**Introduction** Joining the IBM Technology Expert Labs teams means you'll have a career delivering world-class services for our clients. As the ultimate expert in IBM products, you'll bring together all the necessary technology and services to help customers solve their most challenging problems. Working in IBM Technology Expert Labs means accelerating the time to value confidently and ensuring speed and insight while our clients focus on what they do best—running and growing their business. Excellent onboarding and industry-leading learning culture will set you up for a positive impact, while advancing your career. Our culture is collaborative and experiential. As part of a team, you will be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators—always willing to help and be helped—as you apply passion to work that will positively impact the world around us. **Your role and responsibilities** As SAP HANA Database Consultant, you are responsible to installation, configuration, maintenance, and performance tuning of SAP HANA database systems and migrate from one platform to another platform. Design backup and recovery strategies for clients. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Global Delivery Center #GDC you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges. **Required technical and professional expertise** * SAP OS/DB Migration Certified and Experience in Migrating Database to HANA * Experience in using SAP Tools DISTMON/MigMon/SAPINST * System Copy (Homogeneous and Heterogeneous) for Dual Stack/Single Stack(Java/ABAP) * SAP Unicode Conversion Experience (Single code/MDMP/Ambiguous Blended Code Page) * Full Life Cycle Implementations of SAP on Oracle/DB2, Experience on Hardware Sizing, SAP Services and Database Clustering and DR Setup * Experience of Implementation and troubleshooting in SAP Components R/3, ECC, BW/BI, SCM, SRM, CRM, Content Server, BOBJ, Solman, XI, EP, SLD * SAP Version Upgrade and Enhancement Pack Implementations * Advanced skills in Oracle 9i,10g and 11g design, administration, troubleshooting, SAP Oracle Upgrade, SAP Oracle Administration through Brtools, Oracle Data Guard Configuration and Oracle RMAN knowledge * Design, develop and execute strategy for Implementation of large and complex SAP related solutions in Cluster, non cluster, RAC and Non RAC environments * Performance tuning on SAP, Database and Unix platforms * SAP Solution Manager Setup and Configuration * Perform investigative troubleshooting for complex, large & critical client setups * Excellent communication and presentation skills that are engaging, compelling, and influential. * Minimum of 8-16 years of proven relevant SME experience in supporting similar engagements. Prior experience in complex systems integration projects will be preferable. * SAP Certification for Cross Platform migration is MUST. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Prior experience in complex systems integration projects will be preferable. * Should have experience of supporting HANA environments for large clients * Create optimized strategy and earn customers confidence for migration of SAP stack from NON-IBM environment to IBM environment or IBM to IBM environments, execute the strategized plan with or without other team members * Build / execute / Support the DR Solutions (near DR and DR sites), Zero Data Loss (ZDL) solutions by studying client RPO / RTO objectives, workloads. Take up the assignment for estimating Bandwidth requirement for DR solutions. * Undertake complex Architecture and Design work for projects which involves providing inputs to Storage and Server teams for achieving optimal performance. * Take up short term assignments of application and database tuning for influencing immediate business outcomes. . * Backup solution design and implementation using Oracle RMAN, shell scripts, storage management solutions.