SAP Architect

Staffing Spot, Inc.; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffing Spot, Inc. is seeking an experienced IT Architect with a focus on SAP-driven architecture and modernization. You will lead design efforts across application, data, security, and integration, ensuring solutions align with enterprise goals and IT strategy.

You will collaborate with product owners, security, and operations to deliver scalable SAP-enabled platforms while mitigating risks and ensuring compliance. This role requires strong governance and cross-functional influence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience in a large, complex environment.
• 7+ years of solution architecture leading end-to-end design and delivery.
• 5+ years of SAP architecture / SAP solution delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to satisfy business outcomes and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, resiliency, maintainability).
• Lead and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure considerations.
• Ensure delivered solutions are operationally supportable and assimilated into production support models with limited risk.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through design enhancements, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
• Review and approve project designs for compliance with architecture standards, and track/manage exceptions as needed.
• Assess, report, and recommend mitigations for technology, integration, and operational risks within the SAP domain and adjacent platforms.
• Ensure regulatory, audit, and security compliance for new and existing solutions.
• Contribute to and evolve architecture patterns and standards (integration patterns, security patterns, data patterns, environment strategy, and operational readiness criteria).
• Translate solution intent into integrated designs across SAP, integration middleware, data platforms, identity/security, and external systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with product owners, engineering leads, security, infrastructure, and operations to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and constraints.
• Work with vendors and system integrators for service delivery, solution quality and evaluation of technology options.
• Contribute to domain roadmaps and input into broader technology roadmaps, ensuring SAP solutions align with architectural direction and IT strategy.
• Help improve overall application landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities within the SAP ecosystem.

Skills

Architecture

SAP

Modernization

Design

Integration

Security

Application

Job description

• Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to satisfy business outcomes and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, resiliency, maintainability).
• Lead and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure considerations.
• Ensure delivered solutions are operationally supportable and assimilated into production support models with limited risk.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through design enhancements, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
• Review and approve project designs for compliance with architecture standards, and track/manage exceptions as needed.
• Assess, report, and recommend mitigations for technology, integration, and operational risks within the SAP domain and adjacent platforms.
• Ensure regulatory, audit, and security compliance for new and existing solutions.
• Contribute to and evolve architecture patterns and standards (integration patterns, security patterns, data patterns, environment strategy, and operational readiness criteria).
• Translate solution intent into integrated designs across SAP, integration middleware, data platforms, identity/security, and external systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with product owners, engineering leads, security, infrastructure, and operations to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and constraints.
• Work with vendors and system integrators for service delivery, solution quality and evaluation of technology options.
• Contribute to domain roadmaps and input into broader technology roadmaps, ensuring SAP solutions align with architectural direction and IT strategy.
• Help improve overall application landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities within the SAP ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-level and detailed architecture and technical designs to satisfy business outcomes and non-functional requirements (availability, performance, resiliency, maintainability).
• Lead and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure considerations.
• Ensure delivered solutions are operationally supportable and assimilated into production support models with limited risk.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation through design enhancements, modernization, and technical debt reduction.
• Review and approve project designs for compliance with architecture standards, and track/manage exceptions as needed.
• Assess, report, and recommend mitigations for technology, integration, and operational risks within the SAP domain and adjacent platforms.
• Ensure regulatory, audit, and security compliance for new and existing solutions.
• Contribute to and evolve architecture patterns and standards (integration patterns, security patterns, data patterns, environment strategy, and operational readiness criteria).
• Translate solution intent into integrated designs across SAP, integration middleware, data platforms, identity/security, and external systems.
• Partner cross-functionally with product owners, engineering leads, security, infrastructure, and operations to ensure solutions align with enterprise direction and constraints.
• Work with vendors and system integrators for service delivery, solution quality and evaluation of technology options.
• Contribute to domain roadmaps and input into broader technology roadmaps, ensuring SAP solutions align with architectural direction and IT strategy.
• Help improve overall application landscape health by identifying redundancies, integration risks, and modernization opportunities within the SAP ecosystem.

Requirements

• 10+ years of IT experience in a large, complex environment (nationally or globally distributed preferred).
• 7+ years of solution architecture experience leading end-to-end solution design and delivery across application, integration, data, and security concerns.
• 5+ years of SAP architecture / SAP solution delivery experience, with demonstrated responsibility for solution integrity across multiple workstreams (implementation, integration, security, data, operations).
• Architecture experience supporting SAP-centric business capabilities such as Plant Maintenance / Work Management / Asset Management, and related processes.
• Experience with SAP integrations and patterns (e.g., APIs, events, batch/file, middleware-enabled integrations) and cross-platform coordination.
• Exposure to SAP platform modernization approaches (e.g., ECC-to-S/4 transition planning, integration modernization).
• Experience operating in architecture governance forums (e.g., architecture review boards), managing standards compliance and exception processes.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and practices (e.g., TOGAF), and ability to use them pragmatically to guide decisions.
• Ability to assess and improve application landscape health (identify redundancies, integration risks, and cost/risk reduction opportunities).
• Demonstrated experience delivering solutions through the full SDLC (requirements, design, build, test, deployment, operational readiness).
• Strong working knowledge across core architecture domains: software, data, integration, infrastructure/hosting models, and security.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction on large-scale programs/projects, influence across teams, and drive architectural decisions to closure.

Skills: architecture,sap,modernization,design,integration,security,application