About this Senior SAP Architect - SAP Platforms & Integration role at Accenture
We are:
Accenture’s SAP practice, and we bring the New to life using design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like IoT, automation, and AI. We even built myConcerto, a mix of SAP and Accenture that helps lead our clients to big wins. Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on "new" SAP like SAP Leonardo, S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. We’ve got over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner—and we’re the leading business partner for SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Hybris, SAP FieldGlass, SAP Concur, and more. Visit us here to find out more about Accenture's SAP practice.
You are:
A transformation expert adept with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. You’re in your element using your know-how to solve clients’ most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You’re as comfortable working in teams and leading projects as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP systems. And you’re up for traveling regularly to client sites.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Technical Architect specializing in SAP Platforms & Integration, you bring extensive experience in designing, governing, and delivering complex SAP-centric enterprise architectures. You serve as an architecture authority, setting technical standards, making pivotal design decisions, and guiding delivery teams through multifaceted technical landscapes. Your mandate is to define solutions that are not only scalable and secure but also future-ready, aligning with business strategies and SAP’s Clean Core and cloud-first principles.
Key Responsibilities:
Architectural Ownership: Lead the end-to-end technical architecture for SAP programs that span multiple technologies and platforms.
Target-State & Transition Architectures: Define target-state, transition, and solution architectures in alignment with SAP Clean Core and cloud-first strategies.
Integration Architecture: Design scalable integration frameworks across SAP and non-SAP systems using APIs, event-driven, and middleware patterns.
Standards & Governance: Establish architectural standards, principles, and guardrails; ensure strict adherence across all delivery teams.
Technology Evaluation: Assess and select technologies, frameworks, and tools based on performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
Landscape Design: Design SAP landscapes for development, testing, production, high availability, and disaster recovery.
Architectural Governance: Provide oversight through design reviews, technical decision forums, and quality gates to maintain architectural integrity.
Collaboration: Work closely with security, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure holistic architectural alignment.
Solution Support: Support solution design in early phases, including feasibility studies, proof-of-concepts, and architecture validation.
Mentorship: Mentor senior developers and technical leads, offering guidance on complex design and implementation challenges.
Other: Travel to client side will be expected. Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
10+ years of experience in SAP technical architecture, platform architecture, or enterprise integration.
Proven expertise in architecting complex SAP solutions across S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Fiori/UI technologies, integration, data, and security layers.
Advanced integration architecture skills across SAP and non-SAP systems, including API-led, event-driven, and hybrid patterns.
Hands-on experience defining extensibility models aligned to SAP Clean Core strategy.
Strong proficiency with SAP BTP services: Integration Suite, API Management, Event Mesh, Cloud Foundry, and Kyma.
Deep understanding of non-functional requirements: performance, scalability, availability, and security.
Experience producing architecture documentation and technical standards.
Exceptional problem-solving abilities, strong decision influencing skills and soft skills to establish trustworthy client relationships.
Eligibility for Secret Security Clearance
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
Technical Expertise:
SAP S/4HANA technical architecture and extensibility
SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
ABAP and ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP)
SAP Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)
Integration technologies and patterns (REST, OData, messaging, events)
Preferred Qualifications:
Certification in SAP Technology, SAP Architecture, or Enterprise Architecture
Experience supporting solution architecture for large-scale programs or platform modernization initiatives
Strong documentation and storytelling skills
Fluency in French is an asset
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.
Information on benefits is here:
Role Location: British Columbia/Ontario/ New Brunswick
Annual Salary Range: $99,450 to $209,900
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About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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