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Be part of a growing, successful company in an exciting and challenging field. Border States is 100% employee-owned, which means you're empowered to make decisions, find solutions and receive rewards for your hard work.
This position will be located in: Fargo , ND or Bismarck, ND or Charlotte, NC or Phoenix, AZ or Maple Grove, MN or Nashville, TN or Kansas City, MO or Remote work available
Provides leadership for the day-to-day operations of the IT SAP System Administration Team responsible for systems level management of BSE's SAP and Database Management Systems. Leads and supports company strategic projects and internal IT projects. Monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots the SAP technical environment and Database Management Systems. Develops and maintains technical documentation and disaster recovery procedures. Maintains SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to adhere to SAP Security best practices. Implements various SAP Products and Solutions which include installation, upgrades, migration, conversions/consolidation of systems to latest SAP technology and cloud-based platforms, requirement gathering, SAP & HANA sizing and maintenance of SAP landscape.
Essential Functions
- Provides daily technical leadership for the IT SAP System Administration Team with an emphasis on continued growth, maintenance, and operation of our SAP, database management, and middleware technologies
- Plans, analyzes, configures, monitors, tunes, and troubleshoots SAP systems, database management systems, SAP middleware systems
- Develops and maintains technical documentation, troubleshoots, resolves problems, monitors capacity and performance, and tests disaster recovery procedures
- Designs and converts SAP ECC systems by migrating to the latest SAP S/4 HANA products such as 1909 running on cloud platforms such as SAP HEC, AWS and Azure & deployment of SAP Fiori front-end server FES 6.0
- Integrates S/4 HANA with multiple legacy and SAP systems on-premise and cloud connectors-based APIs
- Responsible for successful delivery, ensuring quality and timely deliverables through the project cycle
- Designs complex SAP landscape, involving multiple New Dimension products.
- Sets up HA and DR (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) solutions on-premise and cloud environments such as SAP HEC, AWS and AZURE
- Completes SAP upgrades using SUM and migration to HANA using DMO and implements SAP ACTIVATE for S/4HANA
- Completes daily SAP administration in a very complex landscape, activity planning, refresh, system maintenance, system decommission, storage space utilization and management, patching, notes application, incident management, problem management and resolution
- Implements specialized solution manager capabilities namely, technical monitoring, ChaRM for transport and change management, Business Process Repository, Business Process Monitoring
- Responsible for project documentation and vendor coordination for technical design, solution and delivery
- Manages the complex SAP HANA landscapes with SAP HANA BIGDATA components such as SDA, SDI, SLT for real-time replications and migration of HANA 1.0 to 2.0 with MDC (Multi Data Container)
- Provides expertise in Database management for HANA and a non-HANA DB
- Works across ITIL and Project Life Cycle delivery landscapes, which includes but is not limited to agile applications development, support and deployment
- Focuses on building solutions and maintaining, optimizing and improving applications and systems
- Contributes to a business and technical blueprint and customizes the respective Software Package Core Module
- Leads and supports IT projects
- Analyzes, develops, and maintains SAP architectures.
- Manages and configures database management systems
- Manages technical changes that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance
- Supports complex environments consisting of Sandbox, Development, Test, QA, and Production systems
- Configures alerts; determines thresholds of alerts within monitoring systems as well as third party monitoring systems
- Resolves system problems and applies the appropriate course of action
- Manages incident tickets, including complex troubleshooting
- Helps to resolve complex issues, establish priorities, and makes decisions within guidelines, budgets and authority
- Assists with SAP Security to address authorization issues across all SAP systems and to best practices
Non-essential Functions
- Performs off-hours support as needed including month-end processes
- Provides 3rd level support for the IT Helpdesk
- Acts as a mentor to other members of the team
- Responsible for testing, end-user training and provide subject matter expert in SAP & HANA Technologies
- Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor or other designate
- Four-year degree in computer science, information systems, or management information systems or the equivalent in work experience.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience working in an enterprise IT environment and experience maintaining enterprise level systems.
- Experience with SAP administration Windows and/or Linux platforms.
- Experience designing and building high availability and disaster recovery systems preferred.
- Technical knowledge requirements: SAP systems, Microsoft SQL Server Administration, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), SAP HANA, EDI
- Requires the ability to read, write and speak in English.
- SAP Products Suites including SAP NetWeaver and SAP S/4HANA product family
- SAP Business Objects products including BOBJ and SAP DS
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2, SAP Focused Build, SAP Focused RUN
- SAP Implementation Tools: SWPM, SUM, Maintenance Planner, Quick Sizer
- Database Management Tools: HANA Studio, HANA LM, Cockpit, MSSQL Studio, ASE isql
- Cloud Technologies: SAP HEC, AWS, Azure
- Operating Systems: Windows, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux etc.
