SAP Basis Administrator IV

Essential Utilities, Inc. delivers safe, clean, reliable services that improve quality of life for individuals, families, and entire communities.

Operating as the Aqua (water and wastewater services) and the Peoples and Delta (natural gas) brands, Essential serves approximately 5.5 million people across 10 states. We are committed to sustainable growth, operational excellence, a superior customer experience, and premier employer status - including a competitive and comprehensive benefits package as well as a commitment to career growth opportunities.

We are advocates for the communities we serve and are dedicated stewards of natural lands, protecting more than 7,600 acres of forests and other habitats throughout our footprint.

Our company is one of the most significant publicly traded water, wastewater service and natural gas providers in the U.S.

Essential Utilities, Inc., has a SAP Basis Administrator IV position in Pittsburgh, PA. 1. Collaborate with business users, Project Management Office (PMO), and IT Applications teams to determine SAP technology requirements. Recommend and design solutions consistent with industry best practices and regulatory compliance requirements. 2. Provide technical guidance and expertise to other Basis Administrators, Applications analysts, Infrastructure engineers, Security analysts, contractors, and service providers to ensure SAP landscape is configured consistent with Essential's standards and SAP best practices. 3. Develop and execute comprehensive installation, upgrade, and maintenance plans for all SAP technologies. 4. Provide technical support on a 24/7 basis; debug and resolve complex problems spanning multiple technology platforms. 5. Recommend modifications or innovative enhancements to existing systems to satisfy specialized needs and configurations. 6. Perform HANA and SQL database administration, including database creation, standby system configuration, monitoring, performance management, and backup/recovery. 7. Provide capacity planning for the effective use of current systems and plan for growth of the corporation. 8. Lead disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution of the plan when warranted in a real time/life situation and by way of annual testing. 9. Plan, install, configure, and support interfaces to third party technologies such as RunMyJobs, Service Suite, PowerPlan, Blackline, OpenText, SAP Analytics Cloud, Adobe Forms and other systems as required. 10. Follow security design and operational best practices to ensure the SAP landscape is operated and maintained in a secure manner. 11. Lead the development and delivery of architectural, configuration, and process documentation that clearly and concisely captures the key components of a solution. 12. Provide expertise and knowledge of emerging technologies and assist in determining possible application to the business. 13. Provide leadership to architecture working groups that includes architects and engineers from various technical areas.

Computer-related bachelor's degree and ten years of SAP Basis software engineering required. Some experience with ABAP stack, Java stack administration, SAP application upgrades and conversions, SAP OS/DB and hardware migrations, SAP HR SP upgrades and CUA required.

Essential Utilities, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Equal employment opportunity is provided to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions, including medical conditions related to lactation), physical or mental disability, covered-veteran status, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal law.
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To maintain the integrity of the recruitment process and to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest due to employment and/or assignment of family members and personal referrals, specific guidelines apply to the hiring and assignment of these individuals including, but not limited to:

• Family members cannot result in a supervisor/subordinate reporting relationship
• Family members cannot work in the same department.