Sr Lead Solution Architect

Lumen Technologies

17h • $129,639 - $190,137 • Remote

About The Position

Lumen is the trusted network for AI. We’re transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world.
By connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly, we help organizations move faster and unlock what’s next.
At Lumen, people power progress. Our culture is built on teamwork, trust, and transparency, giving you the flexibility, support, and opportunity to make a lasting impact. We’re looking for top-tier talent ready to take on the challenge. Join us in building the future.
The Role
The Sr Lead Solution Architect role will work in partnership with the Business Units, leading innovative conversations that help shape the growth of our business. The successful Solution Architect must have a strong desire to leverage their technical and communication skills, including business acumen, to understand business requirements, develop a technical architecture, and effectively present solutions that address our business partner’s requirements and provide business value.
Location
This role is designated as a fully remote position within the United States.
The Main Responsibilities
The Solution Architect will be responsible for analyzing complex Finance customer needs and requirements through strategic discovery, utilizing technical thought leadership, discussing SAP best practices, and then delivering a technical solution that meets or exceeds the business need – including non-functional specifications, enablers, 3rd party requirements, and delivers the documented business value.
Business Meetings: Leads and attends business meetings in person and via collaboration tools. Prepares and delivers technical proposals and presentations with the appropriate level of business acumen for the audience. Provides detailed, specific responses to solution and technology questions. Demonstrates strong solution ‘selling abilities’ and effective, proactive business communications. Interacts with all levels of IT and Business teams.
Solution Development: Analyze and identify our Business Partner’s business and technology objectives, conduct full technical discovery, and architect business solutions to meet gathered requirements. Assess business and operations impacted by technology. Craft and propose solutions that meet the business’s requirements and objectives by asking probing questions that are meaningful to the business to collect information that enables the architecture team to be more effective and responsive to clients’ needs. Ability to complete complex custom designs.
Customer Advocate: Acts as a client advocate, participating in efforts including technical presentations, architecture design discussions, proof-of-concept engagements, RFP/RFI responses, solution demonstrations, and technical workshops. Deliver findings including key pain points, proposed solutions to meet business needs, and ROI where applicable. Design, architect and demonstrate visionary solutions in a way that closely reflects our client's technology roadmap.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or equivalent education and experience.
• 20+ years of global experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 15+ years with a master’s degree.
• Global experience in delivering large-scale SAP Finance, Treasury, and BRIM transformations across public and private cloud landscapes.
• Proven leader with 8+ full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations, including greenfield and conversion programs with multi-currency implementations.
• Extensive expertise in designing and delivering SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions across Record-to-Report (RTR), Treasury & Risk Management (TRM), Cash Management, Group Reporting, Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR), BRIM, and Global Banking.
• Ability to lead & engage in technical workshops, and solution discussions with Business and IT Stakeholders. Strong listening, reasoning, and objection handling skills.
• Ability to methodically understand and resolve complex issues. Must demonstrate the ability to focus ambiguous business needs into specific, deliverable requirements. Ability to bridge business strategy and technical architecture to translate requirements into scalable, compliant SAP solutions; following them through implementation. Must demonstrate creative solution development.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work independently, or as part of a team to build complex customer solutions.
• Must be able to build strong team relationships and easily transfer technical information.
• Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines and on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must be very detail-oriented and demonstrate a high degree of accuracy. Attention to detail with good organizational capabilities. Ability to prioritize with good time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing complex Finance customer needs and requirements through strategic discovery, utilizing technical thought leadership, discussing SAP best practices, and then delivering a technical solution that meets or exceeds the business need – including non-functional specifications, enablers, 3rd party requirements, and delivers the documented business value.
• Leads and attends business meetings in person and via collaboration tools.
• Prepares and delivers technical proposals and presentations with the appropriate level of business acumen for the audience.
• Provides detailed, specific responses to solution and technology questions.
• Demonstrates strong solution ‘selling abilities’ and effective, proactive business communications.
• Interacts with all levels of IT and Business teams.
• Analyze and identify our Business Partner’s business and technology objectives, conduct full technical discovery, and architect business solutions to meet gathered requirements.
• Assess business and operations impacted by technology.
• Craft and propose solutions that meet the business’s requirements and objectives by asking probing questions that are meaningful to the business to collect information that enables the architecture team to be more effective and responsive to clients’ needs.
• Ability to complete complex custom designs.
• Acts as a client advocate, participating in efforts including technical presentations, architecture design discussions, proof-of-concept engagements, RFP/RFI responses, solution demonstrations, and technical workshops.
• Deliver findings including key pain points, proposed solutions to meet business needs, and ROI where applicable.
• Design, architect and demonstrate visionary solutions in a way that closely reflects our client's technology roadmap.

Benefits

• Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.
• Benefits
• Bonus Structure

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees