SAP Technical Architect

Job Responsibilities & Requirements

A Brief Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced SAP Technical Architect with deep expertise in SAP Basis, Development, and Integration architecture to lead and scale a complex global SAP landscape. This role is responsible for defining the overall SAP technical architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and driving the design, governance, and optimization of a SAP RISE Private Cloud environment supporting multi-country deployments and enterprise-wide integrations.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep architectural expertise, strong technical judgment, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct people management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and manage SAP landscapes (n+1, n+2 environments) to support global rollouts, parallel project execution, and long-term scalability.
• Lead end-to-end technical architecture across SAP RISE Private Cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, availability, security, and performance.
• Define solution architecture for new capabilities, enhancements, and integrations while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, technology standards, and business objectives.
• Drive integration architecture strategy across SAP and non-SAP platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable data flows.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, technical design documents, and architecture decision records to ensure consistency and traceability across programs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, recommending solutions that simplify architecture and improve long-term maintainability.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive landscape maintenance strategy, including system health monitoring, preventative maintenance, patching, upgrades, system refreshes, and lifecycle management.
• Define and govern release, transport, and environment management strategies to support reliable deployments across multiple landscapes while minimizing deployment risk.
• Establish structured communication plans for releases, incidents, planned maintenance, and major technical changes across technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Own system performance, capacity planning, monitoring, and observability, proactively identifying and resolving technical bottlenecks across SAP applications and integrations.
• Design and enforce security architecture, identity integrations, compliance controls, and access governance aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR).
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, including RTO/RPO objectives, failover testing, resilience planning, and periodic validation.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison with SAP (RISE), hyperscaler providers, and strategic technology partners, managing technical escalations, SLAs, and service performance.
• Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cybersecurity, development, integration, and project teams to ensure solutions conform to enterprise architecture, operational standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Establish and enforce SAP technical governance, architectural standards, design principles, and best practices across the SAP ecosystem.
• Review and approve technical solution designs to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and long-term supportability.
• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to implementation partners, project teams, and engineers while fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 10+ years of experience in SAP technical architecture with deep specialization in SAP Basis.
• Proven experience architecting and managing SAP RISE Private Cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) and enterprise integration architecture.
• Strong expertise with SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) or comparable Change & Release Management / DevOps orchestration platforms.
• Working knowledge of ABAP, including debugging, enhancements, transports, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical architecture for complex multi-country SAP implementations and global rollouts.
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