SAP Technical Architect

TrueNorth®; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TrueNorth® is seeking a hands-on SAP Technical Architect to own the live SAP landscape, including S/4HANA, Basis and HANA, with Azure hosting. The role requires practical understanding of how the estate operates across infrastructure and applications, with ownership of incidents and end-to-end resolution.

The successful candidate will manage complex SAP environments, drive improvements in monitoring, security and transport, and collaborate with hosting partners and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on SAP technical experience, particularly Basis and HANA.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, storage, networking, HA and DR.
• SAP on Azure or comparable cloud-hosting experience.
• Experience managing complex SAP environments and transport landscapes.
• Understanding of SAP interfaces, APIs, IDocs and event-driven integration.
• Evidence of resolving serious cross-platform incidents to root cause.
• Confidence challenging technical designs and supplier recommendations.
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience running ECC and S/4HANA side by side, or exposure to EWM, IBP, BTP, warehouse automation or manufacturing systems, would be highly beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical view of the SAP estate
• Oversee SAP infrastructure, hosting, Basis and HANA services
• Manage capacity, performance, availability, resilience and disaster recovery
• Assure environment strategy, system copies, refreshes and transport management
• Lead complex cross-team incident and problem resolution
• Review technical designs for security, supportability and operability
• Challenge systems integrators and hosting partners when required
• Support SAP security, access and audit readiness
• Own technical cutover activity and support go-live weekends
• Improve monitoring, documentation, alerting and automation

Skills

SAP S/4HANA

Azure cloud

Basis & HANA

Incident management

Security & compliance

Stakeholder communication

SAP interfaces APIs IDocs

Job description

SAP Technical Architect - S/4HANA, Basis & Azure

Hybrid working: 2-3 days per week in Newcastle upon Tyne

TrueNorth are supporting a large UK organisation delivering a major SAP S/4HANA transformation across a complex, business-critical operational estate.

We are looking for a hands-on SAP Technical Architect to take end-to-end ownership of the live SAP landscape. This is not a purely strategic or whiteboard-based architecture position. It requires someone capable of understanding how the estate operates in practice and resolving issues across infrastructure, platform and application layers.

The role

You will hold the complete technical picture across SAP S/4HANA, the remaining Business Suite estate, Azure infrastructure, Basis, HANA, environments, interfaces, security and connected applications.

When an incident crosses multiple teams or suppliers, you will take ownership, establish the root cause and drive it through to a permanent resolution.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical view of the SAP estate
• Oversee SAP infrastructure, hosting, Basis and HANA services
• Manage capacity, performance, availability, resilience and disaster recovery
• Assure environment strategy, system copies, refreshes and transport management
• Lead complex cross-team incident and problem resolution
• Review technical designs for security, supportability and operability
• Challenge systems integrators and hosting partners when required
• Support SAP security, access and audit readiness
• Own technical cutover activity and support go-live weekends
• Improve monitoring, documentation, alerting and automation

What we’re looking for

• Deep hands-on SAP technical experience, particularly Basis and HANA
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, storage, networking, HA and DR
• SAP on Azure or comparable cloud-hosting experience
• Experience managing complex SAP environments and transport landscapes
• Understanding of SAP interfaces, APIs, IDocs and event-driven integration
• Evidence of resolving serious cross-platform incidents to root cause
• Confidence challenging technical designs and supplier recommendations
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Experience running ECC and S/4HANA side by side, or exposure to EWM, IBP, BTP, warehouse automation or manufacturing systems, would be highly beneficial.