Job Description

JD. Solution Architect. 

• Good business acumen in understanding business use of application functionalities to support processes and enable end-to-end integration
• Experience of working with large company wide/cross business ERP implementations, managing change impacts and dependencies.
• Both SAP ECC & S/4HANA application lifecycle management competence.
• IT management experience in a complex, global IS organization
• 10+ years IT experience as Functional Analyst across several SAP functional modules/applications and Solution Architect (technical/SAP basis experience is an advantage)
• IS solution expertise in other technologies integrating with ERP support distinct business processes is a plus (e.g. PLM, sales tools, CRM, etc…..)
• Fluency in English is a must, other languages are beneficial
• Good at networking and building report with variety of stakeholders
• Communication skills: ability to influence through solution & process competence building confidence in e.g. new functional designs 

Your responsibilities

• Own up the process for review and validation of design, approval and sign-off technical & solution to be implemented in production
• Defines and owns the overall IS platform architecture including its technical components, modules and integration to S/4HANA technology extensions.
• Keep the target solution architecture up-to-date including documentation of roadmap change impacts of the solution in the wider architecture.
• Collaborate with IS architects and other IS solutions architects ensuring the exchange of solution roadmaps to enable proactive management of dependencies & risks whilst evolving the digitalization maturity of the architecture.
• Communicate standard S/4HANA platform enhancements to ensure that the functional leads/process experts are trained on the latest solution features.
• Stay on top of S/4HANA technology roadmap and best practices used in other industries, benchmarking the MO solution including taking the lead for MO functional requirements towards SAP
• Support IS Functional Leads to decide where & how requirements can be covered by available standards functionalities vs. a customization approach.
• Support validation of business and functional requirements together with Process Owners/experts, IS Business & Functional Analyst and Technical Leads to ensure right allocation of processes to respective applications