- Strong prioritization and problem solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication and reading skills
- Ability to effectively plan and organize.
- Strong collaboration skills.
- Excellent customer service skills include being competent, accurate, responsive and engaged.
Frequency at which you would carry/lift in a typical day:
Occasionally 0 - 33% Frequently34 - 66% Continuously: 67 - 100%
- Lift from Waist:
- < than 10 lbs. - Not at all
- 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all
- 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all
- 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all
- 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all
- 100+ lbs. - Not at all
- Lift from Floor:
- < than 10 lbs. - Frequently
- 10 to 25 lbs. - Occasionally
- 26 to 50 lbs. - Occasionally
- 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all
- 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all
- 100+ lbs. - Not at all
- Carried for Distance:
- < than 10 lbs. - Not at all
- 10 to 25 lbs. - Not at all
- 26 to 50 lbs. - Not at all
- 51 to 75 lbs. - Not at all
- 75 to 100 lbs. - Not at all
- 100+ lbs. - Not at all
Frequency at which you would do the following in a typical day:
- Sitting (a continuous period of being seated) - Continuously
- Standing (for sustained periods of time) - Frequently
- Walking (moving about on foot to accomplish tasks) - Frequently
- Bending/stooping (downward and forward) - Occasionally
- Crawling (moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet) - Not at all
- Climbing/Walking Stairs (ascending or descending) - Occasionally
- Reaching (extending arms in any direction) - Frequently
- Crouching/squatting (bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine) - Occasionally
- Kneeling (bending legs at knee to come to rest on knee(s)) - Occasionally
- Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling) - Occasionally
- Repetitive motion (substantial movement (motions) or the wrists, hands, and/or fingers) - Continuously
- Pivoting (movement in any direction with one foot, keeping the other in contact with the floor) - Occasionally
- Pushing/Pulling (using upper extremities to press against or draw or tug) - Occasionally
- Grasping (Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm) - Continuously
- Fingering (picking, pinching, typing; working with primarily fingers and not whole hand) - Continuously
- Talking (expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word) - Continually
- Driving (the control and operation of a motor vehicle) - Occasionally
- Desk work (work usually performed at a desk) - Continuously
- Use of a computer - Continuously
- Use of a telephone - Occasionally
- Hearing (Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels) - Continuously
- Exposure (to adverse weather & temperature conditions) - Not at all
- Travel (travel needed to perform job duties) - Occasionally
This job description is a summary of the job duties and responsibilities and is not intended to cover all possible job duties and is subject to change at the employer's discretion. Employees must be able to perform the essential job duties and satisfy job requirements either with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Our History
Border States is a leader in the electrical supply distribution industry withover 120 locations in 31 states. Our employee-owners are second to none in delivering top-notch customer service and in demonstrating extra-ordinary people skills. We are one of the largest independent electrical distributors in the United States providing products and services to the construction, industrial and utility industries. Border States has a competitive benefit package and is a 100 percent employee-owned company. Employee-ownership is a significant part of our culture and our success stems from the dedication of our employee-owners. We practice open-book management and our employee-owners are empowered with clearly defined levels of authority to be innovative and decisive, allowing us to respond quickly to the needs of customers. Employee-owners understand their roles in the success of the company and care about customers' needs, which drives our focus on adding value to everything we do. We recognize that not all customers are the same and each has specific requirements. Our employee-owners understand these diverse needs and have the commitment, resourcefulness and flexibility to outperform all others.
Values
As a Border States employee-owner, you're responsible for living our mission, service philosophy and service standards.
Our Purpose
We believe unstoppable businesses shouldn't go it alone. We are owners - of relationships, of outcomes, of every moment these unstoppable businesses need to deliver.
Service Philosophy
We earn customer loyalty and confidence by caring about their needs and adding value to everything we do.
Service Standards
Border States employee-owners are competent, accurate, responsive, and engaged .
Your career
Join an experienced team at one of the largest electrical distributors in the United States. What are you waiting for?
Border States has a competitive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity
FSA & HSA
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Disability Benefits
401(k) Retirement Plan
Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Paid Holidays
Paid Volunteer Time
Personal Leave time and more!
Border States provides bonuses to their employee-owners upon the achievement of branch and company goals.
Equal Opportunity For All
It's not just the law.It's something we've believed in since our founding.We value the diversity of all of our employee-owners and will always be an equal opportunity employer.
Drug Free/Smoke Free workplace
EOE AA M/F/VET/DISABILITY