Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · Remote OK
Your Mission As Team Lead SAP Operations, you lead our New Zealand SAP Basis team from Auckland, combining your SAP Basis expertise with people leadership. Your team provides operational coverage of European customer SAP…
Skills: SAP Basis, S/4HANA, ECC, Linux, Windows Server
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · Remote OK
Your Mission As Team Lead SAP Operations, you lead our New Zealand SAP Basis team from Auckland, combining your SAP Basis expertise with people leadership. Your team provides operational coverage of European customer SAP…
Skills: SAP Basis, S/4HANA, ECC, Linux, Windows Server
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · Remote OK
Your Mission As Team Lead SAP Operations, you lead our New Zealand SAP Basis team from Auckland, combining your SAP Basis expertise with people leadership. Your team provides operational coverage of European customer SAP…
Skills: SAP Basis, S/4HANA, ECC, Linux, Windows Server
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · Remote OK
Your Mission As Team Lead SAP Operations, you lead our New Zealand SAP Basis team from Auckland, combining your SAP Basis expertise with people leadership. Your team provides operational coverage of European customer SAP…
Skills: SAP Basis, S/4HANA, ECC, Linux, Windows Server
Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand · Hybrid
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Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand · Hybrid
About the Role (your why) We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, having delivered many systems over…
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You will lead and contribute to SAP Basis operations while managing a team in Auckland to ensure stable, secure, and available customer systems. The role involves balancing hands-on technical work with team development, service improvement, and stakeholder communication.
Candidates must have several years of hands-on SAP Basis experience with S/4HANA or ECC and strong administration skills in database and server environments. You must possess an existing right to work in New Zealand, as visa sponsorship is not available.
Your Mission
As Team Lead SAP Operations, you lead our New Zealand SAP Basis team from Auckland, combining your SAP Basis expertise with people leadership. Your team provides operational coverage of European customer SAP landscapes during New Zealand daytime hours, weekends and public holidays, weekends and public holidays, keeping customer systems stable, secure and available around the clock in tight handover with our Swiss and German colleagues. Approximately 60% of the role is dedicated to hands-on technical work, with the remaining 40% focused on leadership, team development and service improvement. This is a remote role within New Zealand, with a preference for Auckland.
Your Responsibilities
Manage the day-to-day SAP Basis workload, including system monitoring, patching, transport management, user administration, system copies and ongoing platform maintenance.
Oversee OS-level administration and patching on Linux and Windows Server in an SAP context, including scripted automation of recurring tasks
Support backup, restore and certificate management activities across customer environment
Act as the technical escalation point for complex incidents, root-cause analysis and cross-system troubleshooting during NZ coverage hours
Lead, coach and develop a small, established SAP Basis team in Auckland, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture
Own recruitment, onboarding, certification planning and performance management for the NZ team
Coordinate the NZ on-call and shift schedule and ensure transparent communication with stakeholders Drive knowledge sharing and continuously improve operational documentation.
Act as the NZ team’s primary interface with the Country Manager NZ, Swiss and German leads, Service and Project Managers, and customer contacts
Ensure reliable service delivery through disciplined resource planning, prioritisation and adherence to SLAs and customer-specific contracts
Improve operational processes including handovers, ticket handling and runbooks. Balance customer needs, service quality and commercial outcomes in day-to-day decisions
Contribute to the long-term stability, security and evolution of customer SAP landscapes, and to the growth of the NZ delivery capability
You achieve this through
Several years of hands-on SAP Basis experience across S/4HANA and/or ECC
Strong administration skills in various database technologies and solid Linux and Windows Server administration skills, with comfort in shell and/or PowerShell scripting for automation
Practical experience with enterprise backup tooling, SAP monitoring (SAP Solution Manager and/or Focused Run) and ticketing platforms (ServiceNow or similar)
Ideally proven leadership experience in a technical operations, SAP consulting or managed services environment. We also welcome experienced SAP Basis Consultants who are ready to take their first step into a leadership role with a well-defined leadership approach and a clear vision for developing and empowering technical teams
Strong organisational, communication and decision-making skills, with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset and a customer- and commercially aware outlook
Relevant SAP certifications (SAP Certified Technology Associate or Professional, or S/4HANA System Administration) advantageous
Professional communication skills in English
Note for applicants: You need to have an existing right to work in New Zealand. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Business Technology Engineers
SAP Basis Dienstleistungen aus der Schweiz Sie sind in Ihrem Unternehmen verantwortlich für die technische Betreuung der SAP Landschaft und stehen vor einer Herausforderung, die Sie gerne in die Hände von SAP Basis Experten legen möchten? Von der technischen Realisierung von SAP HANA Anwendungsszenarien über SAP Outsourcing bis hin zu SAP Migrations- und Upgrade-Projekten – unser kompetentes und zertifiziertes SAP Basis Team unterstützt Sie dabei. Mit weit mehr als 250 erfolgreich abgeschlossenen SAP Basis Projekten, vierzehn SAP Technology Consultants und über 60 Zertifikaten zählt die itesys zu den grössten und erfahrensten SAP Basis Dienstleistern in der Schweiz. Zu unseren Kunden gehören sowohl national als auch international tätige Unternehmen sämtlicher Grössen und Branchen. Sprechen Sie uns an und wir zeigen Ihnen mögliche Wege, wie wir Ihre IT-Organisation im Bereich SAP Basis Betrieb und Administration voranbringen und sich Ihre Projekte effizient umsetzen lassen.
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