SAP Basis Architect

Job Description:

Join our ERP Operation and Integrations team in Copenhagen:
Define the Future of Our Hybrid Architecture.

Are you a SAP Basis Architect who can design a scalable landscape and cloud strategy, manage vendor governance, and still dive into the system to troubleshoot, all while driving our transition to a SIAM framework and SAP RISE operating model and Clean Core principles?

We are looking for an SAP Basis Architect in Copenhagen to lead our architectural structure, technical steering, and strategic design for our ERP landscape. As a technical anchor with deep, grounded expertise, you will steer our landscape, define our future operating model, co-own the technical roadmap with our SDM, and establish disciplined governance across our external partners, and drive our modernization strategy using SAP BTP and Fiori. 

What the job is …

As our SAP Basis Architect, you are the technical anchor for Satair's SAP platform. Success in this role means balancing daily operational control with our transition to SAP RISE and our journey towards a Clean Core. You will take a proactive approach to monitoring, performance optimization, and lifecycle management, ensuring our systems are always up to date and preventing issues before they impact the business. On a day-to-day basis, you will bring order to our global, 24/7 landscape by standardizing KPIs, service windows, and maintenance plans to safeguard overall platform runtime and system health. 

Your main responsibilities include:

• Strategic RISE & SIAM Operating Model: You will be our Basis Architect moving us away from a traditional hosting setup, to a model where we strictly steer our external partners. You will coordinate all our cloud environments, keeping our Dev, Test, and Prod systems synced and healthy via SAP for Me, ensuring we fully maximize SAP’s standard support model.
  
• Clean Core Optimization & Modernization (BTP & Fiori): You will drive the elimination of obsolete and deprecated ECC legacy transactions, steering the technical landscape toward modern SAP Fiori applications and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) extension capabilities (including modern RFQ apps, predictive analytics, and AI scenarios). You will define the technical strategy to phase out custom debt and legacy code to keep our core stable and agile.
  
• Roadmap Alignment & Budget Scoping: You will own the technical roadmap, partnering with our Service Delivery Manager to ensure key milestones, architecture reviews with cross-team dependencies are clearly reflected in Jira. You will participate in writing Architectural Requirement Dossiers (ARDs), deliver clear technical requirements and accurate estimates for key initiatives such as our upcoming S/4HANA upgrade, while constantly recommending health, modernization, and performance optimizations.
  
• Landscape Architecture & Operational Visibility: In this role, you will need to map out our end-to-end SAP landscape architecture to give us a clear blueprint for our journey to SAP RISE. From there, you will design a functional KPI tree that connects directly to this map, giving us true visibility into how technical system health impacts our daily business operations.
  
• Problem Solving & Escalation Support: You will provide expert SAP Basis insights during critical outages or complex Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) when needed. Your focus will be on helping the team understand the technical root issues and advising on the right fixes to permanently mitigate them and protect our system uptime.

How to succeed and add value in this role

• Creating Clear Visibility: You keep our technical roadmap transparent and map our landscape to simple KPI metrics, so colleagues and partners always know what’s happening and management can see how system health impacts operations.
  
• Ensuring a Predictable RISE Transition: Our move to SAP RISE happens without surprise cost overruns because you proactively keep our database growth, archiving strategy, and HANA memory footprint under control.
  
• Driving the Clean Core Evolution: You actively reduce system technical debt by guiding functional and technical teams away from obsolete T-codes and custom code, migrating them seamlessly to standard SAP Fiori and BTP innovations.
  
• Raising Technical Standards: You act as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team, helping colleagues understand the architectural impact of system changes while keeping our documentation and ARDs accurate.
  
• Keeping Partners Accountable: Our external providers deliver exactly what we need because you provide them with clear technical requirements and firmly steer their deliverables.
  
• Connecting Tech to Business: You easily translate complex infrastructure or security issues into plain language that management, security, and digital teams can actually understand.
  
