Description
We are looking for a Senior Data Architect / Techno-functional Integration specialist who will lead the integration architecture, design, development, and implementation of supply chain planning solutions, including Forecasting, supply planning, inventory optimization, and available to promise.
You will work closely with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and external partners to align integration of IT strategy with business goals and deliver innovative, scalable, secure, integrated solutions.
You will also collaborate with a team of highly talented IT professionals to create system, data, and process architectural blueprints leveraging the latest technologies, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.
This position requires bringing thought leadership on the latest data/integration guidelines, industry-standard best practices, and technology trends, including AI, aligned to SAP's forward-looking product roadmap.
Exposure to AI tools is a must, and direct experience building AI solutions for data management is preferred.
Detailed Job Description/Key Responsibilities:
- Strategy and Vision: Define and execute data/integration strategy roadmap for supply chain planning, ensuring alignment with business strategy and priorities.
- Solution Delivery: Lead Data/Integration workstream for all supply chain planning programs with SAP Embedded BW/Integrated Business Planner (IBP) as the core platform, managing end-to-end project lifecycle, from scoping and planning to testing and deployment.
- Design integration strategies, data maps while minimizing data footprints across the landscape.
- Integration Leadership: Manage integration of SAP embedded BW/SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), Cloud Platform Integration for Data Services (CI-DS) with other systems and applications, such as SAP S4 HANA, SAP IBP, and related third-party tools.
- System Interoperability: Design, build, and govern enterprise-wide data pipelines.
- Operational Stability: Oversee the maintenance, support, and enhancement of all integrations existing in supply chain planning systems and applications, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and security.
- Manage a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, coaching, and feedback, and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
- Stakeholder Management: Establish and maintain effective relationships with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and external partners, acting as a trusted advisor and a key point of contact for IT-related matters.
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend competitive and/or new alternative data integration technologies and products which further the enterprise application and data strategy.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Extensive domain knowledge of supply chain planning with deep technical expertise and strong knowledge of master and transaction data.
- Minimum 15-18 years of IT experience, with at least 10 years in a techno-functional leadership role and comprehensive understanding of AI tools/solutions, relevant to data management.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering large-scale and complex cross-function IT projects, preferably in the supply chain planning domain.
- Extensive experience with SAP embedded BW/BTP/CI-DS, including architecture, configuration, customization, integration, testing, and deployment.
- Strong knowledge of SAP EBW, S4 HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and other SAP modules and applications related to supply chain planning, with deep expertise in SAP system capabilities.
- Knowledge of AI models specific to enhancing data quality along with deployment expertise.
- Excellent communication, influencing, presentation, and interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and external partners.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and independent decision-making skills, with the ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
- Capable of working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and adapting to changing business needs and requirements.
- Willingness to travel internationally as needed.