SAP Solutions Architect

We are seeking an experienced SAP Solutions Architect to lead the design and governance of end-to-end SAP business solutions across our client engagements.

We are seeking an experienced SAP Solutions Architect to lead the design and governance of end-to-end SAP business solutions across our client engagements. The role will ensure that solutions spanning SAP S/4

HANA, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), and other SAP applications are strategically aligned, scalable, integrated, and capable of delivering measurable business outcomes. The Architect acts as the bridge between client business stakeholders, programme leadership, and specialist SAP solution teams. They are responsible for ensuring solution coherence across functional domains, ensuring that individual workstream designs collectively support the client's target operating model and transformation objectives.

This is not a hands-on configuration role or technical role. Rather, it requires broad SAP ecosystem knowledge, strong architectural thinking, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to challenge and guide subject matter experts toward an integrated solution.

• Define and own the overall business solution architecture across SAP programmes
• Ensure solutions align with client business objectives, transformation goals, and strategic roadmaps
• Develop and communicate clear target-state business capabilities and solution architectures
• Translate business strategy into practical SAP-enabled solution designs

• Coordinate solution designs across multiple SAP domains, including:
• S/4
  
  HANA
• BTP
• Business Data Cloud (BDC)
• SAC
• IBP
• Success Factors
• Ariba
• Concur
• Customer Experience (CX)
• Integration and data platforms
• Identify and resolve cross-stream design conflicts, dependencies, and risks
• Facilitate design authority and architecture review forums
• Ensure consistency of business processes, master data, analytics, reporting, controls, and integration approaches

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders
• Facilitate workshops with business and IT leadership
• Challenge requirements where appropriate to ensure strategic alignment
• Present solution options, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to programme steering groups

• Ensure solutions are scalable, supportable, secure, and aligned with SAP best practices
• Assess the impact of design decisions across business functions and SAP applications
• Govern adherence to architectural principles and transformation objectives
• Support programme governance, quality assurance, and solution reviews

• Work closely with functional, technical, data, integration, and change management leads
• Support roadmap development and release planning
• Guidence solution teams through complex design decisions
• Assit during key project phases, including:
• Discovery
• Solution design
• Fit-to-standard workshops
• Build governance
• Testing strategy
• Deployment planning

• 10+ years of SAP consulting, solution architecture, or transformation experience
• Experience delivering multiple large-scale SAP transformation programmes
• Strong understanding of SAP's broader solution portfolio and how products interact
• Experience working across several of:
• SAP S/4
  
  HANA
• SAP BTP
• SAP SAC
• SAP IBP
• SAP Business Data Cloud
• SAP Success Factors
• SAP Ariba
• SAP CX

• Proven ability to map business objectives to solution designs.
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes across:
• Finance
• Procurement
• Supply Chain
• Manufacturing
• Sales
• Analytics and Reporting
• Experience…