Overview
Location: Hybrid (3 days onsite in Denver, CO or Minneapolis, MN)
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire (C2H)
Schedule: Full-time (40 hours/week)
We are seeking a Senior SAP Technology Solution Architect to provide architecture leadership for large-scale SAP initiatives within the Work Execution and Plant Maintenance domain. This is not a functional SAP architect role. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded Technology Solution Architect with deep SAP expertise and the ability to design, govern, and guide solutions across application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, and operational domains.
The architect will own technical solution direction, architectural integrity, and delivery quality across complex initiatives while ensuring alignment to enterprise architecture standards, technology roadmaps, and long-term business objectives.
Important Candidate Profile
This role is primarily a Technology Solution Architecture position with SAP domain specialization.
Candidates must possess broad Information Systems architecture experience and be comfortable making architecture decisions spanning:
- Enterprise applications
- Integration and middleware platforms
- Security architecture
- Data architecture
- Infrastructure and hosting models
- Cloud and platform services
- Operational supportability and resiliency
Candidates whose experience is primarily focused on SAP functional design, business process architecture, solution leadership, or SAP configuration without significant technology architecture responsibility are unlikely to be a fit.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Required
8+ years of Technology Solution Architecture experience in large, complex enterprise environments.
Extensive experience designing enterprise-scale solutions across application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure domains.
Deep SAP architecture experience including SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP BTP.
Experience leading architecture decisions and technical delivery for large-scale enterprise implementations.
Strong understanding of integration architecture, API design, middleware platforms, event-driven architectures, and system-to-system communication patterns.
Strong understanding of security architecture concepts including:
Authentication and authorization
Identity integration
Transport-layer security
Message-layer security
Encryption strategies
Experience participating in architecture governance processes, architecture review boards, and standards compliance activities.
Ability to assess technology risk and evaluate architectural tradeoffs across multiple platforms and technologies.
Experience collaborating with infrastructure, security, engineering, operations, and business teams.
Preferred
- SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) / Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) expertise.
- SAP Work Management experience.
- Utility, Energy, or other asset-intensive industry experience.
- SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration experience.
- SAP BTP implementation and modernization experience.
- TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture framework experience.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Leadership
- Develop architecture roadmaps and solution designs that align business objectives with enterprise technology strategy.
- Design and govern enterprise solutions across SAP applications, integrations, data platforms, security controls, infrastructure, and operational support models.
- Lead technical architecture decisions and provide guidance throughout the full solution lifecycle.
- Evaluate architecture alternatives and recommend best-fit solutions balancing functionality, security, resiliency, scalability, maintainability, and cost.
Technology Solution Design
- Define high-level and detailed architecture designs that satisfy both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Design secure and scalable integrations between SAP and enterprise systems using APIs, middleware, messaging, events, and batch-based patterns.
- Translate business requirements into end-to-end technology solutions spanning multiple enterprise platforms.
- Ensure solutions meet performance, availability, disaster recovery, operational readiness, and supportability requirements.
Governance & Standards
- Review and approve architecture designs for compliance with enterprise architecture standards.
- Participate in architecture governance forums and manage architecture exceptions when needed.
- Contribute to enterprise architecture patterns, standards, and reference architectures related to integration, security, data, and platform technologies.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve overall application landscape health.
Delivery Leadership
- Lead technical direction across internal delivery teams, vendors, and system integrators.
- Ensure architectural integrity is maintained from design through implementation and production support.
- Assess technology, integration, security, and operational risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Partner with product owners, engineering teams, security teams, infrastructure teams, and operational support organizations to ensure successful delivery.
Technical Architecture Competencies
Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience in several of the following areas:
- Enterprise application architecture
- Distributed system design
- API architecture and management
- Integration architecture and middleware platforms
- Event-driven architecture
- Messaging technologies
- Identity and access management
- Authentication and authorization patterns
- Encryption and security architecture
- Data architecture and data integration
- Cloud and hybrid hosting models
- High availability and resiliency architecture
- Operational readiness and production support models
- Architecture governance and standards management
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of Technology Solution Architecture experience.
- 6+ years of SAP architecture and enterprise solution delivery experience.
- Proven experience architecting solutions across application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure domains.
- Experience delivering complex solutions through the full SDLC.
- Demonstrated ability to influence architecture decisions across large, cross-functional organizations.
- Strong communication skills and ability to engage technical and executive stakeholders.
Education & Certifications You Need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
- Relevant SAP or architecture certifications (preferred but not mandatory)
- TOGAF or similar enterprise architecture certification (nice to have)
What We Offer
At Trissential, we value expertise, innovation, and collaboration. By joining our client's team, you'll have the opportunity to work on enterprise-critical systems while advancing your career in a supportive, forward-thinking environment
- Competitive Compensation - $71-$81 per hour. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.
- Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents - Medical, dental, vision, free tele-health, HSA with company contribution, life and disability insurance, and 401k with matching
- Paid Time Off - Offers paid time away from work
- Hybrid Work Model - Work onsite three days per week in Denver or Minneapolis
- Career Development - Access to enterprise-scale projects and architecture leadership opportunities
- Supportive Team Culture - Work with collaborative teams focused on innovation and continuous improvement
This role is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States
Ready to architect the future of SAP at scale? Apply today and take your career to the next level with Trissential!