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Job Description
Company Description
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced SAP Basis Lead to join our Technology team here at Penguin. This role is offered on a permanent basis from our office in Embassy Gardens, London.
About the Role
This role will take responsibility for the oversight of our SAP technical environment, leading the team in configuring, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting the SAP technical environment successfully.
About the Team
The Technology team provides expertise and effective solutions to Penguin Random House. We integrate flexibility and agility which supports our consistent way of working. We set ourselves up for success by holding ourselves accountable and welcoming change. Each member of the Technology team brings skill and initiative to their role; we take personal ownership within a one team culture, working collaboratively to meet expectations from our stakeholders who trust us to deliver.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support the SAP Basis workstreams, including oversight of the offshore team, ensuring activity is aligned with our Technology Strategy, agreed standards, and best practice.
- Install, configure, and upgrade SAP HANA environments, including multi-tenant database containers, software revisions, and patches using tools such as HDBLCM.
- Maintain and optimize our SAP landscape, including ECC, BTP, GRC, IAS (Cloud Identity Services), Cloud ALM, and Signavio, ensuring strong system performance, availability, and stability.
- Monitor and troubleshoot SAP HANA and wider SAP environments, analyzing alerts, logs, traces, memory, and CPU usage using tools including SAP HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit.
- Manage backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery capabilities, including point-in-time recovery, system replication, failover mechanisms, and integration with external backup tools such as Backint.
- Apply your understanding of SAP HANA architecture and internals, including in-memory storage, memory management, persistence, and CPU resource allocation, to support effective performance and problem resolution.
- Work confidently within Linux environments, including file-system navigation, process management, and basic shell scripting, alongside strong SQL and database fundamentals.
- Manage SAP transports, client administration, and technical changes in line with PRH change-management processes, whilst planning and supporting system, database, and kernel upgrades.
- Work closely with infrastructure colleagues to ensure backup, recovery, and resilience approaches remain effective and aligned with best practice.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation across SAP instances, lead the resolution of complex technical issues, and provide clear status updates to management.
- Mentor and guide the Basis team, whilst providing on-call and out-of-hours go-live or upgrade support where required.
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What You’ll Bring
Essential Criteria
- Significant experience of SAP Basis support and project delivery, including installations, upgrades, and migrations.
- People management experience, with the ability to lead, support, and develop a technical team.
- Relevant experience of SAP BTP and Cloud ALM.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Must be based in the UK with full right to work.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working with Okta in an SAP environment.
- Experience of Automic or another job scheduling tool.
- Professional SAP Basis certification.
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Application Instructions
Please apply with your CV by 23:59 on Monday, 19th October 2026. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the advert may close at any time. We would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Salary
The salary for this opportunity is c.£70,000 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus a generous bonus scheme and benefits.
Hybrid Working
While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate, and celebrate with colleagues, we recognize that flexibility around where you work is just as important.
For this role, we expect that you will work from our head office in Embassy Gardens, London, a minimum of 2 days per week (Tuesday & Thursday) with additional days for team meetings, townhalls, etc., as required. There may also be occasional travel to our warehouse site in Frating, Colchester.
Additional Information
Responsible for processing the information provided in your application is the company specified in the job advertisement, with its registered office as indicated. The company processes your data for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 (1) b GDPR / Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG.
The retention period for your data is determined by the statutory time limits applicable in the respective country, beginning upon completion of the recruitment process.
You can contact the company’s Data Protection Officer at the above-mentioned postal address.
Further information on data protection and your rights can be found here.
Legal Entity: The Random House Group Limited
Compensation: up to GBP 70,000 - yearly
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