SAP Technical Architect

Job Responsibilities

Arcitect, design, and manage SAP landscapes (n+1, n+2 environments) to support global rollouts, parallel project execution, and long-term scalability.

Lead end-to-end technical architecture across SAP RISE Private Cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, availability, security, and performance.

Define solution architecture for new capabilities, enhancements, and integrations while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, technology standards, and business objectives.

Drive integration architecture strategy across SAP and non-SAP platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable data flows.

Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, technical design documents, and architecture decision records to ensure consistency and traceability across programs.

Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, recommending solutions that simplify architecture and improve long-term maintainability.

Develop and execute a comprehensive landscape maintenance strategy, including system health monitoring, preventative maintenance, patching, upgrades, system refreshes, and lifecycle management.

Define and govern release, transport, and environment management strategies to support reliable deployments across multiple landscapes while minimizing deployment risk.

Establish structured communication plans for releases, incidents, planned maintenance, and major technical changes across technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.

Own system performance, capacity planning, monitoring, and observability, proactively identifying and resolving technical bottlenecks across SAP applications and integrations.

Define and govern security architecture, identity integrations, compliance controls, and access governance aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR).

Own disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, including RTO/RPO objectives, failover testing, resilience planning, and periodic validation.

Serve as the primary technical liaison with SAP (RISE), hyperscaler providers, and strategic technology partners, managing technical escalations, SLAs, and service performance.

Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cybersecurity, development, integration, and project teams to ensure solutions conform to enterprise architecture, operational standards, and non-functional requirements.

Establish and enforce SAP technical governance, architectural standards, design principles, and best practices across the SAP ecosystem.

Review and approve technical solution designs to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and long-term supportability.

Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to implementation partners, project teams, and engineers while fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

10+ years of experience in SAP technical architecture with deep specialization in SAP Basis.

Proven experience architecting and managing SAP RISE Private Cloud environments.

Strong expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) and enterprise integration architecture.

Strong expertise with SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) or comparable Change & Release Management / DevOps orchestration platforms.

Working knowledge of ABAP, including debugging, enhancements, transports, and performance optimization.

Demonstrated experience leading the technical architecture for complex multi-country SAP implementations and global rollouts.

Experience designing and managing n+1 / n+2 SAP landscapes.

Experience producing technical architecture documentation, solution designs, reference architectures, and technical standards.

Experience evaluating and implementing enterprise technologies while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance standards.

Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, and hybrid cloud environments.

Experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps and evaluating emerging technologies.

Qualifications

Self-starter with strong ownership and accountability.

Demonstrated technical leadership with the ability to influence architectural decisions across cross-functional teams.

Ability to drive enterprise transformation through technical vision and architectural best practices.

Strong collaboration skills across global, cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.

Excellent communication skills with technical, business, and executive stakeholders.

Ability to build consensus and influence without direct authority.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities.

Comfortable operating in fast-paced, highly complex enterprise environments.

Additional Requirements

10% Travel will be planned in advance and related to job requirements.

Physical Demands: This role is performed in an office environment where a computer, telephone and other office equipment are used as needed to perform the duties of the role. This role may need to access areas within the building that are undergoing renovations which may contain jobsite hazards. Occasionally this role will require to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.