SAP Systems & Application Administrator

About BIA

BIA Group is active in the sales, rentals and after-sales services of equipment intended for public works, mines, quarries and transport. The Group operates in Europe, Africa and Asia and has more than 1700 enthusiastic employees.

Summary

The role is responsible for ensuring the availability, security and performance of the SAP application landscape, with a primary focus on SAP Basis administration. It involves managing SAP on-premises and cloud environments, coordinating transports and technical changes, supporting integrations, certificates and access services, and working with internal ICT teams and external SAP partners to resolve incidents and implement changes.

What will be your responsibilities?

1. SAP Basis Operations and Change Control

• Participate in release committee activities and plan SAP transports following approved release decisions.
• Deploy approved transports, including ad hoc emergency transports, and maintain traceability of technical changes.
• Perform SAP system opening and closing activities as per documented procedures.
• Implement SAP Basis-related OSS Notes and coordinate SAP Security Note implementation with the relevant support partner.
• Define SAP printers and align technical configuration with ICT and business requirements.

2. System Monitoring, Performance and Technical Support

• Monitor SAP system performance, investigate technical degradation and coordinate corrective actions by maintaining clear ownership, escalation and resolution tracking.
• Create and follow SAP RISE cases and other technical support tickets through the applicable service channels.
• Analyse SAP dumps and support root-cause identification and resolution.
• Maintain and monitor batch jobs, addressing failed or abnormal executions in coordination with application teams.
• Assist colleagues on infrastructure and networking topics affecting the application landscape.
• Manage technical subjects and dependencies between BIASAPS and ICT.
• Follow-up on downtimes to identify root cause and update monthly availability KPIs and analyse the results for management reporting.

3. Document and maintain system architecture

• Maintain and continuously improve the documentation of the SAP application landscape in SAP LeanIX.
• Ensure SAP applications, interfaces, dependencies, and relevant architecture information are accurately documented and kept up to date.
• Coordinate with SAP functional, technical, and business stakeholders to validate and enrich the information in LeanIX.
• Promote LeanIX as the central reference for SAP landscape transparency, supporting project impact analysis, architecture decisions, and transformation initiatives.

4. Security, Identity and Access Management

• Analyse relevant SAP Security Notes and coordinate their controlled implementation.
• Integrate SAP cloud solutions with SAP Identity Authentication Service (IAS) and the corporate identity provider.
• Configure IAS applications and groups for new solutions.
• Configure supported applications for automatic user provisioning and automatic access authorization.
• Support access requests, including SSH access evidence and backup processing where assigned.
• Support the yearly SAP access review exercise and maintain the required evidence.

5. Certificates, Connectivity and Platform Integration

• Administer application certificates, including wildcard certificate conversion and certificate renewal or replacement across relevant platforms.
• Update certificates on SAP Cloud Connectors, SAP systems, SAP cloud solutions, Web Dispatcher and sFTP services, as applicable.
• Coordinate the integration of new systems into the existing application landscape.
• Support technical integration with LeanIX, Signavio and SAP Cloud ALM.

6. Governance, Risk, Compliance and Audit

• Record SAP system downtime and maintain the supporting operational evidence.
• Gather and organize technical evidence for internal and external audits, including Deloitte audit requests.
• Perform or coordinate the annual allocation key exercise for business application licences.
• Conduct the internal SAP licence audit covering relevant cloud and on-premises business applications.

7. Documentation, Quality and Continuous Improvement

• Maintain technical procedures, work instructions, checklists, configuration records and evidence repositories.
• Apply established change, incident, security and access-management processes consistently.
• Identify recurring operational issues and propose preventive or corrective improvements.
• Ensure activities are documented in the designated document management and tracking platforms.

Who are we looking for?

• Degree in IT or a related field
• At least 3 years of relevant experience working with SAP cloud environments
• Good knowledge of SAP technologies
• Strong technical experience with enterprise cloud systems, ideally including SAP solutions and Microsoft technologies such as Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
• Fluency in English and French, both written and spoke

What’s in it for you?

• A permanent contract
• A competitive salary and an interesting package of extra-legal benefits
• A human sized company with international dimension, encouraging autonomy and team spirit
• Cooperate in a team with experienced and passionate colleagues within a success­fully growing family-owned com­pa­ny
• Benefit from a challenging career opportunity with an extensive training program
• In this challenging job you get the possibility to take initiative and further develop the function