SAP Basis Engineer

Role Description

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. Through our products, partners and people, we can empower everyone to experience the world.

Our brand new FinTech business unit – with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai – develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travellers and partners.

The Financial Systems team provides technology expertise to the finance department and is responsible for SAP, HANA, and connected 3rd party systems at Booking.com. We want to change the way people work with SAP, by building a finance application platform that supports simplification of business processes, and empowers the finance community with better financial insights.

We run our SAP environment on HANA and in February 2016 we migrated to Simple Finance. In 2019 we started our journey to S/4HANA with Central Finance.

Role Overview

As a SAP Engineer, you design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot scalable SAP and non-SAP infrastructure solutions. You contribute to platform improvements while ensuring operational stability, risk awareness, and regulatory compliance. You collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to support secure, resilient, and high-performing SAP landscapes in a globally distributed environment.

Key Job Responsibilities & Duties

• Combine your knowledge and expertise with the goals of our business to support and maintain a world-class solutions infrastructure and to enable our continued growth;
• Facilitate technical discussions and decision-making to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of the provided solutions;
• Be responsible for configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment on an ongoing basis;
• Plan, prepare, install, upgrade, and maintain complex SAP system landscapes;
• Plan and implement the appropriate change control for systems subject to SOX compliance;
• Ensure adherence to regulatory and control frameworks including SOx, NIST, DORA and internal security standards, balancing innovation with risk mitigation and system protection;
• Evaluate and design interfaces between SAP and external systems, handle the migration/upgrades of SAP databases;
• Support technical enablement and integration of modern SAP ecosystem components including Cloud ALM, SAP BTP, RISE with SAP landscapes, SAP Focused Run and S/4HANA transformation initiatives;
• Contribute to automation and infrastructure-as-code principles (Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible) across SAP landscapes to reduce manual operational risk and improve deployment reliability;
• Design, implement and operate the full stack (hardware, storage, operating system, system setup) that supports our systems and some non-SAP solutions (mainly) gravitating around our ERP;
• Be part of the Finance technical team that interfaces daily with other groups and works with system users to define their needs, identify problems, evaluate, advise and provide solutions;

Role Qualifications & Requirements

• 4 - 7 years of experience in SAP Basis administration work, with experience in upgrades/ migrations and SAP HANA administration;
• Good knowledge of the NetWeaver technology stack;
• Hands-on SAP administration experience from initial planning to final delivery (standard administration tasks, system copies, upgrades, migrations);
• Good conceptual knowledge of databases;
• Hands-on experience with HANA and/or other DBMSes;
• Good conceptual knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux and IP networking;
• Good development skills (preference to Bash, Python, ABAP).
• Good conceptual knowledge of Storage, web applications (FIORI), Single Sign-On (SSO) on SAP platforms;
• Experience with Cloud ALM, SAP BTP, SAP Focused Run, and RISE with SAP landscapes is strongly preferred;
• Strong understanding of security architecture, encryption principles, audit requirements, and segregation of duties in regulated financial environments;
• A great customer focus, standout colleague attitude and superb communication skills in English.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit