HANA Specialist - Database Competence Center, HANA & Persistency

HANA Specialist - Database Competence Center, HANA & Persistency

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What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

The HANA & Persistency Development organization is responsible for building and delivering SAP’s Database and Data Management solutions that bring out the best of every business. Key product offerings of this organization are SAP HANA, SAP HANA Cloud and the SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake.

Part of the HANA & Persistency Development organization, the Database Competence Center plays a vital role in driving customer success and adoption of our product portfolio. We engage directly with customers, lines of business, partners and other internal stakeholders, providing them with advanced technical support and a link to Development and Product Management teams.

We are seeking a HANA Specialist with deep HANA knowledge and extensive customer management experience. This is a very technical, hands‑on position. You are going to be responsible for:

• Supporting customer and different SAP organizations with complex HANA projects, acting as a bridge to the development organization.
• Contributing to critical customer escalations, customer care programs and quality initiatives.
• Supporting the implementation of proof‑of‑concept projects at early product stages.
• Providing product feedback to the HANA Development team.
• Supporting the most complex and technically challenging HANA implementations.

• University degree or equivalent, preferably with a solid background in Computer Science, but Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics are also acceptable.
• Advanced knowledge in relational database technologies.
• Experience with HANA administration and performance optimization.
• Experience collecting and analyzing complex traces.
• Experience troubleshooting HANA issues. Great analytical thinking with versatile and innovative problem‑solving skills.
• Advanced communication skills for proper interaction with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Relationship and trust building skills.
• Experience with operations of large business applications/systems.
• Ability to learn autonomously and without guidance.

• Knowledge of HANA core development and modelling (Information Models, SQLScript, CDS Views etc.)
• Knowledge of SAP’s warehouse solutions (e.g. BW on HANA, native HANA EDW / data mart solutions) and/or knowledge of SAP’s suite solutions (e.g. Suite on HANA, S/4
  
  HANA)
• Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. ABAP, C++, Python, Unix shell etc.)
• Knowledge of Linux and enterprise computing solutions (high availability, file systems, computer networks etc.)
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts and services.

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience, preferably in customer‑facing roles.

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Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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