# SAP Solution Architect

**Company**: Valvoline Global
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

At Valvoline Global, you will become part of a culture that celebrates creativity, innovation, and excellence. The SAP Solution Architect partners with business and technology leaders across SAP-enabled functions to shape and design scalable, secure, integrated, and sustainable business solutions.

**Job Purpose** The SAP Solution Architect role serves as the architectural lead for initiatives where SAP is a significant component of the solution landscape. This role translates business capabilities, requirements, and strategic priorities into end-to-end solution architectures that may span SAP S/4HANA, the broader SAP ecosystem, enterprise applications, integration platforms, data services, and other technologies.

**How You Make an Impact (Job Accountabilities)**

- **Partner with Business Functions and Shape Solutions (30%)**

- Develop trusted partnerships with Finance, Supply Chain, HR, and other business and technology leaders supporting SAP-enabled capabilities.

- Participate in early discovery and planning discussions to understand business strategy, capabilities, pain points, requirements, and transformation priorities.

- Translate business needs into architectural options and recommended solution approaches.

- Facilitate solution-shaping and architecture workshops with Product Owners, functional SMEs, technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.

- **Lead End-to-End Solution Architecture (30%)**

- Develop end-to-end solution architectures for initiatives in which SAP is a significant component of the business solution.

- Define appropriate system boundaries and responsibilities.

- Create and maintain architecture artifacts including solution context diagrams, logical architectures, system interaction diagrams, data flows, architectural decisions, and supporting design documentation.

- **Promote Sustainable SAP Architecture and Clean Core Principles (15%)**

- Promote SAP architecture principles that support clean core, standardization, upgradeability, and long-term platform sustainability.

- Encourage the use of standard SAP capabilities where they satisfy business requirements.

- Evaluate extension approaches and recommend where capabilities should reside.

- **Support Delivery and Architectural Governance (15%)**

- Remain engaged with delivery teams throughout implementation to ensure solution intent is understood and architectural decisions remain valid.

- Provide architectural guidance during planning, backlog refinement, solution design, and major implementation decisions.

- Review requirements and user stories to identify architectural dependencies, risks, and design implications.

- **Ensure Enterprise Architecture Alignment (10%)**

- Align SAP-enabled solutions with enterprise architecture strategies, standards, principles, and technology roadmaps.

- Partner with Enterprise, Integration, Data, Security, Infrastructure, and other Solution Architects to ensure solutions are coherent across architectural domains.

- Promote API-first and decoupled integration patterns using enterprise integration capabilities.

**What You Bring to the Role (Job Qualifications / Education / Skills / Requirements / Capabilities)**

- **Education and Experience**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, or a related discipline.

- 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, or supporting complex enterprise technology solutions.

- Significant experience working with SAP solutions in large-scale enterprise environments.

- **SAP and Enterprise Technology Expertise**

- Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA architecture and the broader SAP technology ecosystem.

- Strong understanding of core enterprise processes supported by SAP.

- Working knowledge of common SAP architectural concepts including integration, extensibility, security, master data, analytics, and application lifecycle considerations.

- **Architecture and Technical Skills**

- Strong understanding of solution architecture principles and end-to-end systems design.

- Experience developing conceptual and logical architecture models, system interaction diagrams, integration architectures, and data flows.

- Strong understanding of API-based integration, asynchronous/event-driven integration, middleware, and enterprise integration patterns.

## Skills

### Required
- SAP S/4HANA
- solution architecture
- integration
- data architecture
- cloud architecture
- cybersecurity

### Nice to have
- MuleSoft
- SAP Business Technology Platform
- SAP SuccessFactors

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