SAP Technical Architect

Job Responsibilities & Requirements

A Brief Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced SAP Technical Architect with deep expertise in SAP Basis, Development, and Integration architecture to lead and scale a complex global SAP landscape. This role is responsible for defining the overall SAP technical architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and driving the design, governance, and optimization of a SAP RISE Private Cloud environment supporting multi-country deployments and enterprise-wide integrations.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep architectural expertise, strong technical judgment, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct people management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and manage SAP landscapes (n+1, n+2 environments) to support global rollouts, parallel project execution, and long-term scalability.
• Lead end-to-end technical architecture across SAP RISE Private Cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, availability, security, and performance.
• Define solution architecture for new capabilities, enhancements, and integrations while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, technology standards, and business objectives.
• Drive integration architecture strategy across SAP and non-SAP platforms, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable data flows.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, technical design documents, and architecture decision records to ensure consistency and traceability across programs.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, recommending solutions that simplify architecture and improve long-term maintainability.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive landscape maintenance strategy, including system health monitoring, preventative maintenance, patching, upgrades, system refreshes, and lifecycle management.
• Define and govern release, transport, and environment management strategies to support reliable deployments across multiple landscapes while minimizing deployment risk.
• Establish structured communication plans for releases, incidents, planned maintenance, and major technical changes across technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Own system performance, capacity planning, monitoring, and observability, proactively identifying and resolving technical bottlenecks across SAP applications and integrations.
• Design and enforce security architecture, identity integrations, compliance controls, and access governance aligned with enterprise standards and regulatory requirements (SOX, GDPR).
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, including RTO/RPO objectives, failover testing, resilience planning, and periodic validation.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison with SAP (RISE), hyperscaler providers, and strategic technology partners, managing technical escalations, SLAs, and service performance.
• Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cybersecurity, development, integration, and project teams to ensure solutions conform to enterprise architecture, operational standards, and non-functional requirements.
• Establish and enforce SAP technical governance, architectural standards, design principles, and best practices across the SAP ecosystem.
• Review and approve technical solution designs to ensure consistency with enterprise architecture and long-term supportability.
• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to implementation partners, project teams, and engineers while fostering engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• 10+ years of experience in SAP technical architecture with deep specialization in SAP Basis.
• Proven experience architecting and managing SAP RISE Private Cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) and enterprise integration architecture.
• Strong expertise with SAP Cloud ALM (CALM) or comparable Change & Release Management / DevOps orchestration platforms.
• Working knowledge of ABAP, including debugging, enhancements, transports, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical architecture for complex multi-country SAP implementations and global rollouts.
• Experience designing and managing n+1 / n+2 SAP landscapes.
• Experience producing technical architecture documentation, solution designs, reference architectures, and technical standards.
• Experience evaluating and implementing enterprise technologies while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance standards.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, event-driven architecture, and hybrid cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud and/or SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Familiarity with API Management, integration governance frameworks, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience developing enterprise technology roadmaps and evaluating emerging technologies.

Core Technical Competencies

• SAP RISE Private Cloud
• SAP Basis Administration
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
• SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI)
• SAP Cloud ALM (CALM)
• SAP Multibank Connectivity (MBC)
• SAP Commerce Cloud Integration
• OpenText Integration
• Vertex Cloud Integration (SIC Server)
• Identity & Access Management
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Monitoring & Observability
• APIs, REST, OData, SFTP, ODBC, and modern integration patterns
• Salesforce and other enterprise application integrations

Soft Skills

• Self-starter with strong ownership and accountability.
• Demonstrated technical leadership with the ability to influence architectural decisions across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to drive enterprise transformation through technical vision and architectural best practices.
• Strong collaboration skills across global, cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.
• Excellent communication skills with technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to build consensus and influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, highly complex enterprise environments.

Additional Requirements

• 10% Travel will be planed in advance and related to job requirements.

Physical Demands

This role is performed in an office environment where a computer, telephone and other office equipment are used as needed to perform the duties of the role. This role may need to access areas within the building that are undergoing renovations which may contain jobsite hazards. Occasionally this role will required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.

MiTek Perks:

• Generous time off including Paid Time Off, 13 annual holidays, and volunteer time off

• Day One Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision Plans

• Family friendly benefits including Paid Caregiver Leave, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Reimbursement

• Performance/Incentive bonuses

• Career advancement, training opportunities, Employee Resource Groups, and tuition reimbursement

• Retirement programs including Matching 401(k) Contributions and Profit Sharing

• Employer paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance

• myFlexPay partner - allows you to track, manage and access your pay anytime

MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to transform the building industry with better building solutions. In 1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform that provided an affordable and scalable way to manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the balance between off-site and on-site. With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction to transform the way the industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record of continuous growth and innovation.

MiTek is an E-Verify and Drug and Tobacco-Free Workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer; and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or transgender status), age (40 and over), genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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