Enterprise Technology Costing Architect

HP•Houston, TX

3d•$174,050 - $278,450

About The Position

The Enterprise Technology Costing Architect owns the end-to-end enterprise technology architecture for Costing, translating the approved Costing business solution blueprint into an integrated, scalable, secure, and sustainable architecture across applications, data, integration, platforms, and downstream systems. The role ensures that technologies including SAP S/4HANA, SAP PaPM, data platforms, integration technologies, analytics, and downstream solutions operate as a coherent enterprise architecture. It protects architectural coherence, enterprise standards, reuse, scalability, and long-term sustainability, and provides architecture assurance from solution design through implementation, deployment, and transition to run. The architect partners closely with the Costing Business Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture, Digital teams, solution and platform architects, technology owners, and implementation partners. The position provides enterprise architecture leadership throughout the Costing Transformation, maintains continuity from architecture through run, and helps ensure the company retains long-term architectural ownership. The role is described as impacting multiple functions and influencing long-term strategic direction across multiple disciplines or areas of HP. It invents, develops, and introduces methods and techniques that impact multiple disciplines and work groups. The position is full-time. The stated U.S. annual pay range is $174,050 to $278,450, with additional opportunities for bonus and/or equity; pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Nice To Haves

TOGAF® Enterprise Architecture Practitioner certification.
Open Certified Architect (Open CA), highly desirable for distinguished technologist level.
SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect certification.
SAP Certified Technology Specialist certification.
SAP Integration Suite certification.
SAP PaPM (Profitability & Performance Management) certification, preferred where available.
SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework certification.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) certification.
Integration Architecture or API Management certifications, such as MuleSoft, SAP Integration Suite, or Azure Integration Services.
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate certification.
AI Architecture or Generative AI certifications relevant to enterprise AI enablement.
Effective communication.
Results orientation.
Learning agility.
Digital fluency.
Customer centricity.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the end-to-end target technology architecture and technology roadmap for Costing.
Translate the approved business solution blueprint and required business capabilities into target technology architecture.
Define how applications, platforms, data, integrations, and downstream systems work together as an enterprise Costing technology ecosystem.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements, and technology standards.
Lead architecture reviews and technology design decisions that materially affect the end-to-end Costing architecture.
Own the target application and system architecture across the Costing technology landscape.
Determine how approved Costing capabilities should be enabled across SAP S/4HANA, SAP PaPM, analytics, data platforms, integration platforms, and supporting or downstream applications.
Drive architectural reuse and rationalization, avoiding unnecessary duplication and technology fragmentation.
Evaluate technology options for architectural fit, scalability, maintainability, reuse, and enterprise sustainability.
Assess emerging technologies, including AI and automation, where they can enable the approved Costing business solution.
Own the architecture for Costing data movement, storage, integration, and consumption.
Define end-to-end integration architecture, interface patterns, and technology dependencies across ERP, Supply Chain, Product, Finance, data platforms, and downstream systems.
Ensure the architecture supports required data quality, traceability, reconciliation, and auditability.
Partner with business and data owners to ensure the technology architecture supports defined business information requirements and semantics.
Establish and apply architecture principles, standards, patterns, and technology guardrails for Costing.
Ensure solution designs comply with the approved enterprise technology architecture.
Lead or challenge decisions that alter the Costing technology architecture, integration model, platform strategy, or technical standards.
Manage architectural risks, technical debt, and architecture exceptions.
Provide architecture assurance through detailed design, build, testing, deployment, and transition to run.
Prevent technology decisions across SAP, PaPM, data, integration, reporting, and downstream systems from creating fragmented architecture.
Identify cross-system dependencies and architectural impacts early in solution design.
Ensure individual solution and platform designs collectively deliver the approved end-to-end business solution.
Work with Enterprise Architecture and relevant technology owners to resolve cross-domain architecture decisions.
Provide end-to-end technology architecture leadership throughout the Costing Transformation.
Challenge implementation partner and vendor designs against the approved business solution, enterprise architecture, and long-term technology strategy.
Evaluate alternative solution options and partner-proposed innovations for technical feasibility, architectural fit, enterprise reuse, scalability, and sustainability.
Ensure the company retains long-term architectural ownership rather than allowing architecture to become vendor-defined.
Maintain technical continuity from architecture through detailed solution design, build, deployment, and run.