SAP Architecture Lead

Position Title: SAP Architecture Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID:39785

Role Summary

The SAP Architecture Lead owns the end-to-end architectural vision and integrity of the SAP S/4HANA landscape ensuring that solution application and integration architecture align with enterprise strategy and emerging AI-driven capabilities. Acting as a bridge between business intent and technical execution this role sets architectural standards governs the technology roadmap and partners with global functional technical and business stakeholders to deliver scalable future-ready SAP environments. A core expectation is the active use of SAP LeanIX to model govern and communicate the enterprise architecture landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the target-state SAP S/4HANA architecture across application data integration and technical layers ensuring alignment with the broader enterprise architecture.
• Maintain the SAP architecture landscape application portfolio and technology roadmaps within SAP LeanIX driving transparency rationalization and data-driven decision-making.
• Embed AI and intelligent enterprise capabilities into the architecture roadmap including SAP Business AI Joule generative-AI use cases on SAP BTP and AI-assisted automation across business processes.
• Establish and enforce architecture governance design principles and standards across projects and run-state operations.
• Provide architectural oversight for major programs (greenfield brownfield and selective transformations) integrations and BTP-based extensions.
• Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and AI tooling advising leadership on adoption fit and value realization.
• Partner with security infrastructure and data teams to ensure compliance performance scalability and resilience.
• Mentor architects and technical leads raising the overall architectural maturity of the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related field.
• Approximately 15 years of experience in SAP Architecture with significant depth in S/4HANA solution and technical architecture.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture management portfolio rationalization and roadmap governance.
• Strong understanding of SAP BTP integration architecture and the SAP AI/intelligent enterprise portfolio.
• Proven track record leading architecture for large complex multi-region SAP landscapes.

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills with a proven ability to engage global functional technical and business stakeholders and translate complex architecture into business-relevant terms.
• Strong influencing facilitation and consensus-building abilities across geographies and cultures.
• Confident decision-making with the maturity to balance strategic vision against delivery constraints.
• Mentorship and team-leadership orientation suited to a mid-management role.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• SAP and/or TOGAF architecture certifications.
• Experience in regulated or manufacturing/consumer-goods environments.
• Exposure to cloud (RISE with SAP / hyperscaler) and large-scale transformation programs.

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Job Family:Information Technology
Division:Global Digital Technology
Department:S4 Operations
Location(s): IN - India : Haryana : Gurgaon

Company:McCain Foods(India) P Ltd

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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1