Sr IT Architect - SAP

Senior IT Architect – SAP

Summary: The Ash Group is hiring a Senior IT Architect – SAP for a 12-month contract with a client, a major electricity and natural gas utility provider. The position is available in Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO (Hybrid).

• Compensation: Up to $79/hr W2
• Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and direct primary care benefits. After six months, a 4% matched 401(k) plan with immediate 100% vesting.
• Duration: 12-month contract
• Location: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to meet business outcomes and non-functional requirements.
• 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 and broader technology roadmaps, improving landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of IT experience in a large, complex environment, including 8+ years of solution architecture leading end-to-end design and delivery across application, integration, data, and security.
• 6+ years of SAP architecture and solution delivery experience, with responsibility for solution integrity across multiple workstreams (implementation, integration, security, data, operations).
• Experience with SAP integrations and patterns (APIs, events, batch/file, middleware-enabled integrations) and cross-platform coordination.
• Exposure to SAP platform modernization approaches (ECC-to-S/4 transition planning, integration modernization) and experience in architecture governance forums (review boards, standards compliance).
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and ability to assess and improve application landscape health (identify redundancies, integration risks, cost/risk reduction).
• Experience in Energy/Utilities or similarly regulated, asset-intensive industries.
• 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.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder communication skills across varying organizational levels.