SAP Finance Solutions Architect at Praesignis

Job Role

Reporting to the SAP Enterprise Architect, perform solution architecture functions across different domains (Business, Information, Data, Application, Technology & Security).

Work alongside the enterprise architect to ensure solutions being implemented conform to the Group enterprise goals, standards, and governance frameworks and are fit for purpose from a business and technical perspective.

Responsibilities

• Business and technical stakeholder engagement and elicitation of business and technology goals, objectives, priorities, and requirements.
• Translation of business and technical requirements into a solution architecture to be implemented (to address both business and technical requirements).
• Design and validate a complex solution architecture to address business and technical requirements and ensure successful implementation.
• Research new solutions to address a specific or general business problem.
• Design solution integration architecture to address business and technical requirements and ensure successful implementation.
• Provide solution advisory, recommendations, and guidance on the SAP Finance platforms (SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Insurance Analyser, SAP GRC, SAP Data Services, etc.).
• Contribute to the strategic planning and architecture definition of Group SAP Finance landscape.
• Understand and interpret the business processes for which the solution architecture is being developed.
• Influence business and IT strategies ensuring collaborative alignment.
• Contribute to building Group SAP Finance technical and application roadmaps (both for on-prem and in the cloud).
• Active involvement and provide guidance in the SAP Finance landscape system migration or upgrades
• Document the overall Solution Architecture and integration to other systems in line with the Group Enterprise and Solution Architecture standards and practices.
• Present solutions architecture to different Group forums (including the Group Architecture Solutions Evaluation & Review forum).

Requirements

Qualifications

• Matric
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent will be strongly recommended.

Experience

• 7 + years of SAP Finance Solution Architecture experience.
• Experience SAP S/4 HANA Finance, SAP Insurance Analyser, SAP GRC, SAP Data Services, etc. required.
• Architecture Knowledge and/or Certification (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) required.
• Cloud Architecture experience will be beneficial.

Knowledge

• Designing and validating a complex SAP Solutions architecture.
• Ability to identify and challenge solution scenarios by taking the business environment into account.
• Provide recommendations and guidance on the SAP platform and tools.
• Knowledge of integrating SAP solutions into a broad array of technologies and architectures.
• Knowledge of SAP system migration or upgrades.
• IT Strategic planning and execution.
• Knowledge of Systems thinking and holistic approach to solution analysis.
• Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, security, and systems engineering.