SAP BTP Architect

SAP BTP Architect

Location: London / Manchester, UK
Contract: Minimum 12 Months
Working Model: Hybrid – 3/4 Days a Week

The Role

As part of a SAP Brownfield Implementation and Enhancement Programme, this role supports the organisation’s business transformation journey to transition into a secure, modern, cloud-aligned SAP S/4HANA platform. The objective is to enable continuous transformation, operational agility, and AI-driven growth.

The role is aligned with a decoupling strategy focused on establishing a clean core architecture, ensuring that the SAP S/4HANA system leverages standard SAP capabilities across key business domains, while minimising customisations and technical debt.

Overall, the role is pivotal in maintaining environment integrity, minimising risks, and accelerating delivery timelines while aligning with enterprise governance, compliance standards, and the broader goal of building a future-ready, AI-enabled SAP platform.

Your Responsibilities

The SAP Technical Architect is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the overall technical architecture of SAP landscapes across SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP BTP, SAP PI/PO, SAP Fiori/UI5, and integrated enterprise systems.

This role ensures high-performance, scalable, secure, and future-ready SAP solutions that align with business strategy and IT roadmaps. The architect collaborates closely with business leaders, solution architects, Basis, development teams, and integration teams to deliver robust and compliant SAP technical platforms.

Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience

Strong hands-on experience designing and governing SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC technical architectures.

Deep understanding of SAP system landscape design, including DEV/QAS/PRD/DR environments.

In-depth knowledge of SAP Basis, system sizing, performance tuning, high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations.

Strong experience with SAP HANA database architecture, optimisation, backup/restore strategies, and security.

Expertise in SAP integration technologies including SAP BTP Integration Suite (CPI), SAP PI/PO, APIs (REST, SOAP, OData), IDocs, RFCs and Event-driven architectures.

Ability to design end-to-end integration patterns across SAP and non-SAP systems (CRM, eCommerce, SCM, WMS, POS, Finance apps).

Ability to enforce coding standards, reusable component frameworks, and conduct technical reviews.

Working knowledge of SAP on Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Strong understanding of SAP security architecture, roles/authorization, SSO, encryption, and compliance requirements.

Proven experience leading SAP technical tracks in large implementations, migrations, or S/4HANA transformations.

Experience conducting technical impact assessments, solution reviews, and performance troubleshooting.

Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Experience

Familiarity with TOGAF, Zachman, or SAP’s Enterprise Architecture Framework.

Exposure to microservices-based architectures and event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, Event Hub).

Experience with SAP BTP advanced services (Workflow, Business Rules, Event Mesh, API Management).

Knowledge of DevOps / CI-CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

Knowledge of SAP BW/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), or cloud-native analytics solutions.

Experience with API-led integration, micro-APIs, and API governance.

Experience in complex enterprise environments such as retail, manufacturing, FMCG, pharma, or supply chain-heavy industries.

Hands-on exposure to Fiori Elements & custom UI5 apps and Side-by-side extensions on SAP BTP.

Experience leading architecture review boards (ARB) or governance forums.

Capability to mentor technical teams and guide large multi-vendor delivery environments