Sap Solutions Architect

Fast Dolphin is an international staffing company with over two decades of experience specializing in recruiting bilingual and multilingual IT experts across the Americas as well as providing payroll and customized staffing solutions. Moreover, we take pride in boosting the careers and dreams of our professionals.

We are currently looking for an ITSS Enterprise Applications
- Solutions Architect to work on a 8-month, remote project in USA, US Citizenship required (USC only).

Job Title:
ITSS Enterprise Applications
- Solutions Architect.

Location: Remote in USA.

Start Date: April.

Length: 8 months

We are looking to augment our team with an Enterprise Applications Solutions architect who has experience working across SAP, Deltek, HR Systems, Microsoft platforms and IBM Maximo.

• Play a significant role in the definition and implementation of an over-arching application strategy, including architecture, design, and roadmaps.
• Ensure the optimum utilization of existing system platforms and their integration while considering and facilitating the justified deployment of new technologies in response to business requirements.
• Craft adaptable, comprehensive, and feasible solutions by creating necessary blueprint documents for functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Design functional solutions to solve business problems and needs.
• Ensure agreement on design with process owners. Review and participate in solution build and test activities on Enterprise Application implementations, rollouts, or upgrade projects.
• Operate as solution architect simultaneously across several projects that are in progress.
• Review and revise current standards to ensure best practice while ensuring architecture diagrams are current.
• Serve as the conduit between businesses and technology.
• Review design recommendations to ensure quality and consistency across the application landscape.
• Review SAP and other applications such as SAP Concur, UKG, IBM Maximo and other ancillary platforms' functional specifications to ensure quality solutions are proposed and not duplicating existing functionality.
• Perform fit-gap analysis via discovery by engaging with business units and other SAP CoE team members.
• Advise on solution roadmap for SAP projects while considering current application landscape. Conduct comparative research and recommend strategies relating to emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with peers in the CoE to apply best practices to integrate between SAP applications.
• Provide recommendations supportive of a shared-service model and long-term organization strategy for enterprise-level applications, architecture, upgrades, interfaces, and enhancements.
• Research, identify, select, and test technology products in support of applications and systems development efforts, and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Provide recommendations based on long-term development organization strategy and develop enterprise-level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions, and features.
• Provide architectural expertise and technical assistance to software developers.
• Lead product market research, analysis of alternative (AoA) software, business case, demonstration, installation, development, implementation, deployment, and sustainment of new applications.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including SAP/UKG/Concur administrators, developers, functional analyst, and configuration analyst.
• Stay updated with the latest SAP technologies and best practices, and proactively recommend improvements to enhance system efficiency and effectiveness.
• Share knowledge and expertise through training and documentation.
• Foster a collaborative and supportive work environment where innovation as well as continuous learning and improvements are encouraged.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with 10 years of related work experience, and minimum seven years of SAP development and implementation experience.
• Stated experience must include at least 10 years of experience in SAP ECC 6.0 integration across FI, CO, PS, MM, and SD; BW; IT/SAP project methodologies and change control processes;
  Project Systems Configuration and Development;
  Implementation of custom solutions leveraging BADI, BAPI, CMOD, and BTE.
• Experience as an Enterprise-level solution architect.
• Experience in Business Process Consulting, problem definition, Architecture/Design/Detailing of Processes.
• Deep understanding of requirements analysis, design, and system architecture of SAP S/4 HANA and RICEFW development/integration.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Expertise with multi-tiered application architectures, including SAP, and legacy systems modernization.
• Experience with systems development, systems integration, application design and/or legacy.
• Experience implementing or migrating to Cloud Service Provider (CSP)…