Principal Solution Architect, SAP Streaming Solutions (BRIM, SOM, FICA)

Company Description

We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our theme parks and consumer experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, USA Network, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through Universal Filmed Entertainment Group and Universal Studio Group, and have world-renowned theme parks and attractions through Universal Destinations & Experiences. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

Here you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain and empower through our platforms, Comcast NBCUniversal stands for including everyone. Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, is informed by our employees, audiences, park guests and the communities in which we live. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where our employees feel supported, embraced and heard. Together, we’ll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the current and ever-changing face of the world.

Job Description

The Principal Solution Architect, SAP Streaming Solutions will play a significant role in the definition and implementation of an over-arching application strategy, including architecture, design, and roadmaps. The successful candidate will perform work that is highly complex, varied in nature, and span multiple functional areas, though being focused in one or two. This individual will also seek to ensure the optimum utilization of existing system platforms and their integration while considering and / or facilitating the justified deployment of new technologies in response to business requirements. As a Principal Solution Architect, this role will be responsible for guiding configuration, functional design and managing initiatives relating Subscription business.  

This role will be hybrid out of NBCUniversal's campuses in Universal City, CA OR Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Understanding NBCU business processes requirements by engaging with business partners at enterprise and division level.
• Understanding of subscription related business process and revenue accounting relating
• Understand the full life cycle of subscription process through SAP S/4 BRIM (SOM, CM, CC, CI/FICA, FICO)
• Craft adaptable, comprehensive, and feasible solutions by creating necessary blueprint documents for functional requirements and technical specifications.
• Design functional solutions to solve business problems and needs.
• Ensure agreement on design with process owners.
• Review and/or participate in solution build and test activities on SAP implementations, rollouts, or upgrade projects; may be asked to step in to conduct project management activities from time to time.
• Lead end-to-end implementations plus engage as solution architect simultaneously with other SAP projects that are in progress. This requires cross technical/functional team project management.
• Effectively delegate responsibilities to team members, provide them with repeatable processes, and verify the quality of their work.
• Review work performed by other team members as per established standards
• Review current standards and revise to ensure best practices
• Ensure architecture diagrams are current
• Serve as the conduit between businesses and technology
• Facilitate business requirement definition sessions
• Review design recommendations to ensure quality and consistency across the footprint
• Review all SAP functional specifications with regards to media related solution to ensure quality solutions are proposed and not duplicating existing functionality.
• Perform fit-gap analysis via discovery by engaging with business units and SAP team members
• Advise on solution roadmap for SAP projects considering current footprint
• Conduct comparative research and recommend strategies with regards to SAP technologies relating to Subscription related Solutions.
• Collaborate with peers in the Business Solutions team to apply best practices to integrate SAP applications (ECC, S/4, MPM, VISTEX, BRIM, BW, SAC and BPC)
• Assist in hiring SAP related resources, vendor selection, product selection, strategy related to SAP solutions.

This is considered a senior role within the SAP team. NBCU SAP team has approximately 90 team members and this role is expected to provide solution leadership to