SAP Enterprise Architect Lead

remote hybrid Rome

senior

sap

Description

The position combines end-to-end architectural ownership and Basis team leadership across a multi-client portfolio. The Enterprise Architect is the technical point of contact for CIOs and client steering committees, defines the target architecture, and oversees all phases: due diligence, sizing, transformation roadmap, system conversion, upgrades, and post-go-live.

The role requires technical program authority and the ability to lead distributed Basis teams—this is not a purely executive profile. The Enterprise Architect is accountable for architectural decisions, the technical quality of delivery, and the growth of the practice.

Responsibility

Define the customer's SAP target architecture — S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, SAP HANA platform, SAP BTP, integration layer — consistent with clean-core principles and operational SLAs.

Architectural governance of transformation programs: RISE with SAP private cloud, on-premise, hybrid and multi-cloud.

Design of the transformation roadmap by selecting the correct approach: greenfield (new implementation), brownfield (system conversion), bluefield (selective data transition).

Ownership of technical due diligence, sizing, Architecture Decision Records (ADR) and technical security blueprints.

Pre-sales and technical RFPs, technical solutioning and effort estimation for new programs.

S/4HANA Conversion & Upgrade

Conduct end-to-end S/4HANA system conversions across heterogeneous landscapes — DMO / DMOVE2S4 from AnyDB or HANA, cutover, go-live, hypercare.

Planning and execution of multiple S/4HANA release upgrades on private cloud (RISE PCE) and on-premise.

Migration scenario architecture: Homogeneous System Copy, SAP HANA Tenant Copy / Move, Homogeneous Update & Copy, Heterogeneous System Copy.

Definition of cutover plan, downtime minimization (near-Zero Downtime, bridge solutions), fallback and rollback strategy.

Lead brownfield, greenfield, and Selective Data Transition (SDT) programs — including in multi-country and multi-template contexts.

SAP HANA Platform

SAP HANA architecture in scale-up and scale-out, HA/DR systems with SAP HANA System Replication (HSR), MDC tenant operations.

Definizione di backup/recovery, patching e lifecycle strategy per database HANA.

Ownership di HANA performance engineering, memory sizing, workload management e tuning.

Governance della sicurezza HANA, encryption at rest, user provisioning e configurazione audit.

Basis leadership & team development

Guida della practice Basis: System Administration, HANA DBA, OS/network, security — team multi-disciplinari e distribuiti.

Gestione diretta di team Basis di almeno 8-10 risorse su programmi pluriennali, con accountability su capacity planning, allocazione e qualità.

Definizione di standard tecnici, operating procedure, runbook e Basis governance trasversale ai clienti.

Mentorship di consulenti senior e mid-level; definizione di career path, capability development plan e percorsi di certificazione del team.

Punto di escalation per gli incident tecnici critici sui clienti del portafoglio.

RISE with SAP & non-RISE deployments

Delivery experience su entrambi i modelli: RISE with SAP / S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition e deployment tradizionali on-premise / IaaS hyperscaler.

Conoscenza del delivery boundary RISE — responsabilità SAP vs cliente vs partner — e governo dell’interfaccia operativa con SAP ECS.

Architettura di landscape ibridi: produzione su RISE e sistemi satellite/non-prod on-premise; oppure migrazioni progressive a RISE per fasi.

Operatività del modello FUE (Full Usage Equivalent): user classification, simulation, remediation, evidence per audit e contract review.

Dual Maintenance, Cloud ALM, Solution Manager

Disegno e operatività dei landscape dual maintenance durante i programmi di trasformazione.

Guida della transizione da SAP Solution Manager / ChaRM a SAP Cloud ALM (Solution Manager End-of-Maintenance 31/12/2027).

Governance di Retrofit, Downgrade Protection, Transport Management, release orchestration e quality gates.

Stakeholder engagement

Interlocuzione con CIO, IT Director e steering committee del cliente.

Traduzione della strategia tecnologica SAP in proposte commerciali, programme structure, milestone plan ed effort estimation.

Guida degli RFP tecnici, delle architecture review board e degli assessment di go-live readiness.

Requisiti:

Esperienza

12+ anni di esperienza SAP technology / Basis, di cui almeno 4 come Enterprise Architect o Technical Lead Architect su programmi enterprise.

Track record dimostrabile di multipli delivery end-to-end — requisito minimo:

3 S/4HANA system conversion (brownfield) completate, su private cloud e/o on-premise

3 S/4HANA release upgrade completati

2 programmi RISE with SAP delivery completati

2 deployment non-RISE (on-premise / IaaS hyperscaler) completati

Esperienza diretta di leadership su team Basis di almeno 8-10 risorse, su engagement pluriennali.

Padronanza operativa di SUM, DMO / DMOVE2S4, SWPM, SAPinst, HANA System Replication, SAP HANA Cockpit / Studio.

Esperienza profonda su SAP HANA architecture — HA/DR, scale-out, HSR, MDC, performance engineering.

Esperienza su dual maintenance, transport orchestration, SAP Solution Manager / ChaRM e SAP Cloud ALM.

Conoscenza dei deployment model RISE with SAP — private cloud reference architecture, FUE metric, delivery boundary cliente / SAP ECS / partner.

Certificazioni — requisite

SAP Certified Technology Associate — SAP HANA 2.0 (C_HANATEC)

SAP Certified Technology Consultant — System Administration for SAP S/4HANA on SAP HANA (C_TADM)

SAP Activate Project Manager (C_ACTIVATE)

SAP Certified Technology Specialist — SAP HANA Installation & Operations o equivalente latest release

Certificazioni — altamente preferite

SAP Certified Technology Specialist — SAP S/4HANA System Conversion

SAP Certified Technology Associate — System Security and Authorisations

SAP Certified Application Associate — SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition implementation with SAP Activate

Soft skills

Leadership consolidata su team distribuiti e multi-cliente.

Capacità di parlare ai CIO con autorità tecnica — non solo a tech lead operativi.

Inglese fluente, scritto e parlato (C1 o superiore). Italiano madrelingua o C2.

Disponibilità a trasferte presso clienti in Italia ed eventualmente in UE.