SAP Chief Solution Architect, Chief

Pacific Gas And Electric Company • Oakland, CA

1d • $195,000 - $264,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The SAP Chief Technical Architect is the technology futurist and chief engineering authority for the Propel Program. This role defines what SAP capabilities PG&E should adopt, when to adopt them, how to govern them, and how to ensure the technical foundation is ready for future releases. The role owns the long-term SAP technology strategy and future-state architecture across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, Integration Suite, Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, SAP Cloud ALM, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, SAP AI and Joule, security, development, data, integration, observability, and platform services. It aligns SAP strategy with enterprise strategy and ensures solutions are scalable, secure, operable, cost-conscious, upgrade-ready, and consistent with Clean Core principles. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. This Chief will be assigned to PG&E’s headquarters in Oakland, California.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or related field or equivalent experience
• 12 years in IT
• 10 years of solution architecture and project implementation experience.
• Demonstrated leadership across multiple SAP architecture domains, including S/4HANA, BTP, integration, data and analytics, development, security, platform engineering, application lifecycle management, and operations.
• Experience defining target-state architectures, multi-year roadmaps, transition plans, architecture standards, technology governance, and investment recommendations for large SAP transformations.
• Experience influencing architects, engineers, delivery teams, executives, vendors, and system integrators and communicating complex technology decisions, risk, cost, and trade-offs to senior leadership.
• Experience providing direction to a team of technology architects

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in a related discipline.
• Deep expertise with SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP, with experience in Integration Suite and one or more of Datasphere, Business Data Cloud, Cloud ALM, SAP Build, HANA Cloud, SAP AI Core, AI Launchpad, or Joule.
• Experience with Clean Core, side-by-side extensibility, API-first integration, event-driven architecture, semantic modeling, data products, cloud operating models, and complementary enterprise platforms.
• Relevant architecture, SAP, cloud, security, or IT service management certifications; experience in a regulated, asset-intensive, or utility environment.

Responsibilities

• Own Propel's 12-, 24-, and 36-month SAP technology roadmap, including target-state architecture, lifecycle transitions, sequencing, dependencies, investment needs, and retirement of legacy capabilities.
• Keep SAP strategy aligned with PG&E enterprise strategy, business priorities, security requirements, architecture standards, operating-model needs, financial objectives, and SAP product direction.
• Evaluate emerging SAP capabilities and recommend what to adopt, when to adopt it, and what not to adopt based on business value, maturity, risk, cost, security, operational readiness, and release timing.
• Own the SAP innovation backlog and governed POC pipeline for generative and agentic AI, Joule, SAP Knowledge Graph, SAP Build Code, Event Mesh, Business Data Cloud, SAP Graph, advanced observability, and Cloud ALM. Define success criteria and scale, defer, redesign, or stop recommendations.
• Own Propel's SAP technical governance framework and architecture decision process. Establish reference architectures, standards, reusable patterns, guardrails, decision records, architecture signoffs, and exception controls.
• Define and govern BTP platform architecture, account and subaccount principles, environments, entitlements, connectivity, security, service adoption, lifecycle management, observability, support readiness, capacity, and cost optimization.
• Guide adoption of Integration Suite, API Management, Event Mesh, Build Work Zone, Build Process Automation, Build Code, Business Application Studio, HANA Cloud, AI Core, AI Launchpad, and Joule Foundation.
• Own future-state integration architecture across SAP, MuleSoft, legacy platforms, cloud applications, GIS, OpenText, SailPoint, HR ecosystems, and enterprise services. Drive API-first, event-driven, reusable patterns and reduce point-to-point integrations.
• Set the direction for SAP data, reporting, and analytics, including the transition path for Datasphere and Business Data Cloud, HANA Cloud, enterprise data platforms, semantic models, data products, data quality, lineage, access, reuse, and lifecycle controls.
• Own the roadmap for SAP Cloud ALM, monitoring, observability, test management, change control, release management, business-process and integration monitoring, technology health dashboards, and operational readiness.
• Lead cross-domain readiness for Propel Release 2 and future releases, moving foundational work left across architecture, data, interfaces, environments, security, testing, monitoring, and operations.
• Lead data pull-forward, including discovery, profiling, cleansing, quality assessment, mapping dependencies, mock loads, conversion rehearsals, defect closure, and readiness reviews.
• Maintain program-level technical risk and debt registers. Identify lifecycle, scalability, resiliency, security, upgrade, and supportability risks early and drive remediation or retirement roadmaps.
• Advise Propel and PG&E Technology leadership, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Operations, SAP, and system integrators on technology direction, investments, architecture trade-offs, innovation, release risk, and sustainability.
• Provide functional technical direction and mentoring across BTP, integration, data, development and extensibility, Basis and platform engineering, security, Cloud ALM, observability, governance, and innovation POCs.
• Hold delivery partners accountable for architecture quality, standards compliance, reusable assets, documentation, knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and sustainable engineering practices.

Benefits

• annual Short Term Incentive Plan (STIP) award
• Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) grant

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Associate degree