SAP S/4HANA Technical Architect

We are seeking an experienced SAP Technical Architect to lead the technical design, system landscape architecture, security compliance, and integration strategy for enterprise S/4HANA implementations. This role is responsible for ensuring system performance, robust high-availability/disaster-recovery (HA/DR) design, and strict alignment with organizational security and data-handling standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Landscape & System Architecture: Own the end-to-end S/4HANA technical architecture, including system landscape design (Dev/QA/Prod, sandbox, and training environments), HANA database sizing, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Deployment Topology: Define deployment architecture suited for restricted operational contexts, including on-premise, air-gapped, or sovereign cloud hosting, network segmentation, and secure data handling.
• Integration Architecture: Select and govern integration platforms (SAP Integration Suite / PI-PO, APIs, OData, IDoc/BAPI), ensuring alignment with overall functional solution designs.
• Security & Compliance Architecture: Define security architecture covering encryption, key management, Identity & Access Management (IAM/SSO), and infrastructure hardening to IM8 or equivalent organizational standards.
• Governance & Operations: Govern transport strategies, DevOps/CI-CD pipelines where applicable, and system copy/refresh processes in close collaboration with the Basis team.
• Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs): Lead technical non-functional requirements—including system performance, scalability, and availability—and collaborate with test teams to define volume and load testing strategies.
• Data Migration & Cutover: Define the technical architecture for data migration and co-own the technical cutover runbook with Basis and data workstream leads.
• Technical Quality Assurance: Deliver technical design assurance and formal sign-offs against established project acceptance criteria.

Key Requirements & Qualifications

Technical Skills & Expertise

• S/4HANA & Infrastructure: Extensive hands-on experience designing S/4HANA landscapes on HANA, HA/DR setups, capacity planning, and sizing for complex, large-scale enterprise deployments.
• Deployment Topologies: Demonstrated experience architecting within on-premise, air-gapped, sovereign cloud, or restricted environments.
• Integration: Proven expertise across SAP Integration Suite, SAP PI-PO, API management, event-driven architecture, and legacy interface patterns.
• Security & Compliance: Practical mastery of network segmentation, IAM/SSO, encryption standards, and hardening systems to IM8 or equivalent enterprise security frameworks.
• NFR & Performance Engineering: Demonstrated experience in performance tuning, capacity planning, and shaping volume/load-test strategies.

Track Record & Project Experience

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in SAP technical architecture, including experience in a lead SAP Technical Architect capacity.
• Successful track record of leading technical architecture (landscape, integration, and security) across multiple full-lifecycle S/4HANA implementations.
• Hands-on experience preparing technical cutover runbooks, managing data migration architectures, and collaborating with Basis teams.

Education & Certifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• SAP Certifications: Relevant SAP technical certification (e.g., S/4HANA System Administration, HANA, or SAP Integration).
• Framework Awareness: Strong working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
• Preferred Qualifications: Enterprise Architecture credentials (e.g., TOGAF or equivalent).SAP BTP / Integration Suite certifications. Information security credentials (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor).Infrastructure or Cloud certifications.

if you believe you fit the requirements for the role, please submit your application below or drop us an email directly quoting the job title.

Due to an anticipated high volume of applicants, we regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified. The information provided is for recruitment purposes only.

Cornerstone Global Partners (EA License Number: 19C9859) is an affirmative equal-opportunity employer and recruitment firm. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.

(Scarlett) Zhang Jifan
Scarlett.Zhang@cornerstoneglobalpartners.com

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