Sr. IT SAP Systems Engineer

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About Us: 

TreeHouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values—Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain: 

• Competitive compensation and benefits program with no waiting period – you’re eligible from your first day!

• 401(k) program with 5% employer match and 100% vesting as soon as you enroll.

• Comprehensive paid time off opportunities, including immediate access to four weeks of vacation, five sick days, parental leave and 11 company holidays (including two floating holidays).

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your accelerated career growth, plus paid training, tuition reimbursement and a robust educational platform – DevelopU – with more than 10,000 free courses to support you along the way.

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of professionals. Take advantage of opportunities to build on our team-oriented culture, such as joining one of our Employee Resource Groups.

• Access to our wellness and employee assistance programs.

Job Description:

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior SAP Systems Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on SAP Basis experience to provide technical leadership and operational support for a complex enterprise SAP landscape. The role will be responsible for the availability, performance, stability, security, and technical lifecycle management of the SAP technology platform.

The position requires a strong technical professional who can independently manage day-to-day SAP Basis operations while also leading SAP upgrades, patching, performance optimization, security remediation, system refreshes, disaster recovery activities, and cloud initiatives. The successful candidate will work closely with SAP Functional, Security, Infrastructure, Network, and external SAP managed service teams to resolve complex technical issues and deliver SAP projects. As an additional responsibility, this position will administer and coordinate the SAP Change Advisory Board (CAB) process, supporting SAP change reviews, approvals, documentation, and change management compliance.

This is a hybrid position, requiring a combination of on-site and remote work. The candidate should be comfortable working in a collaborative enterprise environment, providing production support, participating in maintenance activities, coordinating SAP changes, and serving as a senior technical escalation point for critical SAP issues.

You’ll add value to this role by performing various functions including, but not limited to:

SAP Basis Administration

• Perform senior-level SAP Basis administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Plan and execute SAP upgrades, support packs, kernel upgrades, enhancement packages, and security patching.
• Analyze SAP EarlyWatch Alert (EWA) reports and proactively address performance, stability, capacity, and security recommendations.
• Monitor and respond to SAP Hot News, Security Notes, and SAP Security Patch Day recommendations.
• Perform SAP installations, system copies, client copies, system refreshes, and transport management across DEV/QA/PROD.
• Administer SAP HANA databases, including monitoring, backup/recovery, memory management, performance tuning, and upgrades.
• Administer and support OpenText SAP Archiving, including archive objects, archive sessions, repository configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and integration with SAP.
• Support SAP BTP, including subaccounts, entitlements, connectivity, Cloud Connector, and integration services.
• Configure and maintain SAP Fiori Launchpad, catalogs, and technical components across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Support SLT replication, SAP PO/PI interfaces, adapters, and message monitoring.
• Support SAP Data Services, BOBJ, MII, and SCM technical operations.
• Collaborate with SAP Functional, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Database, and Cloud teams.
• Coordinate with external SAP managed service providers and vendors to resolve technical issues and deliver SAP services.
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and system support documentation.
• Provide on-call and escalation support for critical production incidents.

SAP Change Advisory Board (CAB) Administration – Additional Responsibility

• Administer and coordinate the SAP Change Advisory Board (CAB) process, including reviewing SAP change requests for completeness, risk/impact, testing, validation, rollback plans, and required approvals.
• Coordinate SAP CAB meetings and approvals with relevant SAP teams and stakeholders.
• Track SAP changes through approval, implementation, validation, and closure. Maintain CAB documentation and audit evidence and ensure adherence to established SAP change management procedures.

Important Details:  

• This role is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our corporate office in Oak Brook, IL.
• The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $100,800 – 151,200 USD annually. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics and business or organizational needs. For certain roles, the successful candidate may be eligible for annual discretionary merit compensation award, bonus and equity pay.  

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on SAP Basis administration experience in enterprise hybrid cloud and on-premise SAP landscapes, including SAP S/4HANA upgrades and conversions.
• Experience leading complex SAP technical projects and supporting production environments, including coordination with SAP RISE managed service teams and vendors.
• Experience with SAP platforms, including SAP ECC, S/4HANA, CFIN, SCM, MII, SLT, SAP PO/PI, Fiori/Fiori Launchpad, SAP Data Services (BODS), BusinessObjects (BOBJ), SAP BTP, Fiori Cloud, Cloud Connector, Ariba Integration, SAP Cloud ALM, and SAP Solution Manager.
• Experience administering OpenText SAP Archiving, Document Management, and Content Server/Archive Server, including SAP integration.
• Experience administering an SAP Change Advisory Board (CAB) process and coordinating SAP changes across teams and stakeholders, with a strong understanding of ITIL-aligned incidents, problems, and change management, including risk/impact assessment, approvals, scheduling, implementation, validation, and closure, using ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms.
• Knowledge of HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server databases, Linux/Unix and Windows Server administration, and scripting/automation using Shell, Python, or SAP-native tools.
• SAP certifications such as SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP HANA, SAP BTP, SAP S/4HANA Conversion & Upgrade, SAP RISE, SAP Cloud ALM, or SAP Solution Manager.
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to facilitate CAB meetings and coordinate SAP teams.

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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact [email protected]

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