Sap Solution Architect

Description:

• Architectural Development: Develop and architect comprehensive solutions from the ground up, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical requirements, and industry best practices.
• Strategic Leadership: Partner with internal stakeholders to provide strategic and technical leadership, ensuring that solutions are scalable, maintainable, usable, performative, secure, and portable.
• Analytical Skills: Utilize strong analytical and interpretive skills to understand complex issues, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry information impacting the organization.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical risks on projects.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional IT systems/application teams, technical leads, and technology vendors to manage ongoing implementation activities.
• Continuous Improvement: Maintain and update the enterprise technology landscape and technology reference architecture.
• Cybersecurity: Collaborate with the cybersecurity team to complete security threat risk assessments and address security vulnerabilities.
• Integration Expertise: Design and implement integration solutions, leveraging APIs and other technologies to ensure seamless data flow and interoperability between systems.
• Communication & Collaboration: Demonstrate strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Motivate teams to apply their skills and techniques to solve dynamic and complex problems.
• Business Acumen: Understand business needs and drivers, establishing and maintaining a high level of user trust and confidence through service provision.
• Technical Guidance: Provide expert guidance and support for complex technical issues that cannot be resolved by other teams, ensuring timely and efficient problem resolution.
• Project Governance: Enable project governance and controls in collaboration with the IT Project Management Office.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: At least 10 years of progressive experience in a solution architecture role within the energy industry, particularly oil and gas.
• Technical Expertise:
• 10+ years of large-scale business application implementation experience in both on-prem and cloud environments.
• Experience with CRM systems or other similar platforms.
• Experience with database technologies and data migration activities.
• Experience with integration technologies, including APIs.
• Methodologies:
• Familiarity with TOGAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Experience working on Agile & Waterfall methodologies.