Title:  SAP Business Solutions Lead Architect

Duration: Perm

Rate:  $125K-$135K plus bonus potential

Number of Positions: 1

Years of experience:  12+

Manager Notes:

•           Looking for a cross functional SAP consultant

•           Must have excellent business and process skills and be able to present well to the stakeholders

•           Need to have modules PP and MM but QM and PM are nice to haves

•           Must be able to understand requirements from different teams

•           Good knowledge of SDLC

•           Blueprint ready then test and implement

•           Must understand how these modules integrate with the system and be able to customize

•           Hands on with good communication skills

•           Would really like to have local candidates if possible

•           Someone who can drive technology innovations

•           Someone that can help manage large projects and is good with business process

•           Be able to communicate well with different teams and different levels in the organization

•           Good collaboration and conversation skills

 

Job Description:

A Business Solutions Lead Architect is a key position that partners with business and IT stakeholders in the organization to create leading edge, well-defined technology plans and solutions that are aligned to the Client’s IT and Business Strategy. A background in SAP Materials Management, Production Planning / Execution, Shop floor, Quality, Plant Maintenance and Reporting systems is required.

•           Identifies challenges, opportunities and gaps in the business process and helps build technology strategy and plans to address them

•           Define the business use cases to support the operational business initiative

•           Helps guide the business and IT on architectural alternatives by clearly articulating the implications of each, short and long term solution

•           Responsible for devising solutions, solution architecture descriptions, and subsequent monitoring and governance of their implementation

•           Designs and implements business solutions that link disparate processes and application systems

•           Evaluates the business process architecture and ensures it is flexible enough to support incremental development, ongoing maintenance, and future enhancements to the system architecture

•           Translates business objectives and processes into a conceptual architecture that describes key functional and non-functional requirements

•           Accountable for quality of the solution through the SDLC process.

•           Documents the “as-is” business process and use business process reengineering techniques to identify and unclog process bottlenecks

•           Provides essential input as Subject Matter Expert (SME) to any major business process or business product-altering project

•           Works with the Segment Delivery Organization to communicate the business process strategy and vision; facilitates business process review meetings with the business stakeholders

•           Develops analysis tools to evaluate existing and future business architecture for compatibility with client standards and vision

•           Advise on functionality, costs, benefits, and implementation requirements of technology solutions

•           Define use cases for POC (proof of concept), as appropriate