SAP Solution Architect

EY; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Johannesburg is seeking a Manager, Solutions Architect, SAP to join their Technology Consulting team. The role requires expertise in SAP S/4 HANA and significant business development experience. You will engage with clients, define solutions, and support SAP implementation projects with innovative designs. Candidates should have strong communication skills and a minimum of 10 years of experience.

Qualifications

• Experience in implementation RFPs as a solution architect.
• Minimum 3-4 years in business development, total 10-14 years experience.
• Ability to understand methodologies like Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to understand requirements and define solutions.
• Create innovative solution designs utilizing service offerings.
• Support the SAP implementation project as a solution architect.

Skills

Expertise in SAP S/4 HANA

SAP Certifications

Technical understanding of SAP S/4HANA cloud

Business development experience

Verbal and written communication skills

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a Manager, Solutions Architect, SAP to join our rapidly expanding Technology Consulting team.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate deep knowledge of SAP solutions and appropriate industries to maintain credibility with prospective customers. Provide proof points with relevant customer stories.
• Engaging with Clients in understanding their requirements, scoping, discovering and defining solutions, explaining business benefits and use cases and a roadmap to meet their goals.
• Creating innovative solution designs that utilize our extensive service offerings.
• Support the SAP implementation project and play solution architect role binding the entire solution to meet client requirements
• Have deep technical knowledge around the SAP landscape from a design and implementation perspective as well as understanding the integration architecture and roadmap development
• Participation in meetings with internal/external stakeholders (Delivery managers, Account managers and client partners) and Vertical & Horizontal teams.

Qualifications

• Expertise in SAP S/4 HANA and with relevant implementation experience
• SAP Certification(s)
• Deep technical understanding of SAP S/4HANA cloud service offerings with relevant implementation experience
• Experience in more than one of the functional workstream (FICO, SD, SF, EWM, TM, Ariba, Hybris, IBP)
• Worked on implementation RFP’s as a solution architect responsible for designing solutions end to end
• Prior business development experience (at least 3-4 years, overall 10-14 years) with exposure to SAP Delivery. A strong understanding of SAP and integration with other applications/systems in an IT landscape
• Strong verbal and written communication with out of box thinking abilities.
• Ability to understand Methodologies (Activate, Agile, SDLC, SCRUM) and other industry business fundamentals and ability to showcase a quick learning curve