Bellville, South Africa | Posted on 05/08/2024
Responsibilities
- Work alongside the enterprise architect to ensure solutions conform to goals, standards, and governance frameworks, and are fit-for-purpose from both business and technical perspectives.
- Engage with business and technology stakeholders to elicit requirements and translate them into a solution architecture to be implemented.
- Research new solutions to address specific or general business problems.
- Design and document solution architecture, including integration, to meet identified business and technical requirements.
- Provide subject matter and solution design expertise within the SAP Finance Solutions (SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Insurance Analyzer, SAP GRC, SAP Data Services, etc.).
- Report to the SAP Enterprise Architect within the SAP Centre of Expertise (CoE).
- Engage business and technical stakeholders to elicit goals, objectives, priorities, and requirements.
- Translate business and technical requirements into a solution architecture for implementation.
- Design and validate complex solution architectures to address business and technical requirements and ensure successful implementation.
- Design solution integration architecture to ensure successful implementation.
- Research new solutions for specific or general business problems.
- Provide solution advisory, recommendations, and guidance on the SAP Finance platforms.
- Contribute to the strategic planning and architecture definition of the SAP Finance landscape.
- Understand and interpret the business processes for which the solution architecture is being developed.
- Influence business and IT strategies to ensure collaborative alignment.
- Contribute to building SAP Finance technical and application roadmaps for both on-prem and cloud environments.
- Provide guidance in the SAP Finance landscape system migration or upgrades.
- Document the overall Solution Architecture and integration with other systems in line with Enterprise and Solution Architecture standards and practices.
- Present solutions architecture to different forums, including the Architecture Solutions Evaluation & Review forum.
Requirements
Qualification
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent: minimum requirement.
- Designing and validating complex SAP solutions architecture.
- Ability to identify and challenge solution scenarios by considering the business environment.
- Provide recommendations and guidance on the SAP platform and tools.
- Knowledge of integrating SAP solutions into various technologies and architectures.
- Knowledge of SAP system migration or upgrades.
- IT Strategic planning and execution.
- Systems thinking and holistic approach to solution analysis.
- Comprehensive knowledge of hardware, software, application, security, and systems engineering.
Skills
- Organizational and prioritizing skills.
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Business and report writing.
- Proactive and able to work independently and against tight deadlines.
- Proficient in MS Office with strong Excel, Word, and Visio skills.
- Ability to handle competing priorities and changing requirements.
- Effective communication, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation with stakeholders.
Experience
- 7+ years of SAP Finance Solution Architecture experience.
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP Insurance Analyzer, SAP GRC, SAP Data Services, etc.
- Architecture knowledge and/or certification (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, etc.) required.
- Cloud architecture experience will be beneficial.
Personal Qualities
- Assertive and innovative, with the ability to build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Good communication skills (both verbal and written).
- Resilient and able to work effectively under pressure.
- Highly responsible with the ability to work independently.
- Strong client focus.
- Self-motivated with a strong focus on delivery.
- Strong analytical thinking skills.
- Team player.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, including communication, collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills.
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