Senior SAP Basis Engineer(For independent contractors)

(Senior) SAP Basis Engineer, FinTech - Financial Systems

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

We’re a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform – whenever and however it’s convenient for them.

Our brand new FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travellers and partners.

The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department and is responsible for SAP, HANA, and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes, and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.

We run our SAP environment on HANA and in February 2016 we migrated to Simple Finance. In 2019 we started our journey to S4 HANA with Central Finance.

Role Overview

As a (Senior) SAP Engineer you design, implement, maintain and troubleshoot scalable SAP and non SAP infrastructure solutions. He drives constant innovation and steers the Financial Systems group toward solutions that provide efficiency in daily operations, standardize solutions across the enterprise, support, maintain and develop complex technical solutions in a large and geographically distributed office environment.

Key Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Combine your knowledge and expertise with the goals of our business to support and maintain a world-class solutions infrastructure and to enable our continued growth;

  
  

• Facilitate technical discussions and decision making in order to ensure performance, scalability and reliability of the provided solutions;

  
  

• Be responsible for configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis;

  
  

• Plan, prepare, install, upgrade, and maintain complex of SAP systems;

  
  

• Have a strong risk awareness, allowing to innovate while ensuring protection and risk avoidance for the systems, working with multiple frameworks (SOx, NIST, DORA, etc);

  
  

• Evaluate and design interfaces between SAP and external systems, manage the migration/upgrades of SAP databases;

  
  

• Design, implement and troubleshoot the full stack (hardware, storage, operating system, system setup) that supports our systems and some non-SAP solutions (mainly) gravitating around our ERP;

  
  

• Be part of the Finance technical team that interfaces on a daily basis with other departments and works with system users to define their needs, identify problems, evaluate, advise and provide solutions;

Role Qualifications & Requirements

• SAP Basis administration work, with experience in upgrades/ migrations and SAP HANA administration;

  
  

• Good knowledge of the NetWeaver technology stack;

  
  

• Hands-on SAP administration experience from initial planning to final delivery (standard administration tasks, system copies, upgrades, migrations);

  
  

• Good conceptual knowledge of databases;

  
  

• Hands-on experience with HANA and/or other DBMSes;

  
  

• Good conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux, IP Networking

  
  

• Good development skills (preference to Bash, Python, ABAP).

  
  

• Good conceptual knowledge of Storage, web applications (FIORI), Single Sign On on SAP platforms;

  
  

• A great customer focus, team player attitude and excellent communication skills in English.