SAP Enterprise Architect

Reporting to the Principal Director SAP Innovation and IP the SAP Enterprise Architect defines and safeguards the end-to-end coherence of the SAP landscape and its connections to the broader enterprise technology ecosystem. The role establishes the target state and multi-year roadmap then governs decisions across programs to protect maintainability security and long-term value.

You advise CIOs executive steering committees delivery teams and solution architects. Your contribution is to arbitrate trade-offs among speed cost and sustainability establish integration data security and extensibility standards and strengthen the practices architecture capability.

Your mission consists of:

• Leadership vision and initiative
  • Define the target architecture and multi-year roadmap for SAP environments including sequencing dependencies and release waves.
  • Chair architecture governance and arbitrate decisions where a local need conflicts with the coherence of the broader estate.
• Consultative intelligence
  • Advise executives on platform strategy technical debt and the architectural implications of acquisitions divestitures and carve-outs.
  • Present and defend architectures and roadmaps to CIO-level stakeholders.
• Problem solving and analytical thinking
  • Set integration data security and extensibility standards including clean-core principles and exception governance.
  • Review and approve solution architectures integration designs and extension proposals produced by delivery teams.
• Customer orientation and partnership
  • Lead architecture solutioning for pursuits and transformation programs including the choice among greenfield brownfield and selective data transition approaches.
• Knowledge sharing
  • Create reference architectures and reusable patterns assess emerging SAP capabilities and mentor solution architects toward enterprise architecture capability.

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Qualifications :

ualifications

• Experience: At least fifteen (15) years in enterprise technology including at least six (6) years in an architecture role spanning multiple systems. 
• SAP achievements: Ownership of target-state architecture for at least two large SAP estates through a multi-year transformation. 
• Technical expertise: At least five (5) years with SAP S/4HANA and governing integration data security and extensibility standards; fluency across cloud identity integration and data platforms. 
• Executive leadership: Direct experience presenting and defending decisions to a CIO or executive steering committee. 
• Education: Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Information Technology or a related field. 
• Conditions: Canada- or U.S.-based remote role with client travel representing approximately 30% to 40% of working time. 
• Communication: good oral and written communication skills in English to communicate with clients located across North America

Assets

• SAP enterprise architecture TOGAF SAP LeanIX cloud architecture or SAP Activate certification. 
• Experience with RISE with SAP mergers and acquisitions or assessing SAP AI and agentic capabilities

Additional Information :

What about the advantages of joining us 

Aside from joining a professional and dynamic team you will be entitled to our compensation plan and various other benefits as well as the opportunity to be part of a talented team. 

All that you deserve and more: 

• Professional development; 
• Profit sharing; 
• Health and well-being insurance from your first day; 
• Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan (DPSP); 
• Flexible hybrid work; 
• Public transit and cell phone allowance; 
• Generous employer contributions to your group RRSP. 

Talan offers competitive salaries and equal opportunities for all. If you are motivated to take on stimulating challenges and meet the requirements send us your resume now!

Please note that we will only communicate with candidates selected for an interview. For the purposes of this job offer the feminine and masculine genders designate indistinctly the staff of both sexes and do not establish any distinction based on sex.

Talan is committed to employment equity.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time