SAP Solution Architect

Summary

Join Zensar as a SAP Solution Architect for a 9-month fixed-term contract based remotely in the UK. Define, design, and deliver SAP architectural designs, developing overall solutions including high-level design, statements of work, service design, and bills of materials. Analyze and gather business requirements from complex client environments, creating technical solution proposals. Coordinate assessment sub-streams, manage project team activities, and deliverables, and coordinate vendors. Present to various stakeholder levels and manage issues. This role requires 15+ years of experience architecting complex ERP projects in large consumer companies, a strong understanding of SAP and its ecosystem, and experience with cloud deployments and migrations.

Requirements

• Total Exp – 15+ years
• Experience in architecting complex ERP projects in big consumer companies
• Architectural understanding of SAP and ecosystem
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Define, Design and Delivery SAP Architectural designs
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent in English; Italian is a plus
• TOGAF Preferable or Equivalent Certification is preferable
• SDM experience is a plus but not must