Sap S/4hana Trade Compliance Solution Architect

Tata Consultancy Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage

Parental Leaves

401K Plan

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Charlotte, NC is seeking a senior SAP Trade Compliance lead to own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance and SAP GTS architecture. You will collaborate with Global Trade, Legal, Export Compliance, and IT stakeholders to design compliant, scalable solutions.

The role requires 10+ years of SAP experience, multiple SAP GTS implementations, and deep knowledge of international trade regulations such as ITAR, EAR, OFAC.

Qualifications

• 10+ years SAP experience with trade compliance and SAP GTS.
• Minimum two end-to-end SAP GTS implementations with solution architecture ownership.
• Experience with licensing, screening, and customs procedures.
• Strong knowledge of S/4HANA integration with GTS.
• Familiarity with ITAR, EAR, OFAC, BIS, EU dual-use controls.
• Experience with master data migration for GTS.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance and SAP GTS solution architecture.
• Lead fit-to-standard workshops with Global Trade, Legal, Export Compliance, Customs, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Security, and IT stakeholders.
• Define target architecture for screening, license management, customs management, and trade preference processing.
• Design integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS for partners, products, orders, deliveries, and finance.
• Define screening rules, thresholds, rescreening, and escalation workflows.
• Guide WRICEF, interfaces, and BTP designs while protecting clean-core objectives.
• Lead architecture reviews, testing, go-live, and hypercare.

Skills

SAP GTS

international trade compliance

SAP S/4HANA integration

sanctioned party list screening

embargo checks

customs management

product classification

preference processing

license management

regulatory content / global trade regs

EDI / interfaces

SAP Fiori / BTP integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SAP Fiori

SAP AIF

S/4HANA integration with GTS

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 10+ years of SAP experience with deep expertise in international trade compliance and SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS).
• Minimum two end-to-end SAP GTS implementations, including solution architecture ownership and integration with SAP S/4HANA.
• Expertise in sanctioned party list screening, embargo checks, import/export legal control, license determination, and document blocking and release.
• Strong experience with customs management for imports and exports, customs declarations, transit, special customs procedures, duty calculation, and customs authority communication.
• Experience with product classification including commodity codes, tariff numbers, export control classifications, license-relevance data, and country-specific attributes.
• Strong knowledge of preference processing, free trade agreements, rules of origin, supplier declarations, and preference determination.
• Experience integrating SAP S/4HANA sales, purchasing, delivery, billing, material, business partner, transportation, warehouse, and finance data with SAP GTS.
• Knowledge of ITAR, EAR, OFAC, BIS, EU dual-use controls, denied-party screening, and other global trade regulations relevant to a multinational manufacturer.
• Experience with screening-list and regulatory-content providers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, EDI, customs connections, and government interfaces.
• Experience with SAP Fiori, workflows, roles and authorizations, audit trails, APIs/interfaces, SAP AIF, output, analytics, and SAP BTP integration patterns.
• Experience with master-data migration, transactional migration, reconciliation, testing, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and legacy GTS transition or upgrade.
• Strong knowledge of SAP Activate, global template governance, clean-core principles, and complex global manufacturing transformation programs.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance and SAP GTS solution architecture for the program, aligned with enterprise architecture and the global process template.
• Lead fit-to-standard workshops with Global Trade, Legal, Export Compliance, Customs, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Security, and IT stakeholders.
• Define the target architecture for sanctioned party screening, embargo checking, import/export control, license management, customs management, and trade preference processing.
• Design integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS for business partners, products, sales orders, purchase orders, deliveries, billing, customs, transportation, and financial processes.
• Define screening rules, matching thresholds, periodic rescreening, blocked-document worklists, release controls, audit trails, and escalation workflows.
• Design product classification governance for commodity codes, tariff numbers, export control classifications, license relevance, and regulatory attributes.
• Define import and export license determination, quantity and value depreciation, validity controls, exception handling, and compliance evidence requirements.
• Design customs declaration, customs warehousing, foreign trade zone, transit, broker, authority-message, duty, and special-procedure processes as applicable.
• Define preference and origin processes, including agreements, bills of material, rules of origin, long-term supplier declarations, and preference statements.
• Assess legacy foreign-trade and GTS capabilities, define t ransition architecture, and lead master and transactional data migration and reconciliation.
• Guide WRICEF, interfaces, forms, workflows, security, analytics, Fiori, AIF, customs connections, and BTP designs while protecting clean-core objectives.
• Partner with SAP, legal and compliance teams, customs brokers, content providers, and vendors to resolve regulatory, product, and integration dependencies.
• Lead architecture reviews, end-to-end testing, defect resolution, mock cutovers, deployment readiness, go-live, and hypercare.
• Proactively identify regulatory and delivery risks, drive decisions, mentor teams, and communicate architecture recommendations to Helix leadership.

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Strong solution leadership, ownership, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex global trade regulations into scalable processes, controls, and SAP architecture.
• Ability to lead cross-functional business, functional, technical, data, integration, security, and change teams.
• Experience coordinating onshore and offshore teams, SAP, brokers, customs authorities, and regulatory-content providers.
• Strong governance, risk management, decision facilitation, conflict resolution, and escalation skills.
• Proactive approach to challenging unsupported customizations and driving compliant, sustainable, outcome-focused solutions.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $170,000 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.

Location

Charlotte, NC

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Functional Consultant

ID

432819

Skills

SAP Hana

Salary Range

$150,000 - $170,000

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE