Client: Financial Industry
Position: SAP Basis Consultant
Location: Montreal, QC
Duration: 12 months
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced SAP Basis Consultant to support the migration, installation, and eventual maintenance of our SAP S/4HANA environment. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with SAP infrastructure across the full system lifecycle — from installations and system migrations to day-to-day basis operations — and is comfortable operating in a complex, highly regulated financial services environment.
Core Responsibilities
- S/4HANA Migration & Implementation
- Support end-to-end migration to SAP S/4HANA
- Perform installation, configuration, and landscape management of SAP S/4HANA systems in accordance with SAP-endorsed architectures
- Manage transport management systems (TMS), system copies, client copies, and refreshes across Dev/QA/Prod landscapes
- Coordinate with SAP and cloud infrastructure teams on sizing, OS/DB configuration, and high availability / disaster recovery setup
- Work with SAP S/4HANA APIs to support integration design and connectivity
SAP Basis Administration & Support
- Provide ongoing Basis support for the following SAP environments:
- SAP ECC (legacy landscape maintenance and co-existence)
- SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
- Fixed Assets (FI-AA) and Accounts Payable (FI-AP) modules within the Financial Accounting (FI) landscape
- Perform system monitoring, performance tuning, patch management, and kernel upgrades
- Manage user administration, roles, authorizations, and SNC/SSO configurations
- Landscape & Release Management
- Manage SAP system landscapes across multiple environments, ensuring stability and compliance with change management policies
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of SAP Basis administration experience
- Proven hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA installation, system conversion, and migration
- Strong working knowledge of SAP Basis administration
- Experience supporting SAP ECC, SAP BPC, FI-AA (Fixed Assets), and FI-AP (Accounts Payable) environments
- Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA architecture, tooling, and API landscape
- Knowledge of SAP HANA database administration (backup/recovery, system replication, performance)
- Experience with high availability and DR configurations
- Strong understanding of OS-level administration (Linux/Unix) and virtualization
- Strong understanding of DB2 Database Management
- Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Background in ABAP development — ability to read, debug, and write ABAP code to support Basis-related troubleshooting and transport resolution
- Experience with ETL processes and data pipeline design, particularly in the context of SAP data extraction
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake and supporting data migration from SAP to Snowflake, including schema mapping, delta loads, and data validation
- Familiarity with SAP integration patterns and API consumption
- Experience in financial services or capital markets environments (regulatory compliance, audit trails, SOX controls)
- SAP certifications in Basis / Technology (e.g., C_TADM_23, C_HANADEV, or equivalent)
