Senior Associate -SAP Basis & Security Administrator

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per month 

 

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success.

 

Role Overview:

 

New York Life is seeking a skilled Basis and Security Administrator to manage and maintain our SAP systems, including S/4 HANA, Solution Manager, BOBJ, Fiori, GRC, and BTP. We are looking for a self-motivated individual to handle system installations, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. You will also provide recommendations on important infrastructure updates and manage integrations across various SAP systems.

 

The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud environments such as SAP RISE and        Hyperscaler. This role requires expertise in NetWeaver ABAP/Java administration, SAP HANA Basis, and certificate management. A solid understanding of system integration, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and multi-database container (MDC) configurations in HANA is essential. Additionally, the candidate should be proficient in SAP performance optimization, including enqueue analysis, SAP tuning strategies, and database partitioning. Experience with pre- and post-system copy procedures in complex, multi-application environments is highly desirable

 

What You’ll Do:

 

• Manage day-to-day support of SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BOBJ, Solution Manager, SAP BTP, GRC, and Fiori.
• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for SAP BASIS, providing guidance to the team and collaborating with cross-functional departments to develop solutions.
• Maintain the multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP cloud environment (development, QA, and production)
• Management of the SAP environment including configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis including the SAP transport management system.
• Collaborate to resolve SAP transport issues as well as schedule, monitor and manage background jobs.
• SAP software installation, SAP software/kernel upgrades, troubleshooting, configuring, monitoring, tuning, client copies, system refreshes, transport management, printer/spool administration, batch job administration, security administration, single sign-on, and SAP Service Marketplace/OSS Administration
• Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability, and performance of each SAP instance.
• Work with SAP to apply and migrate SAP Support packs and other software patching and upgrades.
• Work with SAP to Handle System refreshes, updating Basis configuration, including RFC connections and distribution Models.
• Troubleshoot application issues by collaborating with others at NYL (database/ network teams) as needed. Escalate issues to SAP when necessary.
• Manage SAP users, authorizations, and create profiles.
• Provide after-hours/on-call support for critical implementations/upgrades.
• Responsible for administering connectivity, usage analysis and security surrounding the Business Technology Platform (BTP) systems, services and tenants.
• Ensure the security and governance of SAP environments, including SAP S4, HANA, Fiori, GRC, Solution Manager, and ChaRM, through the establishment of best practices.
• Maintain SAP performance, execute tuning strategies, and manage system upgrades and enhancements, including kernel upgrades and support packages.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimizing SQL statements and database processes.
• Administer SAP HANA databases, ensuring operational security and system integrity, including database encryption.
• Maintain SAP system architecture documentation, including runbooks for infrastructure and networking components. 

 

What You’ll Bring:

 

Required Skills:

• Three to five years related work experience as Basis Admin with Security.
• Three to Five years of BASIS Administration experience in S/4 HANA, Solution Manager/ChaRM, BOBJ, Fiori, GRC, and BTP.
• Extensive BTP exposure
• Ability to Understand Business and IT Requirements in order to design solution architecture and usage of the various SAP systems including S/4, HANA, SuccessFactors and other industry best practice toolsets.
• Demonstrated experience in developing technical options and recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate with various teams and external stakeholders.

• Must communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to provide clear, concise communication to Management, Basis team members, and others.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting security issues.
• Excellent communications skills – both verbal and written.
• Ability to solve problems and troubleshoot complex technical issues.

 

 Preferred Skills:

• Familiar with Batch Job Scheduler (ESP Scheduler and Stone branch)

 

 

 

 

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $95,000-$162,500 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

 

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

 

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

 

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

 

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 90939