SAP Solution Manager

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Our client is one of the world’s leading mechanical and plant engineering firms with extensive expertise in automation digitalization and energy efficiency. In preparation for the S/4 Hana migration one of the client strategical objectives for 2024 and 2025 is to outsource the SAP support functions to one managed service provider: SAP Application Management Support (AMS-2 ^nd Level inkl. customizing) SAP Basis SAP Solman and SAP Authorization. Knowledge to be taken over in a 4-month transition.

• Coordination and implementation of support packages (ABAP/ JAVA)
• Implementation of the basic configuration in the transaction SOLMAN_SETUP (“System Preparation” “Basic Configuration” and “Infrastructure Preparation”)
• Afterwork support packages installation (SolMan configuration upgrade)
• Cleaning up the System Management Landscape
• Checking and eliminating errors in EarlyWatch Alert reports (via SAP ME)
• Perform self-service session on the Solution Manager e.g.
  • SAP-Going-Live-Check (SELF_GV)
  • SAP Technical Performance Optimization (SELF_SL-L)
  • SAP Early Watch Health Check (EW_SELF)

Optional/ project support:

• Implementation of SLD content upgrade
• Afterwork support packages for JAVA
• Upgrade SMD agents
• Maintenance planner
• Installation of additional database client library
• Updating the technical monitoring contents

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Focused Build (Enhance and Innovate Pace) for Release and Deployment
• Early Watch and SAP 4 ME for Monitoring/ Alerting
• NET Weaver Cloud ALM ITIL Foundation
• Good communication and collaboration client facing p roactive self-starter

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• German B2/C1
• Previous transition experience
• Conigma for Change Management
• SAP Basis administration and support relevant experience for SAP ECC. Error analysis correction restart patches upgrade setup of jobs parameterization installation of support packages implementation of feature packages
• SAP Authorization/ Security experience