SAP Solution Architect

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.