SAP Solution Architect

Job type: FTC

Location: Pharma Italy

Overview

SAP Technical Architect: 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 (e.g.-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

Qualifications / Experience

• 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, e.g. 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