Northern Virginia/Washington, DC
SAP Enterprise Architecture
Must be able to acquire “Secret” security clearance
Position Description:
You will be responsible for bringing deep expertise in the areas of:
- SAP Landscape Architecture, SAP Sizing including SAP HANA
- SAP Upgrades and Migrations
- Technical Project Planning
- SAP System Administration
- Experience in architecting and planning SAP Upgrade and database migration projects
- Excellent track record of delivering SAP upgrades, migrations and other technical related projects
- Strong consulting background in providing both technical delivery and advisory services in a senior role
- Deep SAP Product and architectural knowledge. Evidence of thought leadership in this domain is preferable
- ‘Real world’ SAP HANA Experience (At least one HANA project which wasn’t a proof of concept)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build ‘Trusted Adviser’ relationships
- Directs and participates in high-level SAP ERP enterprise architecture analysis, evaluation, design, integration, and solution development
- Apply SAP ERP Architecture expertise to design, integrate, optimize and manage customer EPR implementation
- Prepares and presents status briefings to the client’s senior executives on approach and courses of action
- SAP BASIS/HANA administration and technical core competencies for tasks including installations and upgrades, problem determination and resolution, software patching, support package application, performance tuning, and project sizing
- Participate in development of business process, strategic, systems and data models
- Develops a deep understanding of business objectives and strategies and ensures architectural vision is fully aligned with those objectives and strategies
- Applies analytical expertise to guide business leaders in optimizing their processes and streamlining their portfolio of information systems
- Advises executives on enterprise strategy, governance, solution implementation and compliance
- Facilitates work-group across stakeholder organizations to identify and define requirements, assess business processes and solution designs and evaluate technology solutions for customers
Basic Qualifications:
- A Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business Administration, or other related scientific or technical discipline is prefered
- Minimum of 10 years SAP Basis experience with SAP systems installation and administration with three or more of the following SAP applications: ECC, CRM, BI, BW, or GRC
- Certified SAP Architect prefered
- At least 10 years of experience in business process analysis/management, enterprise architecture development, systems portfolio management, enterprise solution implementations, operations analysis, enterprise governance and/or strategic planning and a background in management consulting
- The ability to communicate politely, clearly and effectively and persuade and/or influence internal customers at a high level such as senior management on matters of a technical issues
- Possess deep understanding of IT Security principals, Networking and Infrastructure architecture principles to support clients in achieving clean cloud IT Operational Audits
- Must possess excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team environment with minimal guidance
- Ability to relate to people at all levels of an organization and possesses excellent communication and presentation skills
- Proven track record using analytical skills to evaluate system performance, system health checks, and implementation of tuning improvements