Senior Enterprise Architect - SAP (CAO)

Synapxe; Queenstown; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SAP consultancy in Queenstown, New Zealand is seeking an experienced professional to lead their SAP Center of Excellence (COE). Responsibilities include driving digital transformation initiatives and implementing SAP solutions. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of SAP architecture experience, strong integration technology skills, and is comfortable collaborating with various business units to meet objectives.

Qualifications

• At least 8-10 years of hands-on experience with SAP architecture.
• Proven experience with SAP Integration technologies.
• Strong expertise in reporting solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of SAP COE excellence.
• Define and drive the SAP technical architecture roadmap.
• Collaborate with business clusters to define strategy.

Skills

SAP Solution architecture

Client-facing role

ABAP

Cloud technologies

Performance tuning

SAP Integration technologies

Security architecture

Education

Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field

Tools

SAP PI/PO

Fiori

SAP HANA

SAP NetWeaver

BTP

SAP BW

SAP Analytics Cloud

Job description

Leading the SAP Center of Excellence (COE) to drive digital transformation initiatives across the SAP application ecosystem to meet business objectives and accelerate enterprise-wide solutions

Role & Responsibilities

• Architecture and Solution: Proven experience in designing and implementing SAP solutions and driving digital transformation initiatives that align with business goals
• SAP Center of Excellence (COE): Lead the establishment of SAP COE excellence, defining governance frameworks and best practices across the SAP application landscape
• Strategic Collaboration: Collaborate with various business clusters to understand their challenges and define Strategy to achieve outcome or goal.
• SME Support: Provide technical SME input on end-to-end process, solutions and Technical/functional capabilities within SAP
• Cloud technology: Expertise in providing innovative solutions for cloud technologies and architecture, specializing in AWS and Azure
• Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Define & drive the SAP technical architecture roadmap aligned with business goals
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure all SAP solutions follow enterprise architecture standards, security and compliance
• Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate with various business clusters, Solution Governance team, Infrastructure, DevOps to understand their challenges and define Strategy to achieve outcome or goal.
• Innovation & Optimisation: Evaluate and implement emerging SAP technologies (e.g., AI/ML, Process Mining, Cloud Integrations) to improve efficiency

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field
• At least 8-10 years hands-on with SAP Solution architecture with client-facing role (at least 3-4 years in Fiori, SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver and BTP)
• Proven experience with SAP Integration technologies such as SAP PI/PO, BTP integration Suite, CPI, and API management.
• Strong experience in application technical skills such as ABAP, ODATA, and UI5/Fiori is preferred.
• Able to assist the team with performance fine-tuning and building robust applications.
• Working experience in building scalable applications with resilience in high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR).
• Experience with enterprise integration patterns and middleware solutions.
• Familiarity with security architecture and design such as OAuth, SAML, and SSL.
• Experience working with HANA Database Cloud, Datawarehouse on HANA, Performance Tuning, Data Tiering & Memory Management, HANA Cloud workload management, Identification of Long running queries and remediation, HANA Cloud parameters
• Strong expertise in working with reporting solutions such as SAP BW, Datasphere, or SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) includes the creation of models, stories, analytics applications, and row/column reports.
• Review and assess vendor proposed designs and solutions, and engage in the RFP and POC processes as necessary
• Expertise in developing High-Level Designs (HLDs) for SAP migrations from on-premises to public/private cloud environments, along with hands-on experience in migrating application infrastructure and data center (DC) migrations.
• Experience across all migration phases: discovery, assessment, presentation, planning, and execution.
• Is responsible for collaborating with the QA lead to ensure the quality of the deliverables