Lead Architect

Ecolab; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to tackle meaningful challenges

Career growth support

Diverse work environment

Job summary

A global health and safety company is hiring a Principal Business Process Analyst with extensive experience in SAP Order-to-Cash. The role involves leading business analysis for SAP SD projects, driving alignment with stakeholders, and leveraging best practices for process optimization. Candidates should have over 15 years’ experience in SAP environments and a proven track record in mentoring teams. This position includes shaping business needs into clear functional requirements and supporting global transformations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SAP OTC / SD within SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA programs.
• Experience leading and mentoring business analysts.
• Proven experience owning requirements for complex initiatives.
• Experience leading and mentoring business analysts and/or guiding cross-functional teams through requirements and decision processes.
• Proven experience owning requirements for complex initiatives, including scope definition, traceability, and UAT support.
• S/4HANA experience (fit-to-standard, process harmonization, and migration/rollout support).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end business analysis for SAP SD / Order-to-Cash.
• Define and prioritize process and capability needs.
• Drive requirements elicitation and documentation.
• Provide thought leadership on OTC process optimization, SAP SD best practices, and fit-to-standard approaches.
• Support multi-country rollouts by gathering localization needs, validating process impacts, and coordinating country-specific requirement sign-offs.
• Ensure alignment to global process standards while supporting regional compliance, controls, and audit needs.
• Lead large OTC enhancements and initiatives across multiple geographies, owning scope definition, business case inputs, and value realization measures.
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams on solution options, integration impacts, data requirements, and deployment planning.
• Coordinate cross-functional requirements and dependencies across SAP modules and adjacent systems, including: Finance (FI), Materials Management (MM), Transportation Management (TM), Extended Warehouse Management (EWM).
• Serve as a trusted partner to business executives, product owners, IT leaders, and program sponsors to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Facilitate process and requirements workshops, playback sessions, and steering updates; clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and decisions.
• Translate business needs into scalable functional requirements, partnering with solution teams to ensure designs meet intended outcomes.
• Guide and mentor business analysts and functional team members on analysis methods, documentation standards, and stakeholder management.
• Drive continuous improvement of OTC analysis artifacts, templates, and best practices across the SAP practice.
• Support delivery excellence through strong traceability (requirements-to-design-to-test), UAT planning/execution support, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

SAP OTC

SAP SD

Business Analysis

Stakeholder management

Process optimization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related discipline

Tools

SAP ECC

S/4HANA

IDocs/APIs

Job description

Principal Business Process Analyst – SAP SD

Ecolab is looking for an experienced Principal Business Analyst with 15+ years of experience in SAP Order-to-Cash (OTC), with deep expertise in SAP SD, to join our OTC – Commercial practice. This role will be accountable for partnering with business and IT leaders to define business requirements, drive end-to-end process design, and ensure delivery of SAP ECC and S/4HANA-based OTC capabilities for global transformation programs.

What’s In It For You

• The opportunity to take on some of the world’s most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do

• Lead end-to-end business analysis for SAP SD / Order-to-Cash workstreams within large transformation programs (ECC and S/4HANA).
• Partner with business stakeholders to define and prioritize process and capability needs, aligned to business strategy and the broader IT landscape.
• Drive requirements elicitation and documentation (user stories, functional specifications, process flows), and establish clear acceptance criteria for delivered solutions.
• Provide thought leadership on OTC process optimization, SAP SD best practices, and fit-to-standard approaches.
• Support multi-country rollouts by gathering localization needs, validating process impacts, and coordinating country-specific requirement sign-offs.
• Ensure alignment to global process standards while supporting regional compliance, controls, and audit needs.
• Lead large OTC enhancements and initiatives across multiple geographies, owning scope definition, business case inputs, and value realization measures.
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams on solution options, integration impacts, data requirements, and deployment planning.
• Coordinate cross-functional requirements and dependencies across SAP modules and adjacent systems, including:
  • Finance (FI)
  • Materials Management (MM)
  • Transportation Management (TM)
  • Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
• Serve as a trusted partner to business executives, product owners, IT leaders, and program sponsors to drive alignment and decision-making.
• Facilitate process and requirements workshops, playback sessions, and steering updates; clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and decisions.
• Translate business needs into scalable functional requirements, partnering with solution teams to ensure designs meet intended outcomes.
• Guide and mentor business analysts and functional team members on analysis methods, documentation standards, and stakeholder management.
• Drive continuous improvement of OTC analysis artifacts, templates, and best practices across the SAP practice.
• Support delivery excellence through strong traceability (requirements-to-design-to-test), UAT planning/execution support, and knowledge sharing.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SAP OTC / SD within SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA programs (implementation and/or transformation).
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, or related discipline.
• 15+ years’ experience working in a global ERP environment, partnering with both business and IT teams.
• Experience leading and mentoring business analysts and/or guiding cross-functional teams through requirements and decision processes.
• Proven experience owning requirements for complex initiatives, including scope definition, traceability, and UAT support.
• S/4HANA experience (fit-to-standard, process harmonization, and migration/rollout support).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directly within a large ERP systems footprint in a global, multinational environment.
• Proven ability to understand business needs, build strategic partnerships, and translate them into clear requirements, process designs, and implemented solutions.
• Experience working with integrations (e.g., IDocs/APIs), including documenting interface requirements and validating end-to-end outcomes.
• Experience managing relationships with 3rd party vendors and teams.
• Able to successfully manage core responsibilities independently or with limited oversight.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organization skills.
• Ability to maintain critical thinking while balancing multiple tasks.
• Ability to work well within a team, focusing on building relationships with all project stakeholders.
• Proven ability of learning new skills, technologies, and passion for conveying knowledge.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance in all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.