# SAP Platform Architect

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Dearborn, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,600-$166,200
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

Ford is transforming its Enterprise Technology landscape through the implementation of SAP S/4HANA on SAP RISE. This transformation will reduce technical footprint complexity, standardize global business processes, and enable differentiated capabilities across the enterprise.

The SAP Platform Architect, Tooling will play a key role in designing, engineering, and governing the SAP platform ecosystem that supports this transformation.

## Responsibilities

- Platform Architecture & Ecosystem Design: Define, design, and maintain high-availability, global reference architectures for the SAP ecosystem, spanning SAP S/4HANA, Business Technology Platform (BTP), and other data products.

- Platform Engineering & Developer Enablement: Engineer core platform tools, reusable templates, and enablers to accelerate delivery.

- Hybrid Cloud Integration & Security: Design and implement secure, robust connectivity and API patterns bridging on-premises SAP environments, SAP cloud services, and GCP-based containerized applications.

- Observability & Performance Engineering: Establish patterns and reference implementations for enterprise-grade observability, telemetry, and monitoring frameworks for BTP and GCP-hosted applications.

- AI Integration & Emerging Tech Evaluation: Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) and establish architectural standards for AI-driven capabilities.

- Lifecycle Management & Technology Renewal: Plan, govern, and execute regular technology renewal and upgrade cycles across SAP platform components.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with SAP Basis, Security, Data Management, System Integrators, product and business teams.

## Qualifications

- Bachelor's in computer science or engineering or related fields or equivalent experience.

- 6+ years of relevant industry experience implementing SAP and other software.

- In-depth technical knowledge of the S/4HANA eco-system, including RISE cloud, BTP cloud, and GRC.

- Hands-on experience in SAP Basis and SAP BTP Administration.

- Strong communication skills both verbal and written.

- Experience with Hyperscalers with Google Cloud Platform being the most desired.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day

- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

## Skills

### Required
- SAP S/4HANA
- Business Technology Platform (BTP)
- Google Cloud Platform
- SAP Basis
- SAP BTP Administration

### Nice to have
- Informatica MDM
- HANA Database
- Big Query
- Linux operating systems
- SAP Joule/AI
- Project Management

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