SAP S​/HANA Technical Architect

Charlotte, North Carolina 28105 Posted October 1st, 2026

Job Title: SAP S/4

HANA Technical Architect

Location: Charlotte, NC

Full Time

Job Description

• 15+ years of SAP technology experience with architecture leadership on large, global SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation programs.
• Minimum three end-to-end SAP implementations, including technical architecture responsibility for at least one SAP S/4
  
  HANA or RISE with SAP program.
• Deep expertise in SAP Basis architecture, landscape design, sizing, high availability, disaster recovery, system copies, refreshes, upgrades, patching, transports, performance, and operations.
• Experience directing SAP environments across development, quality, test, training, pre-production, production, and disaster-recovery landscapes.
• Strong knowledge of SAP HANA, S/4
  
  HANA, Fiori, Web Dispatcher, SAP Cloud Connector, SAP BTP connectivity, identity services, interfaces, and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Experience leading SAP Security architecture covering roles and authorizations, Fiori catalogs and spaces, business roles, privileged access, emergency access, segregation of duties, and audit controls.
• Experience leading enterprise SAP testing across functional, integration, regression, automation, performance, security, data, cutover, and operational-readiness testing.
• Knowledge of test-management and automation tools such as Tricentis, Worksoft, or equivalent, with integration to the program delivery toolchain.
• Strong experience defining and governing the SAP integrated toolchain, including SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, SAP Cloud ALM, and related requirements, testing, deployment, monitoring, and architecture repositories.
• Experience designing tool integrations, common taxonomy, metadata governance, traceability, access controls, reporting, dashboards, and lifecycle ownership across the transformation toolchain.
• Experience with SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations, including projects, requirements, tasks, testing, deployment, integration monitoring, job monitoring, health monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with architecture standards, technical design reviews, clean-core governance, extensibility patterns, non-functional requirements, cybersecurity, and technical risk management.
• Experience leading onshore and offshore Basis, Testing, Security, platform, and toolchain teams, including vendor and SAP coordination.
• Strong understanding of SAP Activate, release and transport governance, Dev Sec Ops  principles, IT service management, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to operations.
• Own the end-to-end SAP technical architecture for the Helix program and serve as the onsite technical leadership focal point in Charlotte, NC.
• Lead the SAP Basis, SAP Testing, SAP Security, and SAP integrated toolchain work streams, establishing priorities, governance, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Define the target SAP landscape architecture, environment strategy, sizing, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational model.
• Create and govern technical architecture standards, roadmaps, non-functional requirements, architecture decisions, design patterns, and technical-debt controls.
• Lead Basis planning and execution for provisioning, builds, upgrades, patching, client strategy, system copies, refreshes, transport routes, performance tuning, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Own the integrated environment calendar and coordinate environment demand, releases, test cycles, data refreshes, maintenance windows, and deployment activities across ARTs.
• Define the SAP security architecture and governance model for roles, authorization concepts, Fiori access, privileged access, segregation of duties, audit evidence, and identity…