SAP Solution Architect
Ref: BBBH68283_1790075135SAP Solution Architect required for an SAP Programme based in the UK on a Contract basis for 6 months initially.
You will need to have proven SAP Solution Architect experience with the ability to work unsupervised and hit the ground running with a fast-paced project.
In this role, you will be a strategic advisor working closely with senior leadership. You will bridge the gap between high-level business strategy and technical execution, defining the transformation roadmap from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. You will champion a „Clean Core“ architecture to drive business agility, leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and Integration Suite (CPI) to streamline a complex multi-system environment while ensuring strict compliance with industry regulations. Your primary objective will be to evaluate the current-state landscape and deliver a redesigned, business-focused target-state S/4HANA.
Key Responsibilities
- Target Roadmap Design: Define the end-to-end target business architecture and long-term blueprints for hybrid cloud and on-premises landscapes.
- Target Architecture: Review the current systems and architecture to reduce the technical debt by eliminating systems, integrating systems that are compatible with target architecture.
- Current-State Business Assessment: Evaluate the ECC EHP8 landscape to identify custom code, workarounds, and deviations from standard SAP processes, focusing heavily on operational impacts within Plant Maintenance, Production (PP), Material/Supply Chain (MM, WM), and Finance (FI/CO).
- Migration Strategy: Formulate conversion paths, phased rollouts, and coexistence frameworks between legacy systems and S/4HANA that minimise operational downtime and business risk.
- Business-Value Blueprinting: Design a high-level target-state S/4HANA blueprint built on standard/vanilla SAP best-practice processes. Champion standard-first governance to eliminate core modifications, simplify future upgrades, and protect business continuity.
- Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA): Instead of trying to fix the entire legacy ERP or build the perfect, massive MES footprint on day one, define the absolute thinnest slice of architecture needed to run a single production line or a single warehouse process. Get it live, prove the value, and iterate.
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM) for IT: Before writing code, map out the data and physical flows on the shop floor. Identify „waste“ in the architecture-such as manual data re-entry, unnecessary synchronous middleware hops, or complex screen navigation on hand-held devices.
- Decoupled Agile Sprints: Separate the frontend/edge deployment (hand-held device layouts, MES operator screens) from the heavy backend configuration. Use SAP Fiori elements and low-code/no-code tools on SAP BTP to prototype and deploy user-facing improvements in days or weeks, rather than months.
Functional Alignment & Value Delivery
- Functional Process Orchestration: Align all architectural decisions with core business operations across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Production, and Finance.
- Process Optimisation: Actively identify opportunities to eliminate manual workarounds during the assessment phase. Build organisational credibility by delivering tangible business value alongside the blueprinting work, ensuring the project delivers operational improvements, not just static documentation.
- Ecosystem Connection: Ensure core SAP functional processes seamlessly integrate with critical non-SAP enterprise platforms (e.g., PLM, CAD, MES, MRO) to create a unified, cross-functional digital thread.
- Operational Validation: Work hand-in-hand with site production, supply chain, and finance leaders to validate existing pain points and stress-test target designs against daily operational realities.
Stakeholder Management & Executive Leadership
- Executive Communication: Translate highly complex architectural choices, technical debt remediation strategies, and ecosystem topologies into clear, actionable business value for senior leadership.
- Decision-Grade Deliverables: Produce effort, timeline, and risk-benefit analyses across realistic and specific migration options (Greenfield vs. Brownfield S/4HANA upgrades). Present findings in a high-impact format suitable for Global Enterprise-level executive decision-making.
- Autonomous Delivery: Operate comfortably as an individual expert with high senior-stakeholder visibility. You must be able to independently drive consensus and produce executive-ready deliverables without relying on a large supporting team beneath you.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Serve as a trusted advisor, aligning global delivery teams, functional analysts, business process owners, and development partners around a unified business vision.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with complex Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Bill of Materials (BOM) management for aviation engines.
- Experience handling the rigorous tracking, serialization, and lifecycle history of life-limited parts.
- Experience assessing or designing the convergence of multiple disparate SAP instances.
- SAP Certified Technology Associate – SAP S/4HANA Cloud / Architecture or relevant SAP Functional Certifications.
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
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