Senior Application Architect (SAP S/4 HANA) to orchestrate the preparation of solution design documents and blueprints for an S/4 HANA implementation

Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Nov 01, 2023
Job End Date: Oct 31, 2025
Pay Rate: Daily: Negotiable
Job ID: 130032
Location: Ottawa
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Our valued Public Sector client is in need of a Senior Application Architect (SAP S/4 HANA) to orchestrate the preparation of solution design documents and blueprints for an S/4 HANA implementation.

Responsibilities:
  • Plan, direct, facilitate and control the activities of a system development team within scheduled time and cost parameters
  • Produce overall plan, and detailed plans for the design, implementation and support phases of the project, and obtain approvals when required
  • Develop technical architectures, frameworks and strategies, either for an organization or for a major application area, to meet the business and application requirements
  • Identify the policies and requirements that drive out a particular solution
  • Analyze and evaluate alternative technology solutions to meet business problems, including preparation of strategies and roadmaps that could leverage cloud-based services and solutions in the future
  • Ensure the integration of all aspects of technology solutions
  • Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions fit with government and industry directions for technology
  • Analyze functional requirements to identify information, procedures and decision flows
  • Evaluate existing procedures and methods, identify and document database content, structure, and application sub-systems, and develop data dictionary
  • Define and document interfaces of manual to automated operations within application subsystems, to external systems and between new and existing systems
  • Define input/output sources, including detailed plan for technical design phase, and obtain approval of system proposals
  • Prepare or orchestrate the preparation of solution design documents and blueprints
  • Identify and document system specific standards relating to programming, documentation and testing, covering program libraries, data dictionaries, naming conventions, etc
Must Haves:
  • Successfully completed a SAP Certified Associate, Specialist or Professional exam
  • 10 years in the last 15 years working on SAP ERP Implementation projects, including at least 5 years on SAP S/4HANA Implementations
  • 3 years experience as the Application/Software Architect responsible for Large Scale Technology Enabled Projects
    • ​​Large Scale Definition:
      • >$20M  project value
      • supports an organization of over 10,000 employees 
      • a team size of >50 people
      • impacts multiple stakeholder groups
      • impact an end user community of greater than 2,000 individuals across multiple functional areas
      • involve at least one Other Government Department (OGD) or External Third Party
      • Have an impact across multiple geographical locations, in a decentralized, multi-regional environment.​
  • 4 years experience implementing at least 1 of the SAP and Other Related Software Products on 3 or more SAP ERP Implementation