SAP Solution Architect

Realtime Recruitment is looking for a principal-level ERP Solution Architect with deep SAP technical expertise to join a major national programme being built from the ground up. The programme covers the technology, business and operational readiness needed to take a new, high-volume service live.

This is a client-side role. An implementation partner is delivering the SAP solution and the finance leads own the finance processes. You will be the independent technical voice alongside both, making sure what gets designed is coherent, secure, well integrated and fit to run.

What you'll be doing

• Defining and maintaining the end-to-end technical architecture for the SAP solution: landscape, environments, integration, data, identity, security, resilience, performance, monitoring and supportability
• Aligning the SAP design with enterprise architecture principles, Azure services, integration patterns, the data platform and connected core systems
• Reviewing and challenging the implementation partner's technical designs, assumptions, dependencies, extensions and non-standard components
• Assessing the technical impact of proposed configuration, extensions, third-party products, custom development and manual workarounds
• Defining and assuring interface architecture, data contracts, mappings, integration controls, error handling, observability and technical reconciliation
• Working with Cyber, Enterprise Architecture and Technology Operations on access, security roles, segregation of duties, data protection, environments, release controls and transition to service
• Giving technical input to design authority, quality gates, testing, migration, cutover and readiness decisions, flagging risks and recommending actions
• Translating finance requirements into technical implications and confirming the partner's design addresses them

What the role isn't

You won't be designing finance processes or making accounting decisions, and you won't be configuring or building. You own the client-side technical architecture view and advise programme governance on technical fitness, risk and alignment.

What you'll bring

• Principal-level SAP solution architecture experience across complex, integrated enterprise implementations
• Strong technical knowledge of SAP S/4HANA landscapes, SAP BTP and SAP Integration Suite, plus interfaces, environments, identity, security, data, non-functional requirements and service transition
• Experience acting as client-side design authority and independently challenging a systems integration partner
• The ability to turn business and finance requirements into technical impacts and architecture decisions
• Experience integrating SAP with Microsoft Azure services and enterprise data platforms
• A background in high-volume, regulated or operationally critical environments

Interested? Apply here or email [email protected] for a confidential chat.