Solution Architect-Manager

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Position Title - Senior Solution Architect 
Primary purpose of the position:
The Senior Solution Architect (SA) is responsible for the work of a team of cross-functional SAs within a community of practice.  This leader is responsible for the process of developing solution architectures and designs that are responsive to business needs while consistent with long term architectures of IT.  The Senior SA is committed to nurturing and assuring the requisite talent across the solution architecture community of practice to accomplish that team’s goals and missions, ensuring that technology solutions meet business requirements and aligned to key deliverables, process, and enterprise architectural requirements while aligning with long-term architectural goals.  In addition, the Senior SA is responsible for evaluating and selecting the technologies required to support those technology solution plans. The Senior SA also provides direction and technical leadership across Client’s IT domains.
 

Essential Responsible Areas:

• Lead the technical and architectural E2E implementations  and support of SAP solutions, including SAP ECC, S/4HANA, SAP CPQ, BTP, SAP Fiori, and all relevant ERP modules ( FICO, MM, SD, WMS.. etc.), ensuring alignment with business requirements and industry best practices
• Work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, and third-party vendors to understand business needs, gather requirements, and translate them into technical solutions that drive business value and enable digital transformation
• Works with system integrator(s) to define and/or review and develop all aspects of the SAP architectural design and integration implementation.
• Ability to roll-up the sleeves and provide very active solution guidance, internal quality check of the SAP program and be a go-to thought leader on many technical aspects of the deployment.
• Owns, leads, manages, and is ultimately responsible for all SAP architecture related workstreams, e.g., infrastructure/cloud, integration of the SAP platforms as well as edge solutions and legacy systems, security, mobility, analytics, etc.
• Validate the alignment of solutions with corporate standards and compliance requirements 
• In collaboration with BCs ensure that capability map, roadmap of technologies aligned to capabilities, and application inventory/lifecycle/TCO established
• Support capability/service delivery area leaders in acquiring and/or upskilling team members so that the requisite skills to oversee work of suppliers and internal development teams to ensure that solutions support the business needs and align to the articulated solution architectures 
• Maintain knowledge of technical products and services in order to assess impact to production environment of proposed design (inclusive of applications and infrastructure) 
• Provide technical guidance to develop solution ideas and provide input for internal delivery teams and/or suppliers in developing solution delivery estimates 
• Review and approve solutions such that the technical requirements are complete, thorough, and representative of all business requirements 
• Understand methods and practices for solution development/build in order to support holistic technical requirements for the solution, inclusive of configuration, security, and quality 
• Drive the preparation for the architectural review process (e.g., ARB) to facilitate discussions regarding necessary modifications to project solution architecture to overcome design challenges or deviations observed in project design 

Position Requirement & competencies:
Professional & Education Qualification

• Broad training in a related field usually acquired through  0  high school; 1  college or 0  graduate degree level education or work-related experience
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or similar 
• 5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect 
• 10+ years of broad-based (infrastructure, application, delivery, etc.) SAP applications design, development, deployment and management experience in large enterprises 
• Experience in managing a global, multinational and remote teams in a matrix environment

Skills    

• Strong consultative skills at a cross functional level 
• Broad based platform and technical exposure and complete software development lifecycle perspective 
• Good presentation and communication skills, with the ability to translate and clearly formulate technical issues for technical and non-technical stakeholders 
• Strong project and team management skills 
• Strong experience with Azure cloud technologies and migration of on-prem SAP Solution
• SAP Central Finance experience is preferred

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