Specialist: SAP Basis at Transnet

Position Purpose

• Provide basis technical Sap System support and/or advise as well as effecting the continuous improvement development and upgrading of Sap systems and delivery channels, including SAP FI/ CO, SAP Logistic, Sap Portal,SRM,BI,BO,SOLMAN,MIL,CRM,PI,PPM and PI.
• Provide technical leadership, support and guidance to junior personnel by ensuring skills and knowledge.

Position Outputs

• To provide technical leadership, support and guidance to junior personnel
• To ensure skills growth and knowledge sharing, to meet the organizational objectives.
• To provide expert troubleshooting and fault finding as part of escalation process on problems that cannot be resolved by the junior teams
• Assist and support the team in identifying and implementing methods which increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provides support to the team in areas such as project execution, design and job estimation.
• Promotes effective communications and working relations within the team, with our customers and with other support services.
• Ensures the development of the team members to improve customer service and reduce the risk exposure of the organization to unforeseen departures.
• To perform system performance monitoring and tuning, capacity management, upgrades, patching, and technology level updates
• To maintain system availability, compliance and security according to the relevant best practices and SLAs
• Ensures effective security, operation and peak performance of SAP environments
• Maintaining the SAP infrastructure, including installations of SAP and database upgrades
• Administering the SAP landscape, maintaining an error free operating environment
• Assisting SAP developers with development activities, problems and questions
• Design and Modify the SAP architecture to accommodate changing hardware, software and workload
• Manage the Basis team in areas such as, development of customer support processes, technical planning and work coordination
• Manage Basis support projects including scheduling the work, ensuring availability of resources and ensures the quality of the deliverables.
• Provides input and assistance to other IT projects.
• To provide technical leadership, planning, design, 2nd, and 3rd line support in the applicable technology

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 3 Years National Diploma in ICT related qualification. Minimum of 5 years’ experience in ICT environment SAP BASIS of which at least 1 year in a Supervisory or Specialist role. OR Minimum of 6 years’ experience in ICT environment SAP BASIS of which at least 2 years in a Supervisory or Specialist role

Competencies

• Customer Orientated
• Relationship Management
• Business Performance and Delivery
• Personal Mastery

Equity Statement

• Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Organisation/Operating Division.

The closing date is on 06/03/2026