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

DECIEM•Long Island, NY

15d

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 a designated business capability L2 domain and its sub-domains. Operating as a senior individual contributor, the role connects long-term capability vision with technical execution and works with Product Managers, Process Technology Leads, and business stakeholders to turn functional requirements into modular, scalable designs. The role enforces Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, keeping core transaction systems uncustomized while enabling side-by-side cloud extensions through standard APIs. It also audits technical deliverables from Enterprise Business Services partners and other system integrators, safeguards internal intellectual property, promotes GenAI use in architectural workflows, leads design reviews, and mentors architects and other team members. The architect defines and maintains a three-year technical capability vision and roadmap; translates business objectives into technical blueprints; tracks platform total cost of ownership; and identifies redundancy, outdated interfaces, and technical debt. The role owns domain architecture and technology inventories, governs lifecycle tracking, documents process maps and interfaces, and recommends platform updates. It partners with product and engineering teams across the design lifecycle, audits solution designs and estimates, presents designs for formal review, and monitors deployed solutions through telemetry. The position provides architecture leadership for SAP Finance capabilities, especially Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) and Product Costing. Scope includes costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, Material Ledger, transfer pricing, and intercompany and cross-border processes. It supports Finance and Supply Chain integration and end-to-end capability architecture across Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Demand-to-Build, and Book-to-Report. The role also supports global SAP implementations, enhancements, testing, application management, production support, and governance with ABAP development teams. The minimum education requirement is a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, with at least seven years of experience. The anticipated base salary range is $122,900 to $202,500, depending on factors including experience, skills, education, budget, and location. The position is eligible for a bonus program and share incentive plan. The company lists health insurance, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave, education-related programs, paid holidays, and vacation time among its benefits for eligible employees.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
At least 7 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 such as SAP BTP and cloud microservices, defining REST/GraphQL API contracts, and decoupling legacy middleware.
Skill 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, SOW proposals, and code artifacts.
Proficiency applying Value Stream Mapping and APQC modeling to optimize workflows and translate operational needs into technical architecture.
Experience leading SAP FICO architecture, design, and enhancements, with a focus on CO-PA and Product Costing.
Knowledge of Product Costing capabilities including costing variants, transfer control, cost sheets, additive costing, costing without quantity structure, and Material Ledger.
Knowledge of transfer pricing and complex intercompany and cross-border processes.
Ability to define scalable SAP solutions aligned with enterprise architecture standards and global business requirements.
Ability to provide architecture leadership on Finance and Supply Chain integration initiatives.
Ability to lead requirements workshops and Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
Ability to support SAP implementations, enhancement releases, transformation initiatives, testing, AMS, break-fix work, and production support.
Ability to collaborate with development and ABAP teams on functional specifications, enhancements, interfaces, integrations, and delivery governance.
Ability to ensure compliance with Solution Architecture and CoE standards and methodologies.

Responsibilities

Define, maintain, and execute a 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.
Partner with Domain Directors, Product Managers, Process Technology Leads, and stakeholders to align technical designs with business roadmaps.
Track and model total cost of ownership across domain platforms; identify redundant applications, outdated interfaces, and technical debt; and develop modernization business cases.
Lead Value Stream Mapping exercises to identify latency, process 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 lifecycle information.
Serve as the domain’s primary technical authority, translating functional workflows into architectural patterns, data schemas, and platform configuration parameters.
Enforce Fit to Standard and Clean Core principles, using side-by-side cloud extensions and clean APIs for unique business logic rather than custom ERP configurations.
Monitor vendor roadmaps, cloud technology advances, and industry practices, and recommend technical upgrades.
Keep critical L3 process maps, system interfaces, and configuration rules current in shared documentation tools, including Confluence and Signavio.
Ensure documentation is reusable and maintained.
Align user stories, sprint backlogs, and feature implementations with capability blueprints and architecture standards.
Audit technical solution designs and estimates from EBS partners and external system integrators for scope and standards compliance.
Present domain designs to Architecture Review Boards, obtain approvals, and resolve cross-domain integration dependencies.
Implement telemetry metrics for post-deployment performance, interface reliability, and quality.
Identify and implement practical Generative AI and automation use cases in business workflows and technical architecture.
Use ChatGPT Enterprise and AI tools to streamline technical specifications, data dictionaries, and API contracts.
Mentor architects and product managers, provide technical coaching, review design artifacts, and support career progression.
Present domain capability designs in peer design, strategy, and architecture forums; pressure-test peer architectures and support collaborative improvements.
Lead architecture, design, and enhancement of SAP FICO solutions, especially Profitability Analysis and Product Costing.
Provide architecture leadership and governance for Product Costing and Profitability capabilities, including 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 architectural leadership for complex Finance and Supply Chain integration initiatives and balance standard SAP functionality, business requirements, and maintainability in design decisions.
Design and support CO-PA solutions and lead Product Costing design and configuration.
Support transfer pricing models and complex intercompany and cross-border business processes.
Define and govern end-to-end Finance Capability Architecture across P2P, O2C, D2B, and B2R.
Lead workshops, gather business requirements, and conduct Fit/Gap analysis for global and regional deployments.
Support global SAP implementations, enhancement releases, and business transformation initiatives.
Partner with regional and global stakeholders to standardize processes while addressing local requirements.
Support testing activities and provide architectural oversight for AMS, enhancements, break-fix activities, and production support.
Collaborate with development teams to define and review functional specifications, custom enhancements, interfaces, and integrations.
Work with ABAP development teams across design, build, testing, and deployment to ensure enterprise architecture and technical standards are followed.
Ensure adherence to Solution Architecture and Center of Excellence standards and methodologies.