Job Title : SAP IS-U / CIS Solution Architect
Duration: 12 months+ (part of a 4-5 year project)
Rate: Up to $130/hr on Vendor W2
Location: Hybrid highly preferred- in Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO. If candidate is only open to remote, please still send. They may open this up to remote if needed.
Must be expert in SAP IS-U.
Project Architect – III
(CIS Solution Architect)
Role Overview
Customer is undertaking a major CIS modernization initiative, transitioning from a 25-year-old legacy billing system to SAP S/4 HANA for Utilities (IS-U) and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud for our Call Center and CRM capabilities. This is a multi-year (4-5), high-visibility program. The CIS Solution Architect will design and govern end-to-end solutions across SAP, SF, and other Energy enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with Energy Architecture Tenets and SAP Clean Core principles. The role expects a solid architecture background and methodology including multiple experiences solutioning across complex hybrid cloud and on-premise landscapes and the application of strong architectural principles. Experience with SAP S/4 functionality and technologies, integration via SAP BTP, SAP Data platforms (BDC), Salesforce, and AWS are preferred.
Project Context
- CIS Modernization Program – multi-year, multi-million-dollar initiative
- Transition from legacy customer information system to SAP S/4 HANA Utilities and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud
- Expected duration: 5 years; initial engagement as contractor with potential for conversion
- Work as part of the Energy Architecture team on the CIS effort.
- Blueprinting, solution architecture, governance, and implementation validation
Work Model & Location
- Hybrid: Onsite Tuesday–Thursday; remote other days
- Preferred locations: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO
- Some travel required (quarterly)
- Core hours: 9 AM – 4 PM CST; 40-hour work week
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain end-to-end solution architecture for key financial, payment and collections end to end business processes across enterprise systems including SAP S/4, Salesforce and supporting systems
- Minimize customizations and enforce Clean Core principles
- Identify new technology capabilities or patterns that might be required and align with architecture tenets and guidelines
- Govern standards and best practices, minimizing customization
- Lead design and implementation ensuring development aligns with proposed architecture
- Collaborate with functional and technical teams
- Ensure resiliency, scalability, security, and performance
- Conduct architecture reviews and present at architecture review boards
- Validate implementation against design
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years Architecture experience
- 2+ years SAP S/4 HANA Utilities (IS-U)
- 2+ years SAP BTP and Integration Suite
- 4+ years AWS experience
- Expertise in enterprise level solution architecture across multiple systems including hybrid scenarios
- Strong architectural governance experience and solutioning skills
Technical Skills
- Integration and Data architecture skills (SAP BTP, AWS, IBM ACE preferred)
- Cloud / Hybrid Architecture solutioning (AWS preferred)
- Solutioning end to end architecture across complex ecosystems.
- Architecture solutioning including drafting options and providing a recommendation
- Strong understanding of security, scalability, observability, resiliency and performance design
Non-Technical Skills
- Clear articulation of complex technical concepts to leaders, stakeholder management and technical teams
- Strong business acumen to align architectural decisions with strategic goals
- Independent, accountable, and collaborative
- Comfortable working across teams and vendors