SAP S/4HANA Technical Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual incentive

Medical coverage

Parental leaves

401K plan

Certification reimbursement

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Charlotte, NC seeks an Onsite SAP Technical Architect to lead end-to-end SAP S/4HANA transformation efforts. You will head Basis, Security, testing, and the integrated toolchain, aligning with clean-core standards and enterprise templates.

You will coordinate onshore/offshore teams, define landscape strategy, drive governance, and ensure delivery of high-availability architectures across development through production landscapes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of SAP technology experience in global programs.
• Minimum three end-to-end SAP implementations with technical architecture responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end SAP technical architecture for Helix program.
• Lead SAP Basis, Testing, Security, and toolchain workstreams.
• Define target SAP landscape architecture and environment strategy.
• Govern architecture standards, roadmaps, and non-functional requirements.
• Mentor technical leads and coordinate onshore/offshore teams.

Skills

S/4HANA Transformation

SAP Basis Architecture

SAP Security Architecture

SAP Testing Leadership

SAP Toolchain (Signavio/LeanIX/CloudAL

SAP Activate Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Tricentis

Worksoft

SAP Signavio

SAP LeanIX

SAP Cloud ALM

Job description

• 15+ years of SAP technology experience with architecture leadership on large, global SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Minimum three end-to-end SAP implementations, including technical architecture responsibility for at least one SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP program.
• Deep expertise in SAP Basis architecture, landscape design, sizing, high availability, disaster recovery, system copies, refreshes, upgrades, patching, transports, performance, and operations.
• Experience directing SAP environments across development, quality, test, training, pre-production, production, and disaster-recovery landscapes.
• Strong knowledge of SAP HANA, S/4HANA, Fiori, Web Dispatcher, SAP Cloud Connector, SAP BTP connectivity, identity services, interfaces, and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Experience leading SAP Security architecture covering roles and authorizations, Fiori catalogs and spaces, business roles, privileged access, emergency access, segregation of duties, and audit controls.
• Experience leading enterprise SAP testing across functional, integration, regression, automation, performance, security, data, cutover, and operational-readiness testing.
• Knowledge of test-management and automation tools such as Tricentis, Worksoft, or equivalent, with integration to the program delivery toolchain.
• Strong experience defining and governing the SAP integrated toolchain, including SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, SAP Cloud ALM, and related requirements, testing, deployment, monitoring, and architecture repositories.
• Experience designing tool integrations, common taxonomy, metadata governance, traceability, access controls, reporting, dashboards, and lifecycle ownership across the transformation toolchain.
• Experience with SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations, including projects, requirements, tasks, testing, deployment, integration monitoring, job monitoring, health monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with architecture standards, technical design reviews, clean-core governance, extensibility patterns, non-functional requirements, cybersecurity, and technical risk management.
• Experience leading onshore and offshore Basis, Testing, Security, platform, and toolchain teams, including vendor and SAP coordination.
• Strong understanding of SAP Activate, release and transport governance, DevSecOps principles, IT service management, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to operations.
• Own the end-to-end SAP technical architecture for the Helix program and serve as the onsite technical leadership focal point in Charlotte, NC.
• Lead the SAP Basis, SAP Testing, SAP Security, and SAP integrated toolchain workstreams, establishing priorities, governance, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Define the target SAP landscape architecture, environment strategy, sizing, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational model.
• Create and govern technical architecture standards, roadmaps, non-functional requirements, architecture decisions, design patterns, and technical-debt controls.
• Lead Basis planning and execution for provisioning, builds, upgrades, patching, client strategy, system copies, refreshes, transport routes, performance tuning, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Own the integrated environment calendar and coordinate environment demand, releases, test cycles, data refreshes, maintenance windows, and deployment activities across ARTs.
• Define the SAP security architecture and governance model for roles, authorization concepts, Fiori access, privileged access, segregation of duties, audit evidence, and identity integration.
• Provide governance and oversight for the end-to-end test strategy, test environments, test data, automation, defect management, performance testing, security testing, entry and exit criteria, and reporting.
• Define and govern the integrated transformation toolchain using SAP Signavio for business-process design, SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture, and SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations.
• Establish common process, application, requirement, test, deployment, and architecture traceability across Signavio, LeanIX, Cloud ALM, and other approved engineering tools.
• Coordinate tool onboarding, tenant and workspace strategy, integrations, authentication, authorization, metadata standards, data synchronization, support ownership, and adoption.
• Partner with functional, integration, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, release, cutover, and business teams to resolve cross-workstream technical dependencies and risks.
• Lead technical design authority meetings, review solution proposals, challenge unnecessary customization, and ensure alignment with clean-core and enterprise standards.
• Drive technical readiness assessments for SIT, UAT, performance testing, dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, hypercare, disaster recovery, and transition to steady-state support.
• Manage technical risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, budget and resource needs; provide concise status, recovery plans, and leadership asks to Helix management.
• Mentor technical leads, hold teams and vendors accountable for delivery quality, and proactively engage stakeholders to drive decisions and outcomes.

