Description
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Architect to lead the technical architecture and governance of their SAP landscape. The successful candidate will have 15-18 years of experience in driving complex enterprise-wide transformations, system integration strategies, and technical governance.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the principal technical authority across SAP S/4HANA, SAP CRM, BW, and integrated boundary systems.
- Design scalable, resilient, and secure end-to-end technical architectures that align with enterprise strategy and clean core principles.
- Set technical standards, coding guidelines, performance benchmarks, and architectural design patterns.
- Architect robust integration strategies connecting SAP S/4HANA and SAP CRM with legacy, cloud, and 3rd-party platforms.
- Oversee data flow design, real-time interface performance, and fault-tolerant message handling.
- Lead technical execution for global SAP rollouts, system upgrades, kernel updates, and landscape modernizations.
- Partner with SAP Basis and Infrastructure teams to design high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), sizing, and transport management strategies.
- Oversee legacy system cutovers, technical data migrations, and system downtime optimization strategy.
- Align SAP CRM and S/4HANA transactional architecture with SAP BW / BW4HANA / Analytics Cloud solutions for seamless data extraction and analytics.
- Optimize data extraction models, CDS views, and SLT replication frameworks.
- Mentor and lead technical leads, ABAP developers, integration specialists, and Basis teams.
- Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architects, Functional Leads, C-level executives, and external implementation partners.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, or a related field; Master's degree an asset.
- 12-15 years of hands-on technical experience in SAP development, architecture, and landscape design.
- Proven track record as a Technical Architect on at least 2-3 full-lifecycle end-to-end SAP implementation/migration projects.
- Deep knowledge of S/4HANA architecture, ABAP on HANA, CDS Views, AMDP, OData services, and Fiori UI5 extension techniques.
- Strong expertise in SAP CRM technical frameworks, SAP Integration, and SAP Basis Alignment.
- Sound technical knowledge of SAP BW/BW4HANA architectures, CDS view-based extraction, and operational reporting setups.
- Strong problem-solving ability with a structured approach to technical trade-off decisions.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical business stakeholders.
- Experience managing multi-vendor execution teams in global, distributed delivery models.