SAP Technical Architect

We are looking for SAP Technical Architect for Permanent to work with one of our leading client.

We need someone who has both the technical understanding of the SAP architecture and also an enterprise wide view of all the required areas to be addressed for a complex SAP program.

Responsibilities

• Define, Design and Deliver SAP Architectural designs
• Define, Design and Drive the list of contracted (with SI) and must have documentation required for each phase and map to best practices from SAP
• Develop overall solutions including high-level design (eg-Whiteboarding), statements of work (SOW), service design and bills of materials (BOM).
• Contributes to service delivery and engineering effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing directives.
• Analyze & gather business requirements from large & complex client environments and perform required research and investigation to identify and create thorough, accurate technical solution proposals based on client requirements.
• Overall coordination of all the assessment sub-streams (business process stream, technical architecture stream, change management stream, governance stream, SW vendor assessment, and negotiation stream)
• Manage and coordinate project team activities and deliverables
• Manage assessment plan, monitoring progress and reporting risks vs milestones
• Coordinate preparation and execution of planned workshops
• Coordinate vendors at a detailed level
• Ability in project coordination and strong support in presentation preparation at various stakeholder levels
• Manage issue list and escalate to leadership if necessary

Skills/Experience Required

• Total Exp - 15+ years
• Experience in architecting complex ERP projects in big consumer companies
• Complete understanding of the SAP ACTIVATE methodology with deliverables and best practices
• Understanding of all ERP project phases and the required deliverables
• Architectural understanding of SAP and ecosystem
• TOGAF Preferable or Equivalent Certification is preferable
• SDM experience is a plus but not must
• SAP cloud deployments and migrations.
• SAP architecture design.
• Significant hands-on SAP experience in on premise and cloud solutions architecture.
• Ability to independently conduct meetings with engineering-level, management-level or executive level customer personnel with regards to positioning solutions.
• Good understanding of most of the SAP modules, integration options (PI/PO), BTP, CPI
• Strong technical understanding of SAP, eg ABAP, Fiori and business processes

Other Requirements:

• Fluent in English; Italian is a plus
• Availability to travel at least once per month, for 2 or 3 days, to the customer headquarters (Parma, Italy)
• Should have no limitations to work in Europe as per project requirements