Senior Lead, Capability Design Architect, Finance Product Costing and Profitability

ELC Beauty LLC • New York, NY

34d • $122,900 - $202,500

About The Position

The Senior Lead Capability Design Architect is a senior technical leader and domain architecture lead responsible for defining, governing, and executing technical blueprints for an assigned business capability L2 domain and its sub-domains. Operating as a senior individual contributor, the role connects long-term capability vision with technical execution. Within ELC’s Product Operating Model, the architect works with Product Managers, Process Technology Leads, and business stakeholders to translate functional requirements into modular, scalable technical designs. The role enforces Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, keeping core transaction systems unpolluted while enabling side-by-side cloud extensions through standard APIs. It also governs technical division-of-labor boundaries with Enterprise Business Services partners, audits vendor deliverables to safeguard internal intellectual property, promotes GenAI use in architecture workflows, presents designs in review forums, and mentors architects and other Enterprise Product Design Engineering team members.

The role owns the technical capability vision and roadmap, domain architecture inventory and governance, solution-design alignment, and design lifecycle oversight. Its finance domain focus includes SAP FICO, particularly Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing, and integrated finance capabilities across Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Demand-to-Build, and Book-to-Report. The architect leads design and enhancement work, supports global implementations and transformation initiatives, provides oversight for application management and production support, and ensures architecture and CoE standards are followed across development and deployment.

The position requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and at least seven years of experience. The anticipated base salary range is $122,900 to $202,500, with eligibility for a bonus program and share incentive plan. The company also describes a range of benefits for eligible employees.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least seven years of experience.
• Advanced ability to model end-to-end domain technical architectures using TOGAF or SAP EA frameworks, including data flows and interface specifications.
• Deep technical proficiency designing side-by-side extensions using SAP BTP and cloud microservices, defining REST or GraphQL API contracts, and decoupling legacy middleware.
• Skill in using ChatGPT Enterprise and AI development tools to accelerate technical specification drafting, analyze legacy configuration dependencies, and maintain living repositories.
• Ability to review, audit, and benchmark system integrator technical designs, statements of work, and code artifacts.
• Proficiency in Value Stream Mapping and APQC modeling to optimize processes and translate operational needs into technical architecture.
• Experience leading SAP FICO architecture, design, and enhancement, especially Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing.
• Knowledge of costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger, transfer pricing, and intercompany or cross-border processes.
• Ability to define scalable SAP solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and global business requirements.
• Ability to provide architecture leadership for Finance and Supply Chain integrations and balance standard SAP functionality with business requirements and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to lead requirements workshops and conduct Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
• Experience supporting global SAP implementations, enhancement releases, and business transformation initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate with global and regional stakeholders to standardize processes while accommodating local requirements.
• Ability to collaborate with development teams on specifications, enhancements, interfaces, and integrations, and govern ABAP work across design, build, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to ensure adherence to Solution Architecture and CoE standards and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and execute the three-year technical capability vision and architectural roadmap for the assigned L2 domain and sub-domains.
• Translate business capability objectives into modular technical blueprints that guide product squad execution.
• Align technical designs with business roadmaps in partnership with Domain Directors, Product Managers, and Process Technology Leads.
• Track and model total cost of ownership across domain platforms; identify redundant applications, outdated interfaces, and technical debt; and prepare modernization business cases.
• Lead domain-level Value Stream Mapping exercises to identify latency, bottlenecks, and integration friction, and design automated integrations to improve operational flow.
• Maintain and govern an accurate inventory of domain technology products, custom components, integrations, and software lifecycles.
• Act as the primary technical authority for the domain, translating functional workflows into architectural patterns, data schemas, and platform configuration parameters.
• Enforce Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, directing unique business logic to side-by-side cloud extensions and clean APIs rather than custom ERP configurations.
• Monitor vendor roadmaps, cloud technology developments, and industry practices, and recommend technical upgrades.
• Keep critical L3 process maps, interfaces, and configuration rules updated in shared documentation tools, including Confluence and Signavio.
• Ensure user stories, sprint backlogs, and feature implementations conform to capability blueprints and architecture standards.
• Audit technical designs and estimates from EBS partners and external system integrators to prevent scope creep and ensure compliance with ELC standards.
• Present domain architecture at Architecture Review Boards, obtain design approvals, and resolve cross-domain integration dependencies.
• Implement platform telemetry to monitor system performance, interface reliability, and quality after deployment.
• Identify and implement practical Generative AI and automation use cases in the domain and its workflows.
• Use ChatGPT Enterprise and AI tools to accelerate drafting of technical specifications, data dictionaries, and API contracts.
• Mentor architects and product managers, coach technical practice, review design artifacts, and support career progression.
• Present domain capability designs in peer design, strategy, and architecture reviews, and pressure-test peer architectures to improve collaborative designs.
• Lead the architecture, design, and enhancement of SAP FICO solutions, focusing on Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing.
• Provide architecture leadership and governance for Product Costing and Profitability capabilities, including CO-PA, costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger, transfer pricing, and intercompany and cross-border processes.
• Define scalable SAP solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and global business requirements.
• Provide architecture leadership for complex Finance and Supply Chain integration initiatives, balancing standard SAP functionality, business requirements, and maintainability.
• Design and support Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) solutions and lead Product Costing design and configuration.
• Support transfer pricing models and complex intercompany and cross-border processes.
• Define and govern end-to-end Finance Capability Architecture across P2P, O2C, D2B, and B2R.
• Lead workshops to gather business requirements and conduct Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
• Support global SAP implementations, enhancement releases, and business transformation initiatives.
• Work with regional and global stakeholders to standardize processes while addressing local business requirements.
• Support testing activities.
• Provide architectural oversight for application management services, enhancements, break-fix work, and production support.
• Collaborate with development teams on functional specifications, custom enhancements, interfaces, and integrations.
• Work with ABAP development teams across design, build, testing, and deployment to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards and technical best practices.
• Ensure adherence to Solution Architecture and Center of Excellence standards and methodologies.

Benefits

• Bonus program, including the possibility of overachievement based on performance and company results.
• Share incentive plan.
• Health insurance coverage, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Wellness and family support programs.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Paid leave programs.
• Education-related programs.
• Paid holidays and vacation time.

What This Job Offers

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