SAP Technical Architect

NextEra; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra is seeking a highly experienced SAP Technical Architect to lead the design and execution of enterprise SAP landscapes in Riyadh. You will shape the SAP technical strategy, ensuring scalable, secure, and highly available environments across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments.

You will drive architecture governance, mentor teams, and guide complex S/4HANA, HANA, BTP, and integration initiatives while partnering with stakeholders to enable modernization programs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of SAP technical consulting, infrastructure, Basis, and/or architecture experience.
• Proven experience as SAP Technical Architect / Basis / Solution Architect in enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering multiple full lifecycle SAP implementations or transformations.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the SAP technical architecture roadmap aligned with business and IT strategies.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient SAP landscapes across on‑premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish SAP standards, principles and best practices.

Skills

SAP Technical Architecture

SAP Basis

S/4HANA

HANA

Cloud platforms

Security & Compliance

High Availability

Performance tuning

Integration architecture

API management

Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

Tools

SAP Integration Suite

PI/PO

CPI

REST APIs

SOAP services

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced SAP Technical Architect with 15+ years of experience in architecting, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale SAP landscapes.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in SAP Technical Architecture, SAP Basis, SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP BTP, cloud platforms, enterprise integrations, security, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.

The SAP Technical Architect will define and drive the overall SAP technical strategy, ensuring that SAP environments are scalable, secure, highly available, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Architecture & Strategy

• Define and maintain the SAP technical architecture roadmap aligned with business and IT strategies.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available SAP landscapes across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Lead architecture reviews and establish SAP technical standards, principles, and best practices.
• Define target-state architecture for SAP transformation and modernization programs.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout the SAP solution lifecycle.
• Architect solutions across SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP HANA, SAP BTP, and related SAP technology platforms.
• Design SAP landscapes covering Development, QA, Pre-Production, Production, DR, and Sandbox environments.
• Define system sizing, capacity planning, performance tuning, scalability, and high-availability architecture.
• Lead SAP cloud adoption and migration strategies across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, OCI, and SAP RISE environments.
• Support SAP S/4HANA migration, transformation, and modernization programs.
• Design enterprise integration architecture using SAP Integration Suite, SAP PI/PO, SAP CPI, REST APIs, SOAP services, and middleware platforms.
• Define integration patterns between SAP and third-party enterprise applications.
• Establish API management, interface standards, monitoring, and integration governance.
• Ensure reliable and secure data exchange across SAP and non-SAP platforms.

SAP Basis & Infrastructure

• Provide architecture-level leadership for SAP Basis administration and landscape management.
• Define strategies for system refreshes, transport management, patching, upgrades, migrations, and maintenance.
• Lead SAP kernel upgrades, database migrations, platform modernization, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Define backup, recovery, business continuity, and disaster recovery architectures.

Security & Compliance

• Design SAP security architecture aligned with enterprise security policies and standards.
• Define authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, and identity integration frameworks.
• Ensure SAP technical environments meet applicable security, regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Support vulnerability assessments, security reviews, remediation, and risk mitigation activities.

Performance, Availability & Resilience

• Establish monitoring, observability, and operational performance strategies for SAP environments.
• Lead performance optimization initiatives across SAP applications, HANA databases, and supporting infrastructure.
• Define and maintain appropriate SLA, RTO, and RPO requirements.
• Architect high-availability and disaster recovery solutions for business-critical SAP systems.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Provide technical architecture leadership across SAP programs, projects, migrations, and transformation initiatives.
• Mentor and guide SAP Basis, integration, development, cloud, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Review technical designs, architecture documents, implementation plans, migration strategies, and solution deliverables.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, enterprise architects, business teams, technology partners, and SAP vendors.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of SAP technical consulting, infrastructure, Basis, and/or architecture experience.
• Proven experience working as an SAP Technical Architect / SAP Basis Architect / SAP Solution Architect in enterprise environments.
• Experience delivering at least 5 full lifecycle SAP implementations or transformation programs.
• Strong hands-on and architectural expertise in SAP Basis, SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, cloud migration, integrations, HA, and DR.
• Strong experience with SAP S/4HANA migration and modernization programs.
• Experience designing complex enterprise SAP landscapes across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, security, networking, database, integration, and infrastructure concepts.
• Excellent stakeholder management, technical leadership, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Certifications