IT Technology Services Senior Specialist

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

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:

• 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.

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.  

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 395355  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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