Dow Jones and Company seeks Principal Software Engineer, Finance Systems in Monmouth Junction, NJ.Manages all of SAP and related Infrastructure to ensure systems are running & performing well with the Infrastructure strategy aligned to Finance and business goals. In addition to routine maintenance, the position ensures operating systems, databases, and applications are upgraded on an ongoing basis to be on the latest supported versions Ensuring SAP and all other related infrastructure are maintained to meet SLA’s for performance, utilization, availability. Monitors and manages the infrastructure and systems during critical periods like month closing, quarterly closing, annual closing, peak periods like the budget season, etc. to ensure no disruptions to the availability of systems. Managing the in-house basis support team as well as the third-party managed service provider supporting the SAP infrastructure in AWS to ensure routine business as usual activities(backups, alerts management, patching, etc.) are performed to keep good health of systems. Coordinating and communicating with application teams and business stakeholders for scheduled maintenance downtimes. Coordinate and perform annual disaster recovery test for SAP systems. Manage cutover plans, resources and tasks for scheduled maintenance activities and system upgrades. Developing relationships and collaborating with Dow Jones applications teams, and ensuring roadmaps and resources are lined up and aligned. Managing the contractual arrangements with Dow Jones managed services partners for support of SAP systems and infrastructure. Ensuring respective constraints and dependencies for Dow Jones systems are well understood, communicated and managed. Troubleshooting and issue resolution to ensure the systems availability. Ensuring appropriate ways of working (plan, meetings, comms etc) are in place to support collaboration with Dow Jones application teams and business stakeholders. Develop and manage a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress of large initiatives like application upgrades. Provide status updates to management and stakeholders. Work closely with various technology teams like cloud engineering, Information security, architects, engineering teams and devOps team members for various Infrastructure related tasks. Lead and manage annual SAP application upgrades. Telecommuting permitted. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field. In addition to 8 years of experience in a related occupation. In addition, requires all of the below skills: •8 years of experience in SAP BASIS and Netweaver;•8 years of experience in Databases such as Oracle, HANA, SQL Server and Sybase;•8 years of experience in SAP BOBI & BODS; •5 years of experience in AWS •5 years of experience in Disaster Recover and High Availability.Requires AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional Certification$169,229 per year. Must also have authority to work permanently in the U.S. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply at jobpostingtoday.com Ref# 34892.