SAP Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to satisfy business outcomes and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, resiliency, maintainability).
• Lead and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure considerations.
• Ensure delivered solutions are operationally supportable and assimilated into production support models with limited risk.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through design enhancements, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
• Review and approve project designs for compliance with architecture standards, and track/manage exceptions as needed.
• Assess, report, and recommend mitigations for technology, integration, and operational risks within the SAP domain and adjacent platforms.
• Ensure regulatory, audit, and security compliance for new and existing solutions.
• Contribute to and evolve architecture patterns and standards (integration patterns, security patterns, data patterns, environment strategy, and operational readiness criteria).
• Translate solution intent into integrated designs across SAP, integration middleware, data platforms, identity/security, and external systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with product owners, engineering leads, security, infrastructure, and operations to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and constraints.
• Work with vendors and system integrators for service delivery, solution quality, and evaluation of technology options.
• Contribute to domain roadmaps and input into broader technology roadmaps, ensuring SAP solutions align with architectural direction and IT strategy.
• Help improve overall application landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities within the SAP ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT experience in a large, complex environment (nationally or globally distributed preferred).
• 7+ years of solution architecture experience leading end-to-end solution design and delivery across application, integration, data, and security concerns.
• 5+ years of SAP architecture / SAP solution delivery experience, with demonstrated responsibility for solution integrity across multiple workstreams (implementation, integration, security, data, operations).
• Architecture experience supporting SAP-centric business capabilities such as Plant Maintenance / Work Management / Asset Management, and related processes.
• Experience with SAP integrations and patterns (e.g., APIs, events, batch/file, middleware-enabled integrations) and cross-platform coordination.
• Exposure to SAP platform modernization approaches (e.g., ECC-to-S/4 transition planning, integration modernization).
• Experience operating in architecture governance forums (e.g., architecture review boards), managing standards compliance and exception processes.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and practices (e.g., TOGAF), and ability to use them pragmatically to guide decisions.
• Ability to assess and improve application landscape health (identify redundancies, integration risks, and cost/risk reduction opportunities).
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions through the full SDLC (requirements, design, build, test, deployment, operational readiness).
• Strong working knowledge across core architecture domains: software, data, integration, infrastructure/hosting models, and security.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction on large-scale programs/projects, influence across teams, and drive architectural decisions to closure.

Skills

• architecture
• sap
• modernization
• design
• integration
• security
• application