Technical Architect

IBM; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology firm in Victoria is seeking a Technical Architect to lead the design and delivery of advanced SAP solutions. Candidates must have extensive experience in SAP environments, strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA, and excellent stakeholder management skills. The role involves shaping technical strategy and guiding multi-disciplinary teams to achieve high-quality business outcomes. This position offers opportunities for innovation within a collaborative work culture.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing complex, large-scale SAP and cloud solutions.
• Proven ability to define technical roadmaps and architectural strategies.
• Experience working across multi-vendor delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of next-generation SAP solutions across complex environments.
• Ensure alignment with organizational and government standards.
• Develop enterprise-grade SAP solution architectures aligned with strategy.

Skills

Extensive experience as a Technical Architect specializing in SAP

Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA

Excellent stakeholder management skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Education

Certification in SAP architecture or related

Job description

Overview

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The Technical Architect will lead the design, development, and delivery of next‑generation SAP solutions across complex enterprise environments. The role is responsible for shaping technical strategy, defining solution architectures, driving innovation, and ensuring alignment with organisational and government standards. This position requires deep technical expertise, strong stakeholder engagement capability, and the ability to guide multi‑disciplinary teams in delivering high‑quality SAP-enabled business outcomes.

• Develop and govern enterprise‑grade SAP solution architectures across SAP NextGen platforms, ensuring alignment with business strategy and technical standards.
• Provide expert architectural leadership across SAP S/4HANA, cloud integrations, digital platforms, automation technologies, and emerging SAP innovations.
• Lead technical design processes, architectural reviews, and end‑to‑end solution assurance for major programs and complex multi‑vendor environments.
• Translate business requirements into robust architectural blueprints, integration patterns, and technology roadmaps.
• Advise program and project teams on SAP platform engineering, performance optimisation, data strategy, security, and integration approaches.
• Partner with senior business, technical, and vendor stakeholders to influence strategy, shape solution direction, and ensure technical coherence.
• Drive innovation by evaluating new SAP technologies, cloud capabilities, and automation opportunities to enhance digital transformation outcomes.
• Oversee and guide development teams, ensuring best practice engineering, scalability, maintainability, and compliance with security and architectural frameworks.
• Support risk identification, mitigation planning, and architectural governance to ensure quality and reliability of technical solutions.
• Prepare and deliver high‑quality architectural documentation, technical assessments, and executive‑level recommendations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of architectural methods, standards, and capability uplift within the organisation.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Extensive experience as a Technical Architect or Application Architect specialising in SAP enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, cloud integration services, data models, and API‑driven architectures.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex, large‑scale, mission‑critical SAP and cloud solutions across government or regulated sectors.
• Proven ability to define technical roadmaps, architectural strategies, and solution frameworks for multi‑platform SAP deployments.
• Strong understanding of contemporary architecture practices including microservices, cloud‑native design, automation, and DevSecOps.
• Experience working across multi‑vendor delivery models and guiding development, integration, and testing teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executive and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities with a focus on quality, reliability, and scalability.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Certification in SAP architecture, SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, or relevant cloud provider certifications.
• Experience in government digital transformation programs or high‑security technical environments.
• Exposure to AI‑enabled automation, analytics, and next‑generation SAP innovation technologies.