E-Invoicing Product Architect

Context & Strategic Ambition

We are embarking on a strategic transformation to establish a brand-new, world-class global E-Invoicing Centre of Expertise (COE). This COE is charged with governing, architecting, and executing our technology strategy to meet rapidly evolving global e-invoicing, digital reporting, and continuous transaction control (CTC) mandates.

As a key initial hire into the core e-invoicing leadership team, the E-Invoicing Product Architect will have a defining influence on our technical landscape. This individual will establish the foundational technology solution architecture, blueprints, and integration roadmaps for our global e-invoicing platform and its touchpoints with core enterprise systems. The scope spans across critical business cycles including Order to Cash (O2C) , Invoice to Pay (I2P) , and Record to Report (R2R) .

Crucially, the successful candidate will design a scalable, resilient core architecture supporting both initial implementations and future country rollouts, ensuring rapid adaptability as international tax laws and digital requirements change.

Core Accountabilities

The E-Invoicing Product Architect holds ultimate accountability for the technological integrity, scalability, and compliance of our global e-invoicing ecosystem. The core accountabilities include:

• Global Technology Architecture Definition: Establish, maintain, and own the end-to-end global e-invoicing technical architecture, ensuring alignment with corporate enterprise architecture standards, security frameworks, and business objectives.
• Process Integration & Alignment: Ensure seamless technical and data flow integration across three critical finance process streams:
• Order to Cash (O2C): Outbound billing, digital signature application, government clearance validation, and customer distribution.
• Invoice to Pay (I2P): Inbound receipt, government validation, automated matching, and posting into Accounts Payable systems.
• Record to Report (R2R): Tax reporting ledger alignment, continuous transaction control compliance, and audit trail retention.
• Scalability & Future-Proofing: Design a flexible "Global Template" architecture that allows for localized compliance variations without fracturing the core platform standard. Enable rapid deployment cycles for new countries as national tax authorities mandate electronic formats.
• Vendor & Platform Governance: Act as the primary technical authority evaluating, approving, and governing relationships with global e-invoicing vendors, middleware providers, tax engines, and system integrators.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Design & Blueprinting

• Develop comprehensive architectural blueprints, data flow diagrams, and integration specifications for the global e-invoicing platform.
• Design solution across e-invoicing, order to cash, invoice to pay and record to report technologies; Including SAP DRP, EDICOM, VIM and High Radius.
• Design standard integration patterns (via APIs, EDI, ALE/IDoc, and middleware) connecting core ERPs (e.g., SAP ECC/S4HANA, cloud finance applications) to e-invoicing providers (e.g., Sovos, Pagero, SAP Document Compliance, Avalara, or Tungsten Network) and local tax authority portals.
• Define and manage standard data schemas, field mapping guidelines, and transformation rules for transactional data (e.g., XML, UBL, JSON, Edifact formats).

Compliance & Country Onboarding Support

• Partner closely with Tax, Legal, and Finance Compliance teams to translate complex legislative requirements (such as Peppol standards, CTC models, and local digital reporting requirements) into technical system designs.
• Lead technical scoping and feasibility assessments for upcoming regional rollouts (such as ViDA in Europe, local mandates in APAC, LATAM, etc.).
• Support both the initial pilot implementations and downstream design phases for future countries, maintaining a modular architecture that easily accommodates localized regulatory updates.

Team Collaboration & Agile Execution

• Collaborate closely with the e-invoicing Tech Engineers, Product Owners, Project Managers, and Scrum Masters to define technical user stories, refine the backlog, and execute sprints.
• Provide clear, actionable technical guidance to engineering and implementation teams during build, test, and deployment phases.
• Conduct rigorous technical design reviews and sign-offs to guarantee system scalability, security, high availability, and disaster recovery readiness.

Technology Roadmap & Innovation

• Formulate and maintain the multi-year e-invoicing technology roadmap under the direction of the Finance Technology Senior Director.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, artificial intelligence/machine learning capabilities in document matching, and automation trends to continuously improve operational efficiency within the COE.
• Drive standardizing efforts to retire legacy, fragmented local e-invoicing point solutions in favor of the global unified architecture.

Candidate Profile (Qualifications & Experience)

Education & Professional Experience

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Finance Systems, or a related field.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years in Enterprise Technology, with at least 4 years dedicated to solution architecture or system integration in e-invoicing, digital tax compliance, or EDI domains.
• Track Record: Proven success architecting and delivering global enterprise-scale systems within multinational organizations. Experience establishing a technology COE is highly desirable.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• ERP Mastery: Deep technical understanding of core ERP architectures (specifically SAP SD/FI/MM or S/4HANA document compliance frameworks like DRC/eDocument Cockpit).
• Process Technologies: Technical understanding of SAP DRC, EDICOM, VIM and High Radius and how these are connected within e-invoicing landscape
• Process Knowledge: Strong functional understanding of end-to-end O2C, I2P, and R2R business processes and how tax compliance checkpoints integrate into these flows.
• Integration Technologies: Proficiency in modern integration technologies including REST/SOAP APIs, iPaaS middleware (e.g., MuleSoft, SAP BTP, Dell Boomi), EDI standards, and cryptographic signing methodologies.
• Standards & Mandates: Comprehensive knowledge of global e-invoicing networks (e.g., Peppol) and schemas (UBL, XML, OASIS, CII). Familiarity with Clearance, Reporting, and Portal-based government CTC tax models.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic Vision: Ability to conceptualize complex architectures and articulate their business value to senior executives, including the Finance Technology Senior Director.
• Stakeholder Influence: Strong capability to lead and influence cross-functional, global teams across Finance, Tax, Procurement, and IT without direct reporting lines.
• Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills; a proactive mindset capable of troubleshooting complex system dependencies under tight regulatory deadlines.
• Communication: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate technical jargon into business-friendly terminology.