Lead SAP Platform Architect: ABAP, BTP & BASIS

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Solution Architect to lead architecture and engineering for ABAP development, SAP BTP, and SAP BASIS as part of a large-scale Finance ERP transformation. You will guide a team and set standards for secure, scalable, and maintainable SAP environments.

You will partner with ERP Product, Functional Solution Architecture, Engineering, Security, Controls, Infrastructure, SAP, and implementation partners to translate business needs into technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.
• Experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead in large-scale systems.
• Deep expertise in ABAP development, SAP BTP, BASIS, integration, or SAP technical architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the SAP technical architecture and engineering strategy across ABAP, BTP, BASIS, integrations, extensibility, and platform operations.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of ABAP developers, BTP engineers, and BASIS professionals, establishing clear ownership, priorities, standards, and delivery expectations.
• Define technical patterns and guardrails for SAP configuration, custom development, workflows, forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and extensions.
• Establish and enforce clean-core principles, determining when requirements should be addressed through standard SAP functionality, in-app extensibility, side-by-side BTP extensions, or custom ABAP development.
• Own the BTP architecture, including account and sub-account design, environments, connectivity, identity, security, application services, integration services, development standards, and lifecycle management.
• Lead BASIS architecture and operational design across system landscapes, environments, transports, upgrades, patching, performance, capacity, availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and production support.
• Establish software-development standards covering solution design, coding, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, source control, CI/CD, transport management, and release governance.
• Partner with functional architects and product teams to convert business requirements into scalable technical designs and accurate delivery estimates.
• Review and approve technical designs and ensure solutions meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, controls, resilience, supportability, and cost.
• Develop technical roadmaps, architecture documents, decision materials, and executive updates that communicate priorities, risks, trade-offs, and required investments.
• Evaluate emerging SAP and generative AI capabilities and identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, user experience, automation, monitoring, and support.

Skills

ABAP development

SAP BTP

SAP BASIS

SAP integration

SAP technical architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Solution Architect to lead architecture and engineering for ABAP development, SAP BTP, and SAP BASIS as part of a large-scale Finance ERP transformation. You will guide a team and set standards for secure, scalable, and maintainable SAP environments.

You will partner with ERP Product, Functional Solution Architecture, Engineering, Security, Controls, Infrastructure, SAP, and implementation partners to translate business needs into technical