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# SAP Basis Administrator Lead

- **Company:** Accenture
- **Location:** Arlington, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $116,900.0 - $243,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Disaster Recovery, SAP ERP, Performance Tuning, SAP (Applications), SAP HANA, SAP IS-U, SAP Security, SAP Application Management Services, Cloud Platform System, System Availability
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d8298a1de0bbbe48

## About the Role

* 7+ years of SAP Basis Administration experience
 * Experience in SAP Technical Architecture across complex utility or enterprise environments
 * Strong experience with HANA administration and performance tuning
 * Cloud platform knowledge (e.g., AWS, Azure) and infrastructure design capability
 * Experience designing HA/DR architectures for mission-critical workloads
 * Proven ability to design monitoring frameworks and lead technical operations readiness

Nice to have:

 * Bachelor's degree in related field
 * Experience architecting SAP IS-U environments for major utilities
 * Experience leading modernization or cloud transition initiatives for SAP landscapes
 * Hands-on experience developing operations runbooks and transition frameworks

Eligibility Requirements:

 * Must be a U.S. Citizen
 * Must be eligible to obtain a government clearance

## Description

The SAP Basis Administrator Lead owns SAP IS-U technical architecture including infrastructure design, system landscape, performance strategy, high availability, disaster recovery, and technical operations readiness. They are responsible for architecture leadership across all SAP IS-U technical domains and ensures stable, scalable, secure, and high-performing environments that meet operational and regulatory requirements., * Define SAP IS-U technical architecture, including infrastructure sizing and landscape design

 * Establish performance strategy and drive optimization across SAP, HANA, and integrated components
 * Architect and validate high availability and disaster recovery solutions
 * Develop and govern SAP security architecture aligned with compliance and audit needs
 * Build and implement monitoring frameworks that ensure proactive issue detection
 * Lead operations transition, readiness, and handover processes
 * Deliver technical documentation, infrastructure designs, landscape diagrams, performance strategies, HA/DR procedures, security designs, monitoring frameworks, and operations runbooks


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