SAP Technical Architect

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The Cross Technology Technical Architect is a seasoned subject matter expert, responsible for specifying and designing solutions based on their technical expertise across one or more technology domains. This role takes responsibility for the successful overall technical design and build of the custom elements of the solution to meet a client’s business requirements.

What you'll be doing

Key Responsibilities:

• Select and apply appropriate design standards, methods and tools, consistent with the agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensure that these are effectively applied and adopted.
• Guide successful implementation and execution of system solutions.
• Provides detailed and specific advice regarding the application of their specialism(s) to the planning and operations processes.
• Contributes to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure or functional areas.
• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritization activities for small-scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Designs components using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.
• Provides pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing client requirements, in conjunction with the client’s current infrastructure, architecture, system capabilities and business challenges.
• Ensure technical solutions accomplish the client’s objectives.
• Work with Solutions Architects (SAs) to produce a technical specification for the solution’s custom development and systems integration requirements.
• Develop the technical design document to match the solution design specifications.
• Lead the scope of work determination, product pricing and RFP/RFI responses and assist with the decision to pursue or abort a deal.
• Manages client proof of concept (POC) initiatives, which require appropriation of appropriate resources, and setup and delivery of the POC.

Knowledge and Attributes:

• Demonstrate seasoned product knowledge integrated with seasoned technology understanding.
• Seasoned understanding of the vendor’s products, business and technology positioning.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written coupled with the ability to establish and create excellent client relationships with their technical expertise.
• Ability to develop and leverage their seasoned knowledge of reference architectures.
• Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.
• Seasoned knowledge in core frameworks used.
• Seasoned knowledge of the problem domain that their systems are to provide solutions for.
• Basic understanding of key vendor subscription models such as Cisco EA 3.0.

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science or information systems or a related field.
• Certification and working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture methodologies (for example, TOGAF, Zachman, SOA, ITIL, COBIT, etc.).
• Relevant vendor and industry certifications, for example, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle.
• Software and programming languages, for example, C++.
• SAFe Scaled Agile certification advantageous.

Required Experience:

• Seasoned track record as a developer and architect of new systems/solutions.
• Seasoned work experience working as a systems administrator or network engineer.
• Seasoned client engagement and development consulting experience.
• Seasoned experience managing expectations when balancing alternatives against business and financial constraints.
• Seasoned experience in a variety of architectures for specific domain or specialization.
• Seasoned experienced designer and development know-how.
• Seasoned project management experience ensuring timeous delivery of client solutions.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

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