SAP Solution Architect

Bridgestone - Global Capability Center; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgestone - Global Capability Center seeks a SAP Solution Architect to design end-to-end SAP capabilities across retail processes in Bengaluru. You will shape the target architecture for O2C, P2P and R2R, aligning FI/CO and SD workflows and guiding migrations to S/4HANA with BTP integrations.

You will mentor architects, govern development standards, and collaborate with SI partners to deliver scalable, sustainable SAP solutions in a global context.

Qualifications

• Experience designing end-to-end SAP architectures across O2C, P2P, R2R.
• Migration of legacy ERP to SAP S/4HANA with cloud extensions.
• Strong data governance and clean-core principles.
• Collaboration with system integrators and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the global SAP target architecture for enterprise processes.
• Drive cross-module integration between FI/CO and SD ensuring seamless workflows.
• Lead modernization using SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP for cloud-native extensions.
• Partner with executives, analysts and leads to translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions.
• Enforce SAP development standards and data governance across projects.
• Coordinate with external SI and vendors during deployment, testing and hyper-care.

Skills

Architecture design

Stakeholder management

Governance

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP BTP

ABAP

SAP Basis

Job description

SAP Solution Architect

The Solution Architect designs the overarching end-to-end business capabilities across the retail domain, orchestrating processes that span multiple modules in the planned SAP S/4 system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Blueprinting & Architecture: Define, design, and maintain the global SAP target architecture. Ensure end-to-end process integration across critical business cycles, including Order-to-Cash (O2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and Record-to-Report (R2R).
• Cross-Module Integration: Drive architectural alignment and seamless data flow between core modules, specifically SAP FI/CO, SD, ensuring zero siloed workflows.
• Technology Modernization: Lead the architectural strategy for legacy ERP migration to SAP S/4HANA, optimizing the use of SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform) for cloud-native extensions.
• Stakeholder Advisory: Partner closely with executive business leaders, business analysts, and functional leads to translate complex business objectives into scalable, sustainable SAP solutions.
• Governance & Standards: Establish and enforce SAP development best practices, data governance frameworks, and clean-core principles to minimize custom ABAP technical debt.
• Vendor & Partner Orchestration: Collaborate with external system integrators, SAP professionals, and third-party vendors during large-scale deployment, testing, and hyper-care phases.
• Architectural Orchestration: Lead, mentor, and govern a team of dedicated SAP Solution Architects and/or Subject Matter Experts (System Engineers) across specialized domains (such as SD, FI/CO).
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the ultimate escalation point and referee for cross-module integration disputes, ensuring that a decision made by the FI architect does not negatively impact the workflows of the SD architects.

Functional & Technical Scope

You will be expected to architect solutions that natively integrate the following domains:

• Finance & Controlling (FI/CO): New General Ledger, Asset Accounting, Accounts Payable/Receivable, Cost Center Accounting, Product Costing, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Supply Chain & Logistics (SD): Inventory Management, Purchasing, Pricing Procedures, Logistics Execution, Delivery, and Billing.
• Technical Foundation: SAP Basis, ABAP extensibility optimization, SAP Security/GRC, and API-led integration via SAP BTP.