SAP Chief Solution Architect, Chief

Technology & Security designs, develops, operates, and maintains PG&E’s technology, telecommunications, and security capabilities that enable the company to meet its commitment to providing safe, reliable, and affordable service to customers.

Technology & Security partners with the business to strengthen capabilities through the development of new functionality, the implementation of modern and secure technologies, and the continuous improvement of systems and services. By reducing risk, increasing productivity, managing costs, and enabling organizational effectiveness, Technology & Security helps advance PG&E’s strategic priorities through trusted, innovative, and secure solutions.

The SAP Chief Technical Architect is the technology futurist and chief engineering authority for the Propel Program. This role defines what SAP capabilities PG&E should adopt, when to adopt them, how to govern them, and how to ensure the technical foundation is ready for future releases.

The role owns the long‑term SAP technology strategy and future‑state architecture across SAP S/4

HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, Integration Suite, Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, SAP AI and Joule, security, development, data, integration, observability, and platform services. It aligns SAP strategy with enterprise strategy and ensures solutions are scalable, secure, operable, cost‑conscious, upgrade‑ready, and consistent with Clean Core principles.

This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. This Chief will be assigned to PG&E’s headquarters in Oakland, California.

This SAP Chief Technical Architect reports directly to the Senior Director, IT—SAP Technology Enablement & Operations.

This is an engineering executive, high‑level individual contributor role that leads through technical authority, influence, standards, governance, and cross‑functional coordination. The SAP Chief Technical Architect provides functional direction to architects and technical teams and acts as the escalation point and tie‑breaker for high‑impact technology decisions.

The SAP Chief Technical Architect addresses complex issues that span the enterprise. Managing projects or initiatives that are high complexity and significant risk. The Chief works with Senior Management to guide strategies and decisions. “Propel” is the enterprise‑wide technical transformation project.

• Own Propel's 12-, 24-, and 36-month SAP technology roadmap, including target‑state architecture, lifecycle transitions, sequencing, dependencies, investment needs, and retirement of legacy capabilities.
• Keep SAP strategy aligned with PG&E enterprise strategy, business priorities, security requirements, architecture standards, operating‑model needs, financial objectives, and SAP product direction.
• Evaluate emerging SAP capabilities and recommend what to adopt, when to adopt it, and what not to adopt based on business value, maturity, risk, cost, security, operational readiness, and release timing.
• Own the SAP innovation backlog and governed POC pipeline for generative and agentic AI, Joule, SAP Knowledge Graph, SAP Build Code, Event Mesh, Business Data Cloud, SAP Graph, advanced observability, and Cloud ALM. Define success criteria and scale, defer, redesign, or stop recommendations.
• Own Propel's SAP technical governance framework and architecture decision process. Establish reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, guardrails, decision records, architecture signoffs, and exception controls.
• Define and govern BTP platform architecture, account and subaccount principles, environments, entitlements,…