Senior SAP Tech Architect - ABAP, BTP & BASIS Lead

Amazon

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 154,000 - 208,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon is seeking an experienced SAP Technical Solution Architect to lead architecture and engineering teams responsible for ABAP development, SAP BTP, and BASIS as part of a large-scale transformation of Amazon’s Finance ERP platform in Austin.

You will partner with ERP Product, Functional Solution Architecture, Engineering, Security, Controls, Infrastructure, SAP, and implementation partners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries
Experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead, or experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems
Deep expertise in ABAP development, SAP BTP, SAP BASIS, SAP integration, or SAP technical architecture

Responsibilities

Own the SAP technical architecture and engineering strategy across ABAP, BTP, BASIS, integrations, extensibility, and platform operations.
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of ABAP developers, BTP engineers, and BASIS professionals, establishing clear ownership, priorities, standards, and delivery expectations.
Define technical patterns and guardrails for SAP configuration, custom development, workflows, forms, reports, interfaces, conversions, enhancements, and extensions.
Establish and enforce clean-core principles, determining when requirements should be addressed through standard SAP functionality, in-app extensibility, side-by-side BTP extensions, or custom ABAP development.
Own the BTP architecture, including account and subaccount design, environments, connectivity, identity, security, application services, integration services, development standards, and lifecycle management.
Lead BASIS architecture and operational design across system landscapes, environments, transports, upgrades, patching, performance, capacity, availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and production support.
Establish software-development standards covering solution design, coding, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, source control, CI/CD, transport management, and release governance.
Partner with functional architects and product teams to convert business requirements into scalable technical designs and accurate delivery estimates.
Review and approve technical designs and ensure solutions meet requirements for performance, scalability, security, controls, resilience, supportability, and cost.
Develop technical roadmaps, architecture documents, decision materials, and executive updates that communicate priorities, risks, trade-offs, and required investments.
Evaluate emerging SAP and generative AI capabilities and identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, user experience, automation, monitoring, and support.