SAP Solution Architect

Realtime Recruitment Limited; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtime Recruitment is seeking a principal-level ERP SAP Solution Architect to define the end-to-end technical architecture for a greenfield SAP programme in Milton Keynes, operating in a hybrid model with on-site presence 2–3 days a week.

You will steer low-level design, ensure Azure integration and data platform alignment, and review partner designs to guarantee coherent, secure, and well‑integrated solutions that meet business requirements.

Qualifications

• Principal-level SAP solution architecture experience across complex, integrated enterprise implementations.
• Cloud-native integration experience with Azure Integration Services and SAP integration to Azure.
• Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA landscapes, SAP BTP and SAP Integration Suite.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the end-to-end technical architecture for the SAP solution: landscape, environments, integration, data, identity, security, resilience, performance, monitoring and supportability.
• Steer the solution through low-level design to ensure designs align with the architecture.
• Align SAP design with enterprise architecture, Azure Integration Services, data platforms and connected core systems.
• Review and challenge the partner’s technical designs, dependencies and non-standard components.
• Define and assure interface architecture, data contracts, mappings and observability.

Skills

SAP architecture

Azure integration

Azure Integration Services

S/4HANA

Data platform

Tools

SAP Integration Suite

Azure API Management

Logic Apps

Job description

Location: Milton Keynes, hybrid (2-3 days on site per week) | Duration: 12 months | IR35: Outside |

Realtime Recruitment is looking for a principal-level ERP Solution Architect with deep SAP technical expertise and cloud-native Azure integration experience to join a major national programme. This is a true greenfield site: there is no legacy estate to work around, and the programme is now moving into low-level design, so you’ll be shaping the solution at the point where the important decisions get made.

This is a client-side role. An implementation partner is delivering the SAP solution and the finance leads own the finance processes. You will be the independent technical voice alongside both, making sure what gets designed is coherent, secure, well integrated and fit to run.

What you’ll be doing

• Defining and maintaining the end-to-end technical architecture for the SAP solution: landscape, environments, integration, data, identity, security, resilience, performance, monitoring and supportability
• Steering the solution through low-level design, making sure detailed designs hold true to the agreed architecture
• Aligning the SAP design with enterprise architecture principles, Azure Integration Services, cloud-native integration patterns, the data platform and connected core systems
• Reviewing and challenging the implementation partner’s technical designs, assumptions, dependencies, extensions and non-standard components
• Assessing the technical impact of proposed configuration, extensions, third‑party products, custom development and manual workarounds
• Defining and assuring interface architecture, data contracts, mappings, integration controls, error handling, observability and technical reconciliation
• Working with Cyber, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Operations on access, security roles, segregation of duties, data protection, environments, release controls and transition to service
• Giving technical input to design authority, quality gates, testing, migration, cutover and readiness decisions, flagging risks and recommending actions
• Translating finance requirements into technical implications and confirming the partner’s design addresses them

What the role isn’t

You won’t be designing finance processes or making accounting decisions, and you won’t be configuring or building. You own the client-side technical architecture view and advise programme governance on technical fitness, risk and alignment.

What you’ll bring

• Principal‑level SAP solution architecture experience across complex, integrated enterprise implementations
• Cloud‑native integration experience with Azure Integration Services (such as API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus and Event Grid), ideally integrating SAP with Azure and enterprise data platforms
• Strong technical knowledge of SAP S/4HANA landscapes, SAP BTP and SAP Integration Suite, plus interfaces, environments, identity, security, data, non‑functional requirements and service transition
• Experience on greenfield programmes, particularly through low‑level design
• Experience acting as client‑side design authority and independently challenging a systems integration partner
• The ability to turn business and finance requirements into technical impacts and architecture decisions
• A background in high‑volume, regulated or operationally critical environments