SAP Basis & Security Lead

Al-Watania Information Systems

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Riyadh, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia on site Until 9/27/2026 10+ years exp First posted July 29, 2026 Last posted July 29, 2026
Job description
  • Directly manage, mentor, and task-assign the SAP Basis technical team.

 

  • Lead the administration, monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, ALM, Cloud Connector, etc.).

 

  • Technical Leadership for SAP Basis operations, establishing best practices, standards, and operational guidelines.

  • Design, plan, and execute SAP system upgrades, system refreshes, kernel updates, database migrations, and patch implementations (Support Packages/Stack).

 

  • Manage backup/recovery strategies, high availability (HA) setups, and Disaster Recovery (DR) drills.

 

  • Oversee SAP system security, user authorization concepts, transport management, and audit compliance protocols.

 

  • Manage day-to-day work for internal Basis engineers to ensure strict adherence to SLAs

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.

- 10+ years of SAP Basis experience with proven experience as SAP Basis Lead / Technical Lead.

- Strong hands-on experience with SAP landscapes (S/4HANA, ECC, BW, Solution Manager, SAP HANA).

- Expertise in SAP Basis administration, upgrades, migrations, system refreshes, kernel updates, and performance tuning.

- Strong knowledge of SAP Security, user authorization, roles, and audit compliance.

- Experience managing SAP Basis teams and ensuring SLA compliance.

- Experience with HA/DR, backup & recovery strategies.

- Good knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems.

- Strong leadership and communication skills.

About this role

Summary

Lead SAP Basis team, oversee system administration, security, and performance improvements.

Job title

SAP Basis & Security Lead

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

SAP Basissecuritysystem upgradesperformance tuningLinux/Windows

Preferred skills

team managementcommunicationdisaster recovery

Specializations

SAP Basissecuritysystem upgradesperformance tuningdisaster recovery
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Riyadh Saudi Arabia

On-site City