Senior IT Analyst SAP Basis Administrator

Caterpillar · Bengaluru

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Career Area:

Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Purpose:


Your Work Shapes the World. Whether it be groundbreaking products, best in class solutions or creating a lifelong career, you can do the work that matters at Caterpillar. With a 95-year legacy of quality and innovation and 150 locations in countries around the world, your impact spans the globe.

When you join Caterpillar, you are joining a team of makers, innovators, and doers. We are the people who roll up our sleeves and do the work to build a better world. We don’t just talk about progress and innovation. We make it happen. And we are proud of that because it helps our customers build and power the world we live in – the roads, hospitals, homes and infrastructure. Without a dedicated workforce Caterpillar could not effectively meet our customer’s needs. Join us. 


Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Analyst Applications (SAP Basis Administrator) to join our Design Eng Processes team - CAT IT Division.


The preference for this role is to be based out of Bangalore – Caterpillar PSN 


This position requires candidate to work a 5-day -a -week schedule.


Shift Timing: 01:00-10:00PM IST


The Senior SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the administration, maintenance, optimization, and strategic support of enterprise SAP environments. This role ensures SAP systems are secure, highly available, scalable, and compliant while supporting upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and cloud transformation initiatives. The position collaborates closely with Infrastructure, Security, Development, Middleware, Database, and Functional teams to deliver reliable SAP services. This is a critical role that helps ensure our end users experience a well-equipped, efficient, and simple support touchpoint. Further, this role owns the Continuous Improvement journey for the department, with programs that improve automation, monitoring, and analytic capabilities.


Job Duties:

What You Will Have:


Top candidates will also have:

Additional Duties
Perform other related duties as assigned to support organizational objectives.


Education / Experience: Requires a relevant computer science master’s or graduate degree and 9-plus years of progressively complex Information Services experience, including enterprise application architecture, development, support, and modernization. Requires a general understanding of business operations, including one or more of the following: general business processes, technical infrastructure, application development and support of major projects, and engineering functional applications. The incumbent must have the ability to provide strategic direction for application and technology roadmaps, including 2–5-year plans for Information Services. Requires the ability to work with diversified departments, along with effective oral and written communication skills. The incumbent must have a strong customer focus and business knowledge.

Additional Info:

Skill Descriptors
Core Application Systems: Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:

Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive Experience:

Application Design, Architecture: Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Extensive Experience:

Implementation: Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end-users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
Level Working Knowledge:

Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Level Extensive Experience:

System and Technology Integration: Knowledge of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
Level Extensive Experience:

System Testing: Knowledge of system and software testing; ability to design, plan and execute system testing strategies and tactics to ensure the quality of software at all stages of the system life cycle.
Level Extensive Experience:

Technical Troubleshooting: Knowledge of technical troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, recognize, and resolve technical issues on hardware, software, application or operation.
Level Working Knowledge:

This position requires working onsite five days a week.Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

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