S/Architect
Listed on 2026-07-23
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IT/Tech
SAP Consultant, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Consultant
Location: Greater London
About the Role
The S/4 Architect is a senior Architecture role within Digital & Technology (D&T), accountable for shaping and governing the target architecture of Haleon's SAP S/4 landscape and ensuring the platform delivers maximum business value, simplicity, scalability and operational excellence. This is a highly visible and key central role in a significant global S/4 implementation. For an Architect with deep expertise in SAP S/4 and modern SAP technologies, this role bridges enterprise technology and critical business objectives to define, govern and evolve Haleon's next-generation ERP platform.
Haleon will adopt SAP S/4 Private Cloud Edition including Business Data Cloud, Joule AI and supporting SAP and non‑SAP cloud technologies. This role will own the architecture vision and target state for the S/4 implementation, ensuring technical designs maximise standard capability, minimise complexity, accelerate value delivery and establish a scalable foundation for future innovation.
The S/4 Architect operates proactively and holistically, guiding enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and delivery teams through platform design, optimisation, capability expansion and business process transformation. Working closely with Transformation Architecture, Domain Architects and specialist architects across Integration, Security, Data and Analytics, the role drives a coherent ERP architecture anchored on standard SAP capabilities, end-to-end business processes and enterprise outcomes.
You will join a highly capable world‑class team under strong and clear leadership and leverage your direct and partner team resources to deliver transformational business outcomes.
- SAP S/4 architecture strategy and target‑state ownership.
- Translation of business strategy into SAP‑enabled capabilities, architectures and roadmaps.
- Adoption of SAP best practices and standard functionality.
- Cross‑domain alignment and architectural coherence with Domain Architects.
- Reduction of complexity through standardisation and platform convergence.
- End‑to‑end process and outcome‑centric architecture design.
- Governance of SAP architecture standards, principles and design guardrails.
- Executive‑level advisory to Enterprise Transformation and business leadership.
- Close collaboration with peer specialist architects in integration, data, security and analytics.
Own and govern the target‑state and ongoing SAP S/4 architecture across the enterprise. Define and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures and design standards for the SAP ecosystem. Lead architectural decision‑making across S/4 Core and adjacent SAP technologies including S/4 Private Cloud Edition, related public cloud applications, S/4 infrastructure and application components, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) & BTP‑IS, Joule AI and Joule Studio capabilities, SAP GRC and security.
Ensure all solution designs maximise adoption of SAP standard functionality before considering customisation and act as the architectural authority for S/4 platform design decisions.
Translate business objectives into SAP platform capabilities and technology roadmaps. Identify opportunities to simplify processes through SAP standardisation. Drive long‑term S/4 platform evolution and provide architectural leadership for new SAP capabilities, innovations and AI‑enabled opportunities. Ensure architecture roadmaps balance business value, technical sustainability and operational excellence.
Drive architectural decisions that reduce fragmentation, complexity and technical debt across the SAP ecosystem. Promote standard SAP processes, common data models, reusable integration patterns and global design consistency. Challenge unnecessary customisation and local optimisation that undermine enterprise outcomes. Ensure platform choices optimise cost, scalability, integration, data quality and operational resilience.
Operate as accountable decision maker for S/4 architectural governance…
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