SAP Technical Architect
Job Reference Number: PG1
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires SAP Technical Architect to be based at their client’s office in London / Manchester, UK.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London / Manchester office 3-4 days per week .
This is a 12-month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
Key Responsibilities
- The SAP Technical Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the overall technical architecture of SAP landscapes across SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP PI/PO, SAP Fiori/UI5, and integrated enterprise systems.
- This role ensures high performance, scalable, secure, and future ready SAP solutions that align with business strategy and IT roadmaps.
- The architect collaborates closely with business leaders, solution architects, Basis, development teams, and integration teams to deliver robust and compliant SAP technical platforms
Key Requirements
Essential Skills:
- Strong hands‑on experience designing and governing SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC technical architectures.
- Provide technical leadership for ABAP, Fiori/UI5, OData, CDS Views, and SAP Basis teams.
- Deep understanding of SAP system landscape design, including DEV/QAS/PRD/DR environments.
- In‑depth knowledge of SAP Basis, system sizing, performance tuning, high‑availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations.
- Strong experience with SAP HANA database architecture, optimization, backup/restore strategies, and security.
- Expertise in SAP integration technologies:
- SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI)
- SAP PI/PO
- APIs (REST, SOAP, OData)
- IDocs, RFCs, Event‑driven architectures
- Ability to design end‑to‑end integration patterns across SAP and non‑SAP systems (CRM, eCommerce, SCM, WMS, POS, Finance apps).
- Ability to enforce coding standards, reusable component frameworks, and conduct technical reviews.
- Working knowledge of SAP on Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Strong understanding of SAP security architecture, roles/authorization, SSO, encryption, and compliance requirements.
- Proven experience leading SAP technical tracks in large implementations, migrations, or S/4HANA transformations.
- Experience conducting technical impact assessments, solution reviews, and performance troubleshooting.
Desirable Skills:
- Familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman, or SAP’s Enterprise Architecture Framework.
- Exposure to microservices‑based architectures and event‑driven systems (e.g., Kafka, Event Hub).
- Experience with SAP BTP advanced services (Workflow, Business Rules, Event Mesh, API Management).
- Knowledge of DevOps / CI‑CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
- Knowledge of SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), or cloud-native analytics solutions.
- Experience with API-led integration, micro-APIs, and API governance.
- Experience in complex enterprise environments such as retail, manufacturing, FMCG, pharma, or supply chain-heavy industries.
- Hands‑on exposure to Fiori Elements & custom UI5 apps and Side‑by‑side extensions on SAP BTP
- Experience leading architecture review boards (ARB) or governance forums.
- Capability to mentor technical teams and guide large multi‑vendor delivery environments.
- Ability to influence C‑level stakeholders with well‑structured architecture recommendations
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