Align Technology is a global medical device company that pioneered the invisible orthodontics market with the introduction of the Invisalign system in 1999.  Today, we develop innovative, technology-rich products such as Invisalign aligner treatments, iTero™ intra-oral scanners, and OrthoCAD digital services to help dental professionals achieve the clinical results they expect and deliver effective, cutting-edge dental options to their patients.

The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the management of the SAP environment. The SAP Basis Administrator responsibilities include configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis as well as scheduling and executing the SAP transport system. The SAP Basis Administrator collaborates to resolve SAP transport and source code problems. The SAP Basis Administrator is responsible for the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of SAP systems. Additional areas include the evaluation and design of interfaces between SAP and external systems, maintenance of the SAP Data Dictionary and database objects, and manage the migration of SAP database and application configuration into production as well as analyze, develop, and maintain data architectures and process models within SAP.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES   

• Ensure systems uptime
• Maintain existing SAP Business One system and all associated add-ons, implement new add-ons
• Implement, upgrade and enhance cost-effective fault-tolerant database infrastructure
• Analyze system performance.  Establish and uphold performance metrics for the system as whole and key business applications in particular.
• Work closely with software vendors to ensure continual support of systems.  Oversee system projects by working with internal business units and consultants.
• Develop custom reports and subsystems to assist employees in managing their workflow and business process.  Support software projects involving the database infrastructure which this person supports.
• Evaluate and select database/data warehouse components, including hardware, relational database management systems, ETL software, metadata management tools, and database design solutions.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on BI products, services, and standards in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Direct, organize, and lead projects in the implementation and use of new BI software tools and systems.
• Lead the integration efforts for merging BI platforms with enterprise systems and applications.
• Design, code, test, and document all new or modified BI systems, applications, and programs.
• Implement and maintain the multiple SAP instances that comprise the SAP environment (development, test, training and production).
• Maintain the integrity of the SAP environment by managing the SAP Correction and Transport System (CTS) to ensure all configuration and development objects are promoted properly.
• Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance of each SAP instance.
• Design and implement an optimal SAP configuration to maximize system performance and availability.
• Install and configure all required SAP database servers and application servers.
• Manage SAP users, authorizations, and profiles.
• Distribute the online SAP user workload and monitor and manage the SAP background job workload.
• Configure and manage the SAP printing subsystem for all SAP instances.
• Maintain SAP performance by planning and executing SAP tuning strategies.
• Monitor all SAP systems (work processes, users, system logs, short dumps, locks, developer traces, system traces, disk space, etc.).
• Administer the SAP database with Database Administrator (plan and perform database upgrades, apply database maintenance, design and maintain physical database layout, perform database reorganizations, design and implement backup and restore strategy, maintain database security, administer database performance, manage database storage, database problem determination and resolution, etc.).
• Perform SAP client administration (create client, copy client, delete client, export/import client) as required.
• Participate in the planning and implementation of SAP system upgrades.
• Apply and migrate SAP maintenance (hot packages and kernel upgrades) through all systems using a structured methodology.
• Develop and maintain system documentation for all SAP instances and interfaces.
• Provide status reports for projects to management.

Additional responsibilities:

• Ensures the effective fulfillment of objectives and deadlines assigned to the group.
• Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.
• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Other duties may be assigned.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• BA degree in a design-related field. 
• Solid background in SAP Basis, Microsoft SQL, adhoc SQL queries,
• 6-9 years of experience as SAP administrator
• Solid experience in SQL (2005, 2008 & 2012)
• Solid background in Windows server administration
• Experience with tier-one applications, databases, and data warehouses

WORK SCHEDULE / HOURS

Regular business hours and after hours support when needed.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.