IT Technology Services Problem Management Specialist (6-9yrs) - BASIS/HANA

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For the Delivery Center in Bangalore, India, we are looking for an IT Technology Services Senior Specialist with a strong technical and process background and Service Management experience.

 Responsibilities:

• Drive technical resolution of long running outages
• Drive technical resolution of outages related to critical and escalated customers
• Preparation and driving of action plan to de-escalate situation related to Outages and RCAs
• Drive action plans to prevent recurring outages
• Take necessary steps to address the Global escalations.
• Drive internal initiatives or projects or reporting
• Outage duration analysis
• Support leadership team with outage and RCA related info specific to customers and regions

Tasks

• Validate action plans for long running outages and outages for critical / escalated customers
• Review Find & Fix guides and ensure it remains up to date
• Join bridge calls for long running and critical outages
• Facilitate Critical Incident Management lessons learnt meetings
• Participate in regular regional cadence
• Resolve critical incidents
• Ensure standardization of processes followed for outage handling
• Analyze customer and stakeholder feedback and define action plans
• Own continuous improvement framework for Availability Management and drive resolution of impediments by defining suitable countermeasures
• Presentation to senior management on incident trend, analysis and action plan 
• Coordination of international teams in global projects / crisis handling / de-escalation initiatives 
• The expectation is that the role does not only concentrate on Basis / application issues but can own incident resolution and RCA end-to-end and work together with other teams and functions to resolve incident

 What you bring: 

• 6-9 years of SAP Basis / HANA certification and experience
• Experience in a Senior position in the operational business
• Solid knowledge in IT and solution
• Experience in customer interaction
• Experience in working in a virtual set-up involving teams spread across globally
• Experience in decision making within own area of responsibility / project
• Expert level verbal and written English communication
• Experience of coordination across teams and lines of business to solve problems
• Experience with Service Now will be an added advantage

Education
Bachelor / Master Degree or equivalents in Business Administration, Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field

Professional Training & Certification
ITIL Foundation Certification, cloud operations / hyperscaler related certification, SAP Basis / NetWeaver / HANA certification.

MEET YOUR TEAM

Within the Product Engineering (PE) division, the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) Delivery Technical Operations team runs the HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) and is responsible for OS, DB & SAP Apps (such as S/4 HANA) operations and support for our customers across multiple infrastructures - SAP DCs, AWS, Azure & GCP. We are looking for an IT Technology Associate Consultant who will be responsible for Database support and services along with running SAP’s backend technology including operations of state-of-the-art datacenters as well as client technology around the

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Requisition ID: 398956  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.