Senior IT Architecture Specialist / DB & SAP Architect

SAP

SAP

IT
Timișoara, Romania
Posted on Aug 4, 2025

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What you`ll do:

Summary:

We are looking for a technical and experienced Senior IT Architecture Specialist / DB & SAP Architect with several years of administration experience in HANA and ASE on public clouds. You need to be able to run technical PoCs, engineer and create new services especially on Backup and Restore of different databases like HANA and Sybase.

You will have a chance to directly shape and contribute to the overall Enterprise Cloud Services strategy.

The Role:

As IT Architecture Senior Specialist / DB & SAP Architect your role will be to support the team from a technical expert perspective. Driving the topic of system and database backup in a critical organization wide project, creating, testing and implementing technical blueprints and helping to drive the rollout as well. You will work on a technical level and mainly focus on developing the new ECS backup service.

Due to the complex nature of the ECS environment we have many dependencies and it is expected that you are able to perform hands-on tasks and are able execute technical engineering exercises.

Due to the central nature of the team you will have many touchpoints and good collaboration skills are required as you will be a key contributor in nurturing the technological progress in ECS.

What you bring :

• Several years of administration experience in HANA and ASE

• Experience in SAP Applications running on SAP supported databases.

• Experience with different type of HANA implementation like, scale-out, HA and DR

• Strong knowledge and worked on Backup and Restore of different databases especially HANA and Sybase

• Should have extensive awareness of complex backup architecture.

• Experience in different type of backup mechanism like snapshot, backint in HANA, file dump, etc is must

• Experience in DB encryption

• Experience in DBs like MAXDB, DB2 and MSSQL are plus.

• Hands on experience in storage and backup in an Enterprise organization is plus

• Infrastructure knowledge on public cloud like, Azure, AWS and GCP is plus.

• Knowledge on different type of cloud storage in public cloud is plus

• Experience in bash / python programming is huge plus.

• Strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge to adapt and learn quickly in a changing environment

• Highly structured and organized and excellent communication skills

• High ambition, drive and focus on results and execution

Meet your team:

As part of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services the ECS CAE Business Continuity Architecture team is responsible for creating, consolidating and driving the ECS architecture roadmap across various teams under consideration of the overall SAP business target. The team covers activities ranging from Pre-Sales support, Service Portfolio Management, evaluation of new solutions and technologies as candidates for future ECS deployments, engineering of new services and definition of architecture standards.

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Requisition ID: 432427 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.