SAP Technical Architect

Axiom Software Solutions Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an SAP Technical Architect for a 9-month fixed-term contract. The role involves defining and designing SAP architectural solutions, managing project teams, and ensuring effective service delivery. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in ERP projects and a strong understanding of SAP methodologies. This remote position requires occasional travel to Italy.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience in architecting complex ERP projects.
• Complete understanding of SAP ACTIVATE methodology.
• Significant hands-on SAP experience in on-premise and cloud solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define, design, and deliver SAP architectural designs.
• Manage project team activities and deliverables.
• Analyze and gather business requirements from complex client environments.

Skills

SAP architecture

Project coordination

ERP project phases

English

Italian

Education

TOGAF Certification

Job description

Job title: SAP Technical Architect

Location : UK (Remote)

Type- Fixed Term Contract for 9 months

Client: Zensar

Fine to travel to Italy as 2-3 days once in every 2 weeks as per the customer requirement initially for 3 months and later on it will be once in a month travel

SAP Technical Architect: We need someone who has both the technical understanding of the SAP architecture and also an enterprise wide view of all the required areas to be addressed for a complex SAP program.

o Responsibilities

Define, Design and Deliver SAP Architectural designs

Define, Design and Drive the list of contracted (with SI) and must have documentation required for each phase and map to best practices from SAP

Develop overall solutions including high-level design (e.g.-Whiteboarding), statements of work (SOW), service design and bills of materials (BOM).

Contributes to service delivery and engineering effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing directives.

Analyze & gather business requirements from large & complex client environments and perform required research and investigation to identify and create thorough, accurate technical solution proposals based on client requirements.

- Overall coordination of all the assessment sub-streams (business process stream, technical architecture stream, change management stream, governance stream, SW vendor assessment, and negotiation stream)

- Manage and coordinate project team activities and deliverables

- Manage assessment plan, monitoring progress and reporting risks vs milestones

- Coordinate preparation and execution of planned workshops

- Coordinate vendors at a detailed level

- Ability in project coordination and strong support in presentation preparation at various stakeholder levels

- Manage issue list and escalate to leadership if necessary

o Skills / Experience Required

Total Exp – 15+ years

Experience in architecting complex ERP projects in big consumer companies

Complete understanding of the SAP ACTIVATE methodology with deliverables and best practices

Understanding of all ERP project phases and the required deliverables

Architectural understanding of SAP and ecosystem

TOGAF Preferable or Equivalent Certification is preferable

SDM experience is a plus but not must

SAP cloud deployments and migrations.

SAP architecture design.

Significant hands-on SAP experience in on premise and cloud solutions architecture.

Ability to independently conduct meetings with engineering-level, management-level or executive level customer personnel with regards to positioning solutions.

Good understanding of most of the SAP modules, integration options (PI/PO), BTP, CPI

Strong technical understanding of SAP , e.g. ABAP, Fiori and business processes,

o Other Requirements:

• Fluent in English; Italian is a plus

• Availability to travel at least once per month, for 2 or 3 days, to the customer headquarters (Parma, Italy)

• Should have no limitations to work in Europe as per project requirements

• Immediately available