Architect, SAP Business AI Platform

PowerToFly; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Flex My Way

Career Development

Benefits package

Culture & Values

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a SAP Business AI Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-driven solutions across ONESOURCE. You will shape how ONESOURCE connects to SAP's evolving AI platform and govern architecture across S/4HANA integrations and related components.

Role requires guiding teams, presenting to leadership, and balancing innovation with compliance. Hybrid work is offered with opportunities to influence enterprise tax technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Software Architect with a strong focus on AI and SAP integrations.
• Experience with SAP Business AI Platform components (BDC, BTP and Business AI Foundation).
• Ability to operate under enterprise governance and certification requirements.
• Familiarity with tax compliance frameworks is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration across technical and business audiences.
• Excellent communication skills for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and implementation of scalable AI platforms integrated with SAP systems, including S/4HANA.
• Define and evolve software architecture and development strategy for SAP Business AI initiatives.
• Manage cloud resources across BTP Cloud Foundry and related environments.
• Deliver technical presentations on platform strategy and integration architecture.
• Guide development teams through architectural decisions and AI-native SAP practices.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration across tax content, engineering, and product teams.
• Evaluate AI tooling choices against SAP certification constraints.
• Drive problem-solving on AI platform development and operational challenges.
• Track emerging technology and industry direction.

Skills

AI platform architecture

SAP integrations

S/4HANA

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cloud resources management

Architecture governance

Technical presentations

Problem solving

AI monitoring

Tools

SAP Knowledge Graph

Joule Studio

Agent Gateway

BDC

SAP BTP

Job description

Job Description

The Thomson Reuters SAP Integrations team is looking for a SAP Business AI Platform Architect to lead the design and delivery of AI-driven solutions across our ONESOURCE suite of tax and accounting solutions. This role sits at the intersection of enterprise tax technology and emerging agentic AI patterns, shaping how ONESOURCE products connect to SAP's evolving AI platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design and implementation of scalable AI platforms integrated with SAP systems, including S/4HANA, and SAP Business AI-based components (BDC, BTP and Business AI Foundation).
• Define and evolve software architecture and development strategy for SAP Business AI initiatives, factoring in SAP's Knowledge Graph, Joule Studio, and the broader SAP Business AI Platform direction.
• Manage cloud resources across BTP Cloud Foundry and adjacent environments to support AI platform operations at scale.
• Partner with tax product and compliance stakeholders to translate regulatory requirements, into technical solutions with clear project prioritization.
• Track emerging technology and industry direction, to identify where innovation is viable within SAP governance boundaries.
• Guide development teams through architectural decisions, building a culture where engineers grow into AI-native SAP development practices.
• Deliver technical presentations covering AI platform strategy and integration architecture to audiences ranging from engineering teams to senior leadership.
• Drive problem-solving on AI platform development and operational challenges, e.g anomaly detection, monitoring, and drift in tax logic or determination accuracy.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration among tax content, engineering, and product teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Apply sound decision-making and a research-driven mindset to evaluate AI tooling choices, including MCP-based patterns, against SAP's certification and compliance constraints.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations across ONESOURCE release cycles and hyper care commitments.

Required Qualifications, and Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Software Architect with a strong focus on AI and SAP integrations, ideally SAP Business AI Platform components (BDC, BTP and Business AI Foundation).
• Working knowledge of SAP's AI ecosystem, including BTP, Joule Studio, and Agent Gateway concepts, or a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in this space.
• Exceptional skills in software architecture and development strategy, with comfort operating under enterprise governance and certification requirements.
• Familiarity with tax compliance frameworks is a plus, though not required.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills across technical and business audiences.
• Solid judgment in project prioritization and technical decision-making, particularly when weighing innovation against compliance constraints.
• A research-oriented mindset with genuine interest in emerging AI tooling and continuous learning.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking abilities, especially around AI monitoring, anomaly detection, and operational reliability.
• Demonstrated experience tracking industry trends and applying them to real architectural decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to deliver clear technical presentations to senior stakeholders.
• Leadership presence capable of influencing without direct authority across cross-functional teams.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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