• Preventing Recurring Issues: When major system issues pop up, you bring a calm approach, providing the right technical insights to help find the actual root cause so we implement permanent fixes instead of temporary patches.

Who you are

This role is defined by your architectural discipline, professional mindset, and ability to technically steer an advanced ecosystem. We are looking for a teammate who is:

• An Experienced SAP Architect: You have 8–10 years of SAP Basis and architecture experience, covering databases, platform stacks, and hybrid cloud setups. You have a degree in IT (or similar) and speak fluent English. You have strong technical expertise in managing SAP S/4HANA upgrades on RISE, system refreshes, SAP patch updates and other proactive patching strategies to maintain compliance and security.
  
• Self-Driven: You enjoy taking ownership of your space. We are looking for someone who feels comfortable handling the technical details independently, giving management the peace of mind that the platform is in safe hands.
  
• Ready to Define the New Standard: You know what a modern, best-practice SAP hybrid setup looks like. You can come in, show what the new standard is, and help us build it.
  
• Organized and Reliable: You take pride in delivering on your commitments and keeping things structured. You naturally lean toward good documentation because you know it's the best way to keep a complex system running smoothly.
  
• A Clear Communicator: You are comfortable translating complex infrastructure or technical issues into plain language, making it easy for non-technical teams to understand and stay aligned.

• An Adaptable Stakeholder Manager: You possess strong interpersonal skills and enjoy building relationships across departments. You can effectively guide functional owners, developers, and leadership through architecture modernizations without friction.

What does your next challenge look like?

At SATAIR, we believe in sustainable aviation that allows people to travel and connect across the globe.

We are on a mission to provide world class material solutions that keep aircraft flying and extend their lifespan.

In Satair, you can challenge the status quo, pioneer new ways of working, and generate real value for airlines and suppliers worldwide.

Being part of the Airbus family gives us the opportunity to live a global mindset, working in international and diverse teams and collaborating across functions, sites and cultures.

If you want to work as one team embracing a can-do attitude in a demanding environment, then we offer a great place to explore, learn, and grow, making an impact on aviation’s digital and sustainable transformation.

If you want to know more about our business, have a closer look at our website www.SATAIR.com or check out our SATAIR Youtube Channel at www.youtube.com/sataircompany !

Come on board and join us at Satair, an Airbus Services Company!

About SATAIR

Satair is an Airbus Services company offering first-class material management solutions in the aviation aftermarket industry. We take pride in delivering an excellent customer experience around the clock, driving innovation, and contributing to aviation’s digital and sustainable transformation. 

With our global functional organisation spanning 11 sites and locations worldwide, and a team of over 1,900 people supporting a $3.3 billion turnover, you will be part of a truly global company that continues to grow year after year.

Welcome to the Satair family!

If you want to know more about our business, have a closer look at our website www.SATAIR.com or check out our SATAIR Youtube Channel at www.youtube.com/sataircompany !

What do we offer at SATAIR?

At SATAIR, you will find much more than a job - we offer you the possibility of growing both your personal and professional capacities in a fun, supportive and informal working environment, where you will be encouraged to engage, share knowledge and ideas.

SATAIR is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We love to bring in people with different backgrounds and experiences as we believe it enhances our performance immensely! 

Here is a selection of some of the benefits we offer our employees in Copenhagen: 

• Competitive remuneration, including short term incentive bonus on all levels
• Work/life balance: hybrid working, flex time, maternity/paternity/parental leave, 29 days of holiday + senior and flex days
• Personal development: personalized development plans, large portfolio of learning solutions and many internal mobility opportunities, both locally and globally
• Health and well-being: Health insurance, in-house canteen with many healthy options

Come on board and join us at Satair, an Airbus Services Company

Please send us your application as soon as possible to get the opportunity to become part of an exceptional global team!

We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

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This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Satair A/S

Contract Type:

Permanent

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Digital

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