We are looking for a strong SAP MM Architect with S/4HANA experience and deep Material Master expertise and experience working across PLM, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, or High-Tech Industrial environments.
This is a solution architecture and functional leadership role focused on enterprise-wide Material Master architecture, business-process impact, integrations, and solution design.
Title: SAP MM Architect with S/4HANA experience
Location: Fremont, CA (Onsite and need to be local)
Primary Objective: The resource will be responsible for providing solution architecture and functional leadership for Material Master across the enterprise. The person must understand how Material Master impacts end-to-end business processes and be able to assess the downstream impact of any business, process, data-model, or system change.
This is primarily an architecture and solution-design role, not a data migration or pure SAP MDG role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and provide solution architecture for SAP Material Master in an SAP S/4HANA environment.
- Have strong end-to-end understanding of Material Master and its impact across:
- Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
- Order-to-Cash (O2C)
- Source-to-Pay / Sourcing
- Manufacturing
- Planning/MRP
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain
- Finance and other downstream processes
- Analyze new business requirements and immediately determine:
- What changes are required to Material Master.
- Which business processes will be impacted.
- Which applications/interfaces will be affected.
- What downstream dependencies exist.
- What architectural changes are required.
- Define and evaluate Material Master data models, processes, integrations, and interfaces.
- Assess the enterprise-wide impact before approving or recommending architectural changes.
- Understand Material Master integration with PLM systems, particularly Teamcenter or similar PLM platforms.
- Understand how Material Master data flows from PLM to SAP S/4HANA.
- Analyze integration architecture, interfaces, data flows, and potential challenges between PLM and SAP.
- Work with SAP, PLM, business, integration, and application teams to identify the appropriate solution.
- Provide architectural guidance and best-practice recommendations to business and technical teams.
- Support implementation teams by translating business requirements into practical SAP Material Master solutions.Help establish and standardize Material Master governance and operating processes as part of the centralized data organization.
- Work directly with existing business users to improve their understanding and usage of Material Master.
- Train and educate business users on Material Master processes, standards, and best practices.
- Provide technical/functional leadership while helping the organization move toward a centralized Material Master operating model.
Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills:
SAP:
- Strong SAP MM experience.
- Strong SAP S/4HANA experience.
- Deep expertise in Material Master.
- Strong understanding of Material Master configuration, data model, processes, and dependencies.
- Ability to perform end-to-end impact analysis for Material Master changes.
- Strong understanding of SAP integration with other enterprise applications.
PLM / Integration:
- Experience working with PLM systems.
- Understanding of PLM-to-SAP Material Master integration.
- Teamcenter experience is highly desirable, but Teamcenter is not mandatory.
- Ability to understand data/interface flows between PLM and SAP.
- Experience analyzing integration points, interfaces, data mapping, and integration challenges.
- Solution architecture experience rather than only functional execution.
- Ability to understand the enterprise-wide impact of architectural decisions.
- Experience defining solution options and recommending the appropriate architecture.
- Ability to connect business requirements, Material Master, SAP, PLM, and downstream systems.