SAP Solutions Architect

Global Staffing & Talent Solutions • Sant Ana, CA

12h

About The Position

ECLARO is seeking a strategy-focused, hands-on SAP Solutions Architect for its client in Santa Ana, California. The role owns the design and direction of the company’s SAP ERP landscape and connected systems, including High-Jump WMS and EDI. The architect sets the SAP roadmap, defines target-state architecture, and guides forecasting and planning for the broader enterprise application strategy.

This role combines enterprise architecture with delivery leadership across multiple SAP projects and business segments, from blueprint and design through go-live and hypercare. It leads onshore and offshore functional and technical teams and SAP deployment and support architecture across California, Mississippi, Salem, and Mexico. The architect also works with business stakeholders, management, SAP, system integrators, and other vendors to deliver and support solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 15 years of related experience in systems analysis and application development, including 10 or more years focused on SAP.
• Supervisory, management, and administrative experience.
• Experience managing a global team.
• At least two full-cycle SAP implementations.
• Experience as an SAP solution or enterprise architect, with architecture ownership for a multi-site SAP environment and target-state architecture across multiple modules and integrated systems.
• Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple SAP modules and cross-module integration, including FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, and WM/EWM.
• Strong integration architecture skills, including IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, APIs, and SAP PI/PO or CPI.
• Working knowledge of ABAP, SAP Basis, and SAP security and authorizations.
• Experience integrating SAP with warehouse management systems and EDI.
• Strong understanding of relational databases.
• Willingness to work with offshore technical and functional staff.
• Successful team management experience.
• Ability to operate calmly in a high-pressure environment and maintain strong attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including business executives.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects in a team environment.
• Proven leadership, organizational, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong team-building, partnership, collaboration, and resource-management skills.

Nice To Haves

• Manufacturing industry experience.
• S/4HANA implementation or migration experience, including migration approaches, SAP Activate, clean-core principles, and SAP BTP.
• Exposure to other ERP systems, such as Oracle EBS or JD Edwards.
• SAP HANA experience.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.
• Experience with High-Jump WMS or a similar warehouse management system.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end enterprise SAP solution architecture across SAP modules and integrated systems, including WMS and EDI.
• Define current- and target-state SAP architecture and own the roadmap, including S/4HANA strategy, releases, and upgrades.
• Design integration architecture between SAP, WMS, EDI trading partners, and third-party systems.
• Set and govern SAP architecture standards, design principles, and clean-core guidelines; lead design reviews for compliance.
• Evaluate the SAP landscape, master data, and data layers; lead data architecture and migration strategy.
• Guide solution design for RICEFW objects, favoring standard configuration and SAP BTP extensions over core modifications.
• Assess total cost of ownership, SAP product direction, platform and hosting options, and make recommendations to leadership.
• Define non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, security, and availability of SAP production systems.
• Lead SAP deployment and support architecture across California, Mississippi, Salem, and Mexico, including connected WMS, EDI, and new applications.
• Lead, mentor, and supervise direct and matrixed global SAP functional and technical resources, including analysts, ABAP developers, and Basis staff.
• Keep the team current on SAP tools, techniques, and roadmap, including S/4HANA, Fiori, SAP BTP, and SAP Activate.
• Define resource requirements and allocations, monitor and improve quality, and ensure best-practice development techniques.
• Ensure production stability through incident, problem, transport, and change management processes.
• Assess, evaluate, and guide development and QA efforts, including unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Manage offshore SAP resources and coordinate testing between onshore and offshore teams.
• Manage risks, issues, and scope change control; advocate for change management and encourage innovation.
• Coordinate communication and integration with departments and stakeholders across the company.
• Schedule and implement SAP initiatives internally and with SAP and system integrator partners, ensuring on-time, on-budget, quality delivery.
• Ensure architecture decisions, SAP configuration, and functional and technical specifications are documented.
• Manage vendors, including SAP, system integrators, and offshore partners; participate in contract and licensing negotiations.
• Work with management and stakeholders to prioritize business goals.

Benefits

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch.
• Pretax commuter benefits through Commuter Check.
• Eligibility to purchase medical, dental, and vision insurance through ECLARO.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior