SAP Solution Architect

Review, challenge, and shape the end-to-end S/4HANA solution roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and target architecture. Validate solution designs against business requirements, end-to-end processes, architecture principles, and S/4HANA best practices. Provide architecture and functional guidance across S/4HANA Logistics and IS-Oil, including integration with Finance and surrounding enterprise applications. Provide functional assurance across key logistics processes such as Procure-to-Pay, Inventory Warehouse Management, Order-to-Cash, Transportation, Supply Chain, and Materials Management. Assess Oil Gas-specific logistics requirements, including hydrocarbon supply and distribution, product movements, bulk logistics, inventory, quantity conversion, terminal/depot processes, and associated commercial processes. Evaluate cross-functional solution decisions and identify gaps, dependencies, integration impacts, risks, and potential technical debt. Promote Fit-to-Standard, simplification, and clean-core principles, challenging unnecessary customization and complexity. Provide independent solution governance and oversight alongside the IBM team, ensuring designs remain consistent with the agreed roadmap and business outcomes. Participate in Design Authority and Architecture Review forums and provide recommendations on key design decisions and exceptions. Act as the bridge between business, functional, and technical teams, translating business requirements into scalable, integrated, and sustainable S/4HANA solutions. Constructively challenge System Integrator recommendations while maintaining a collaborative, outcome-focused relationship.

Extensive experience as an SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect, Logistics Architect, or senior functional architect on large transformation programs. Strong functional expertise across SAP Logistics, particularly MM, SD, Inventory/Warehouse, Transportation, and supply-chain processes. Strong understanding of SAP IS-Oil and Oil Gas downstream/logistics business processes. Proven ability to architect and assess end-to-end, cross-functional S/4HANA solutions, rather than individual modules in isolation. Strong understanding of integration between Logistics, IS-Oil, Finance, data, and non-SAP applications. Experience reviewing and challenging solution designs delivered by large System Integrators. Experience with architecture governance, Design Authority, and complex multi-vendor SAP programs. Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise senior business, IT, and program leadership.