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable. * Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

**Minimum Qualifications** * Must be eighteen years of age * Must pass the Drug Test * Must pass the Background Check * Must pass pre-employment tests if applicable **Education and Experience** * Typically requires BS/BA in related discipline. Generally 8+ years of experience in related field; certification is required in some areas OR MS/MA and generally 5+ years of experience in related field. Certification is required in some areas. **Preferred Qualifications & Job Specific Details:** **Required Skills** * 4 to 8 years of relative experience; SAP Basis Administration * SAP SCM or SAP liveCache experience * Able to work independently with minimal supervision **Desired Skills** * SAP Basis Administration Certification * Strong NetWeaver experience and familiarity with SAP ECC 5.0/6.0, CRM, SCM, BW, Enterprise Portal, and Solution Manager XI/UNIX/Linux * Experience with High-Available Cluster solutions for SAP/Basic Oracle * Support Pack Installation/Performance Monitoring/SAP heterogeneous copy/On Call Support Capability/Change Management experience * Technical experience to manage and support SAP including general Basis Administration, Work Bench Organizer, Data Dictionary, Transport Management system, Client Strategy, System Landscape, and On-line Support System.