Development Architect

SAP•Edgmont Township, PA

81d•Hybrid

About The Position

SAP America, Inc. seeks a Development Architect at our Newtown Square, PA location responsible for a system's relationship to other systems, and for a system's non-functional properties.

Requirements

Performing high-level analysis of customer business processes and requirements to support project evaluations with proposed solutions;
Defining and architecting the design for custom developed software solutions;
Providing direction to development teams for custom solution realization and participating in coding, testing, documenting, and maintenance support activities;
Conducting project quality management, including peer and quality reviews of specifications, design documents, and coding;
ABAP development in specification, design, and execution.

Nice To Haves

Up to 20% domestic travel to various unanticipated customer sites to perform requirements gathering and testing support.

Responsibilities

In charge of the component and dependency structure of a system or sub-system.
Analyse and discuss specifications and their mutual relationship in the light of strategic direction.
Define, document and align architecture to reconcile specifications and strategy with external boundary conditions (e.g. product standards, production constraints).
Govern design and implementation activities to assure compliance to architectural constraints, patterns and anti-patterns.
Manage projects, resources, or expertise ensuring business critical & innovative results.
Build strategic partnerships with customers/partners.
Responsible for Projects of high risks/complexity.
Represent SAP to customers/partners and finds common ground for functional/team/project cooperation.
Assume accountability and responsibility for related actions, products, services & processes and influences business outcomes by representing their function (internally & externally).
Act as an expert in respective field, ambassador, best practice creator and knowledge broker.
Stay updated of trends in respective field and contribute to business strategy by driving innovation in respective topics.