SAP Enterprise Architect
Published | January 4, 2019 |
Location | Dallas, TX |
Category | Default |
Job Type | Full-time |
Description
SAP ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT
Downtown Dallas, TX
Direct Hire: Base + Bonus
Our client in Downtown Dallas is hiring for an Enterprise Architect with strong SAP experience. The Enterprise Architect will lead enterprise strategies and innovation for a growing SAP division.
This is a highly visible and strategic role responsible for the vision of the SAP organization, including building roadmaps.
What You’ll Do:
- Apply a customer experience lens to Enterprise Architect (EA) activities.
- Build the long-term strategic roadmap for all IT systems architecture.
- Circulate technical roadmaps to align IT priorities with business partner needs.
- Demonstrate digital opportunities and partner with internal innovation teams.
- Build strategies around SAP eco system.
- Develop and maintain policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the company.
- Develop application and infrastructure rationalization framework to reduce technical debt.
- Remain intimate and knowledgeable on cloud technologies and cloud and hybrid cloud frameworks.
- Lead the design and modeling of tactical architectures for the delivery, development, and support of projects.
- Manage and facilitate an Enterprise Architecture review board/council to evaluate project proposals for architectural fit.
- Monitor new technological advances in application development and information technologies.
- Participate in digital strategy decisions and provide digital business model consulting within IT Teams.
- Partner with business and technology subject matter experts to elicit and translate business requirements into technological solutions.
- Partner with Information Security to ensure architecture aligns with security strategy and policies.
- Partner with other Solution Architects to provide a consensus-based scalable and adaptable architectural solution.
- Remain active in external networks to proactively integrate new technologies as business needs change.
- Actively participate in the development of the functional area/digital global strategy.
- Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
Skills/Experience You’ll Need:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (IS), or another relevant academic discipline. A Master’s degree is preferred.
- 12 or more years of professional IT or IS experience in managing complex system landscape.
- 5 years of SAP architecture experience.
- 8 years of architecture and technology leadership experience.
- 5 years’ experience building enterprise architecture roadmaps.
- Experience designing, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions.
- SAP eco system experience including SCP.
- A comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with business process and performance modeling, benchmarking, and financial analysis.
- The ability to 'think big and challenge conventional wisdom regarding technology refresh and hype.
- Strong leadership and negotiation skills with business and technical groups.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong project management and organization skills.
- A demonstrated ability to build consensus among many stakeholders.
- The ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and a willingness to take principled bets on new technology.
- The ability to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate IT standards to meet business requirements.
- The ability to build a comprehensive understanding of and strategically connect the needs of multiple business/functional areas.
- The ability to perform all essential job functions of the position with or without accommodations.