Sap Solutions Architect

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced, client-facing SAP Solution Architect to act as the primary SAP functional advisor and lead for one of our engagements with a large manufacturing customer, based out of UK. The role will own day-to-day customer engagement, roadmap and solution architecture advice across business processes, partner with delivery to unblock technical/architectural gaps, and drive continuous improvement to adoption, stabilisation and value realisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the main onsite SAP architecture point of contact for business stakeholders and the customer IT organisation; build trust and manage expectations proactively.
• Lead functional requirements discovery, business-process mapping, fit-gap analysis and solution architecture recommendations across priority areas (with deep focus on Order-to-Cash or Supply Chain Management, alongside Finance, Procure-to-Pay, or Manufacturing depending on customer).
• Translate customer business needs into actionable, scalable SAP designs and acceptance criteria; coordinate with technical architects, developers and integration teams to ensure fit-for-purpose delivery.
• Advise on SAP roadmap topics (S/4HANA readiness, release upgrades, cloud & integration strategy, central finance or consolidation patterns) and prepare business cases for proposed changes.
• Own incident/problem triage for major business-impacting SAP architecture issues until resolution, working closely with AMS, Basis, ABAP/Fiori, and cloud infra teams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives (process simplification, configuration optimisations, activation of standard SAP capabilities, process harmonisation) to increase stability and lower total cost of ownership.

Support contract and commercial discussions by estimating effort, identifying scope risks and contributing to statements of work and renewals