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 15+ years of SAP technology experience with architecture leadership on large, global SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Minimum three end-to-end SAP implementations, including technical architecture responsibility for at least one SAP S/4HANA or RISE with SAP program.
• Deep expertise in SAP Basis architecture, landscape design, sizing, high availability, disaster recovery, system copies, refreshes, upgrades, patching, transports, performance, and operations.
• Experience directing SAP environments across development, quality, test, training, pre-production, production, and disaster-recovery landscapes.
• Strong knowledge of SAP HANA, S/4HANA, Fiori, Web Dispatcher, SAP Cloud Connector, SAP BTP connectivity, identity services, interfaces, and hybrid cloud architecture.
• Experience leading SAP Security architecture covering roles and authorizations, Fiori catalogs and spaces, business roles, privileged access, emergency access, segregation of duties, and audit controls.
• Experience leading enterprise SAP testing across functional, integration, regression, automation, performance, security, data, cutover, and operational-readiness testing.
• Knowledge of test-management and automation tools such as Tricentis, Worksoft, or equivalent, with integration to the program delivery toolchain.
• Strong experience defining and governing the SAP integrated toolchain, including SAP Signavio, SAP LeanIX, SAP Cloud ALM, and related requirements, testing, deployment, monitoring, and architecture repositories.
• Experience designing tool integrations, common taxonomy, metadata governance, traceability, access controls, reporting, dashboards, and lifecycle ownership across the transformation toolchain.
• Experience with SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations, including projects, requirements, tasks, testing, deployment, integration monitoring, job monitoring, health monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience with architecture standards, technical design reviews, clean-core governance, extensibility patterns, non-functional requirements, cybersecurity, and technical risk management.
• Experience leading onshore and offshore Basis, Testing, Security, platform, and toolchain teams, including vendor and SAP coordination.
• Strong understanding of SAP Activate, release and transport governance, DevSecOps principles, IT service management, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to operations.
• Own the end-to-end SAP technical architecture for the Helix program and serve as the onsite technical leadership focal point in Charlotte, NC.
• Lead the SAP Basis, SAP Testing, SAP Security, and SAP integrated toolchain workstreams, establishing priorities, governance, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Define the target SAP landscape architecture, environment strategy, sizing, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational model.
• Create and govern technical architecture standards, roadmaps, non-functional requirements, architecture decisions, design patterns, and technical-debt controls.
• Lead Basis planning and execution for provisioning, builds, upgrades, patching, client strategy, system copies, refreshes, transport routes, performance tuning, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Own the integrated environment calendar and coordinate environment demand, releases, test cycles, data refreshes, maintenance windows, and deployment activities across ARTs.
• Define the SAP security architecture and governance model for roles, authorization concepts, Fiori access, privileged access, segregation of duties, audit evidence, and identity integration.
• Provide governance and oversight for the end-to-end test strategy, test environments, test data, automation, defect management, performance testing, security testing, entry and exit criteria, and reporting.
• Define and govern the integrated transformation toolchain using SAP Signavio for business-process design, SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture, and SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations.
• Establish common process, application, requirement, test, deployment, and architecture traceability across Signavio, LeanIX, Cloud ALM, and other approved engineering tools.
• Coordinate tool onboarding, tenant and workspace strategy, integrations, authentication, authorization, metadata standards, data synchronization, support ownership, and adoption.
• Partner with functional, integration, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, release, cutover, and business teams to resolve cross-workstream technical dependencies and risks.
