Senior Principal IT Architect - SAP Business AI Platform, S/4 HANA, and ABAP

Medtronic•Mounds View, MN

13d•$156,000 - $234,000•Onsite

About The Position

As the Senior IT Principal Architect for Medtronic’s SAP Business AI Platform, you will lead the enterprise SAP architecture vision across S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, integration, APIs, events, data, and automation. This role combines strategic leadership and hands-on delivery, partnering with IT, business, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, Risk, and Compliance to define technology strategy, governance, standards, roadmaps, and investment priorities that modernize the enterprise and enable AI-driven transformation. It requires deep expertise in SAP architecture, enterprise integration, API management, event-driven design, cloud integration, data integration, and modern application architecture. The ideal resource for this role should be a seasoned SAP professional with a proven track record in navigating both ECC and S/4 HANA landscapes. Your expertise should extend to platform capabilities, architecture, project leadership, security, and compliance to ensure effective and optimal utilization of SAP systems to drive business success.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
10+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience with an advanced degree
Deep expertise in SAP architecture, enterprise integration, API management, event-driven design, cloud integration, data integration, and modern application architecture.
Seasoned SAP professional with a proven track record in navigating both ECC and S/4 HANA landscapes.
Expertise in platform capabilities, architecture, project leadership, security, and compliance.

Nice To Haves

Previous Medtronic experience
Demonstrated success, strong practical and architectural knowledge of: SAP Integration Suite, SAP Cloud Integration / CPI, SAP Joules, SAP API Management, SAP Event Mesh, SAP Advanced Event Mesh, SAP BTP Integration capabilities, REST / OData / SOAP APIs, API-led architecture, Event-driven architecture, Enterprise messaging and asynchronous integration, Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms, Enterprise Service Bus / middleware architectures, Master data and data integration, Batch and file-based integration, Real-time and near-real-time integration, EDI / B2B integration, Cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integration, SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integration, SaaS integration patterns, API lifecycle management, Integration security and identity propagation, Integration monitoring, observability, logging, and tracing, High availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and integration performance, Integration rationalization and technical-debt reduction.

Responsibilities

Define and own the enterprise SAP and integration technology strategy and architecture vision in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
Set guiding principles, best practices and standards, contribute to technology and application selection with SAP Enterprise Architecture organization
Develop and maintain a 3–5 year technology roadmap covering S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, Application and B2B Integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, data, analytics, automation, and emerging technologies.
Define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps for SAP and enterprise application modernization.
Lead technical remediation efforts during the upgrade of ECC to S/4HANA, enable transformational capabilities to be enabled, promote clean-core adoption, implement cloud strategy, integration modernization, and SAP platform rationalization.
Establish enterprise architecture principles that enable interoperability between SAP, non-SAP, SaaS, cloud, legacy, and emerging technology platforms.
Evaluate emerging SAP and integration technologies and determine their applicability to the enterprise.
Establish the architecture strategy for SAP Business AI and AI-enabled business processes using SAP Joule and other augmenting AI platforms and technologies
Define integration patterns for connecting AI capabilities with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, enterprise applications, data platforms, and external AI services.
Establish secure and governed patterns for exposing enterprise data and business processes to AI applications and agents.
Define architecture standards for AI-enabled APIs, events, workflows, agents, and intelligent automation.
Ensure AI solutions address security, privacy, data governance, model risk, regulatory requirements, explainability, and responsible AI principles.
Provide architecture leadership for SAP S/4HANA transformation and modernization initiatives.
Define principles for SAP clean-core architecture, extensibility, custom-code remediation, APIs, integration, and upgrade-safe architectures.
Determine appropriate placement of functionality across S/4HANA, SAP BTP, enterprise platforms, and external applications.
Drive modernization of legacy ABAP customizations toward ABAP Cloud, released APIs, side-by-side extensions, and event-driven architectures.
Establish standards for SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integration.
Own and define the enterprise integration architecture strategy and roadmap for SAP and non-SAP ecosystems.
Establish integration principles, reference architectures, technology standards, design patterns, and governance processes.
Design and govern scalable integration architectures supporting real-time, near-real-time, batch, synchronous, asynchronous, API-led, event-driven, and file-based integration.
Define the strategic use of SAP Integration Suite, API Management, Cloud Integration, Event Mesh, enterprise service buses, messaging platforms, and integration middleware.
Establish enterprise standards for API-first and event-driven architecture.
Define API lifecycle management standards including API design, security, versioning, discoverability, reuse, monitoring, and retirement.
Establish enterprise event standards covering event modeling, event contracts, schemas, publishing, subscription, resiliency, and governance.
Drive modernization from point-to-point and tightly coupled integrations toward loosely coupled, reusable, API-led and event-driven architectures.
Define integration patterns for connecting S/4HANA with SaaS applications, legacy systems, data platforms, cloud services, partner ecosystems, and external applications.
Establish integration security standards covering authentication, authorization, certificates, encryption, secrets management, identity propagation, and secure API access.
Govern integration reliability, performance, scalability, observability, error handling, retry mechanisms, resiliency, and disaster recovery.
Establish enterprise standards for integration monitoring, operational support, alerting, logging, tracing, and end-to-end transaction visibility.
Reduce integration complexity and technical debt through integration rationalization, platform consolidation, reusable services, and common integration patterns.
Provide architecture leadership for enterprise integration initiatives and serve as the escalation point for complex integration decisions.
Serve as the senior architecture authority for ABAP and SAP application development standards.
Define development principles for ABAP Cloud, RAP, APIs, extensions, Fiori, and SAP BTP applications.
Ensure ABAP development follows clean-core, API-first, cloud-ready, secure, and upgrade-safe principles.
Drive custom-code governance, remediation, rationalization, and technical-debt reduction.
Promote reusable APIs, services, integration components, frameworks, and development accelerators.
Establish and lead an SAP, Integration & Technology Architecture Governance framework.
Chair or actively participate in architecture review boards and technology governance forums.
Define and enforce architecture standards, reference architectures, approved technology stacks, integration patterns, and technology principles.
Review and approve strategic SAP, integration, API, cloud, AI, and application architectures.
Govern architecture exceptions and ensure deviations are documented, risk-assessed, time-bound, and approved.
Establish architecture decision records, technology standards, reusable patterns, and governance controls.
Provide technical oversight across major SAP transformation and integration programs.
Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, Privacy, Internal Audit, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure SAP and integration architectures satisfy enterprise control requirements.
Establish security-by-design principles for applications, APIs, integrations, events, data, SAP platforms, and AI capabilities.
Ensure integration architectures comply with enterprise security policies, regulatory requirements, privacy standards, and industry controls.
Govern identity propagation and access controls across SAP and non-SAP integration landscapes.
Establish controls for API security, data protection, encryption, audit logging, monitoring, and traceability.
Identify and mitigate architectural, cybersecurity, operational, regulatory, integration, and technology risks.