Job Description

Role - Lead Consultant
Position - SAP Basis – Migration Consultant
Location - Stuttgart, Germany


Technical skills (Required - Mandatory)

• SAP Basis & SAP Basis Security Design & Architecture Experience is mandatory
• SAP certification for OS/DB migration
• Experience in preparing the SAP infrastructure bill of material for on-prem, Azure & AWS deployments based on the architecture requirements.
• SAP NetWeaver, all recent releases
• S/4HANA conversion expertise
• D Databases: HANA, Oracle, MSSQL, SAP DB/MaxDB, DB2, Sybase,
• Good understanding of the underlying infrastructure stack: Hypervisor, OS (UNIX, Windows), Storage, Network
• Software related HA/DR approaches and tools (Database replication, Oracle RAC, MSSQL always-on, SAP ERS)
• Infrastructure based HA/DR approaches and tools (cluster, storage replication, Site Recovery Manager)
• Proven experience in delivering Automations
• Downtime minimized migration approaches
• Tuning and optimization of migration processes
• Expertise in Version/EhP upgrades
• Expertise in Capacity Planning
• Expertise in SAP on AWS and Azure cloud
• Conceptual knowledge of Network routing
• SAP related archiving platforms (e.g. Opentext/IXOS, IBM common store) and WORM storage solutions (e.g. EMC Centera, iTernity ICAS)
• Monitoring platforms: Avantra/XANDRIA, Nagios, Icinga, SolarWinds
• SAP R/3 (outdated versions)
• SAP Business Objects

• SAP Content Server
• SAP Solution Manager core functions
• Server migration tools
• File replication tools
• Backup infrastructure
• Monitoring platforms: Avantra/XANDRIA, Nagios, Icinga, SolarWinds
• Host spool systems
• Test tools (e.g. LoadRunner, NeoLoad)

• English, German

• Excellent in verbal and written communication.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Proven experience with migration to Cloud as well as within on-premise infrastructure
• Understanding of compliance requirements related to SAP migrations
• ITIL certification
• PMP certification or equivalent
• Test planning and supervision

• Design of customer specific migration strategies
• Lead migration planning workshops
• Define target technical architecture for SAP landscapes
• Development of migration factory processes for high amount of systems including development of automation approaches
• Performance tuning of SAP systems
• Downtime minimized migration processes
• Identification of infrastructure requirements (e.g. Network Bandwidth, Physical Media shipment)
• Presentation of migration planning to internal and customer stakeholder
• Consulting on the migration of non-SAP systems closely related to the SAP environment
• Planning of technical migration tests
• Consulting of internal and external support teams regarding application migration tests
• Supervision of migrations performed by the migration team
• Collaboration with internal and external support teams, including vendor support
• Troubleshooting and optimization of individual migrations
• Migration of SAP related tools & outdated SAP / database products
• Plan & implement S/4HANA Conversions, EHP upgrades, version upgrades
• Automate migration assessment and execution steps.
• Migration of non-SAP systems
• Experience in Unicode conversions