IT Architect - SAP - Hybrid
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Job description
This role is responsible for the technical alignment, architectural integrity, and delivery quality of major initiatives within the Work Execution and Plant Maintenance (SAP) domain. The architect designs and governs solutions that comply with architectural standards, leads technical direction across delivery teams, and ensures solutions are secure, compliant, and supportable. This position operates beyond a project-focused solution architect, contributing to roadmaps, cross-domain integration decisions, and landscape health., * Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to satisfy 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
- 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
- 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
- Help improve overall application landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities
Requirements
- Extensive solution and enterprise architecture experience is mandatory
- Extensive experience in solutioning and implementing large scale systems is mandatory
- SAP and BTP experience are mandatory
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of IT experience in a large, complex environment (nationally or globally distributed preferred)
- 8+ years of solution architecture experience leading end-to-end solution design and delivery
- 6+ years of SAP architecture / SAP solution delivery experience
- Architecture experience supporting SAP-centric business capabilities such as Plant Maintenance / Work Management / Asset Management
- Experience with SAP integrations and patterns (e.g., APIs, events, batch/file, middleware-enabled integrations)
- Exposure to SAP platform modernization approaches
- Experience operating in architecture governance forums
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and practices (e.g., TOGAF)
- Experience in Energy / Utilities or similarly regulated, asset-intensive industries
- Demonstrated experience delivering solutions through the full SDLC
- Strong working knowledge across core architecture domains: software, data, integration, infrastructure/hosting models, and security
Desired Skills:
- Experience with migrations from ECC to S4/HANA
- Ability to continually develop and improve one's skill and knowledge to perform effectively and adapt to change
- Making use of all personal resources (talents, skills, energy, and time) to achieve goals
- Setting high goals and working effectively through challenges
- Creative problem-solving skills and ability to maximize available resources
- Ability to convey information in a way that is strategic, honest, timely, and respectful
- Works effectively with others to achieve shared goals through cooperation and sharing knowledge