SAP Enterprise Architect

Services Sales/Presales Support

• Supports sales/presales team
• Conducts discovery sessions
• Supports proposal creation by defining and describing scope and assumptions
• Designs solution roadmap together with the presales team
• Generates follow-up business through existing client relationships

Project Delivery Support

• Manages expectations with the project team and client
• Flexibility to support multiple parallel projects
• Understands the importance of follow-up and documentation of results
• Trusted advisor to the project team (NTT Data Business Solutions Inc. and customer)
• Supports project manager and engagement director in managing customer expectations
• Credibility towards the client is based on business and SAP product knowledge
• Explain abstract and complex solutions in a way that the customer understands
• Deliver difficult information at all organizational levels and determine appropriate courses of action

Quality Control for Delivery Projects

• Reviews solutions that have been designed without Enterprise Architect - involvement at certain milestones of a project
• Focuses on critical functional/technical areas
• Follows up on execution/adherence of proposed solution on a regular basis
• Mitigates future risks by addressing them early on
• Utilizes the trusted advisor position to influence the client
• Affords assessment of escalation situations
• Manages project escalations and leads proper resolutions in escalation situations

Contacts

• Internal Integration Executive and LOB management
• Sales team and presales team
• NTT Data Business Solutions Inc. consulting organization
• US/international staffing coordinator
• Engagement director
• VP Consulting
• Project manager

Position Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology or related field of study
• 10 years of SAP project implementation experience across multiple modules and industries
• Minimum 6 years of integration experience with other process areas
• Minimum 6 years of leadership experience on SAP implementation/support projects
• Experience configuring multiple SAP modules AND experience across multiple industries

Additional Skills

• Lead collaboration across functional workstreams to create manufacturing template for rollout to multiple sites
• Template scope includes Demand Planning, Scheduling, Manufacturing Execution (with MES integration), Extended Warehouse Management, Quality Management, and Plant Maintenance functionality
• Key responsibilities include: SAP functional solution design, Drive commonality of design across sites, Identify and resolve gaps across the overall solution, Alignment with non-functional workstreams, Development team alignment, Data team interdependencies, Contributor Solution testing, Cutover planning, Readiness planning, Organizational design to support new way of working

Key Traits Required

• Supply chain and manufacturing expertise (discrete – industrial manufacturing)
• S4 “solution architect” type SAP skills in support of integrated template creation
• Essential teaming skills to lead workstreams
• Effective communication skills capable to engage with Senior Management
• Focus on building trust with client via communication, actions and results
• Ability to contribute when engaged in vision/thought leadership activities
• Ability to prioritize and energize team in task delivery

Pay

The annual base compensation range for this role will be $150,000 - $232,325.

Schedule

The exact compensation at which this job is filled will be determined by a number of factors including but not limited to organizational needs and the qualified candidate’s skill set, certifications, and experience.