• Lead technical design authority meetings, review solution proposals, challenge unnecessary customization, and ensure alignment with clean-core and enterprise standards.
• Drive technical readiness assessments for SIT, UAT, performance testing, dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, hypercare, disaster recovery, and transition to steady-state support.
• Manage technical risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, budget and resource needs; provide concise status, recovery plans, and leadership asks to Helix management.
• Mentor technical leads, hold teams and vendors accountable for delivery quality, and proactively engage stakeholders to drive decisions and outcomes.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end SAP technical architecture for the Helix program and serve as the onsite technical leadership focal point in Charlotte, NC.
• Lead the SAP Basis, SAP Testing, SAP Security, and SAP integrated toolchain workstreams, establishing priorities, governance, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Define the target SAP landscape architecture, environment strategy, sizing, availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational model.
• Create and govern technical architecture standards, roadmaps, non-functional requirements, architecture decisions, design patterns, and technical-debt controls.
• Lead Basis planning and execution for provisioning, builds, upgrades, patching, client strategy, system copies, refreshes, transport routes, performance tuning, monitoring, and production readiness.
• Own the integrated environment calendar and coordinate environment demand, releases, test cycles, data refreshes, maintenance windows, and deployment activities across ARTs.
• Define the SAP security architecture and governance model for roles, authorization concepts, Fiori access, privileged access, segregation of duties, audit evidence, and identity integration.
• Provide governance and oversight for the end-to-end test strategy, test environments, test data, automation, defect management, performance testing, security testing, entry and exit criteria, and reporting.
• Define and govern the integrated transformation toolchain using SAP Signavio for business-process design, SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture, and SAP Cloud ALM for implementation and operations.
• Establish common process, application, requirement, test, deployment, and architecture traceability across Signavio, LeanIX, Cloud ALM, and other approved engineering tools.
• Coordinate tool onboarding, tenant and workspace strategy, integrations, authentication, authorization, metadata standards, data synchronization, support ownership, and adoption.
• Partner with functional, integration, data, infrastructure, cybersecurity, release, cutover, and business teams to resolve cross-workstream technical dependencies and risks.
• Lead technical design authority meetings, review solution proposals, challenge unnecessary customization, and ensure alignment with clean-core and enterprise standards.
• Drive technical readiness assessments for SIT, UAT, performance testing, dress rehearsals, cutover, go-live, hypercare, disaster recovery, and transition to steady-state support.
• Manage technical risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, budget and resource needs; provide concise status, recovery plans, and leadership asks to Helix management.
• Mentor technical leads, hold teams and vendors accountable for delivery quality, and proactively engage stakeholders to drive decisions and outcomes.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Executive presence with strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to lead multiple technical workstreams and coordinate senior onshore, offshore, SAP, partner, and vendor resources.
• Strong project tracking, resource planning, dependency management, risk management, financial awareness, and delivery-governance capabilities.
• Ability to translate technical risks and architecture decisions into clear business, cost, schedule, security, and operational impacts.
• Proactive ownership mindset; able to challenge teams constructively, remove blockers, and drive closure rather than only report status.
• Ability to work onsite in Charlotte, NC and collaborate directly with program leadership, business stakeholders, and delivery teams.

Salary Range: $160,000 - $180,000 a year

TCS Employee Benefits Summary

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Auto & Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Financial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

Qualifications:

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE