SAP Enterprise Architect

Job Location: hybrid in Bucharest

Recruitment process:

• HR discussion
• 2 x Technical interview

Role description:

As SAP Enterprise Architect, you are the authoritative architectural instance for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (SAP GROW), with a strong focus on Retail and Finance-related end-to-end processes.

You define the architectural guardrails within which SAP is used, integrated, extended and AI-enabled, ensuring that the SAP core remains strictly standard-compliant while required enhancements are consistently realized side-by-side.

Our client is one of the first major global retail groups implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition at this scale. In this unique pioneering role, you operate at eye level with SAP product development, actively influence architectural directions and position as a strategic reference customer in an international omnichannel retail environment.

You ensure that our client's SAP landscape - including embedded and side-by-side AI capabilities - is future-proof, upgrade-stable, performant and compliant within a highly complex enterprise system landscape.

The role:

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition follows a strict, standard-oriented, cloud-native ERP paradigm with clearly defined public-cloud constraints. Within this framework, you are responsible for designing and evolving a scalable end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Retail architecture covering procurement, logistics, sales, finance and controlling while ensuring clean-core adherence.

Responsabilities:

Enterprise Architecture SAP S/4HANA Cloud Landscape

• Define and evolve the SAP target architecture for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• Public Edition (SAP GROW) within a complex enterprise system landscape
• Establish and enforce architectural guardrails aligned with public-cloud restrictions, clean-core principles and long-term upgrade stability
• Evaluate SAP software releases, embedded AI capabilities and roadmap innovations and embed them into the target architecture 
• Ensure architectural coherence between SAP core, side-by-side extensions and AI-enabled enterprise services

End-to-End Retail & Finance Architecture

• Design and evolve end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Retail processes covering sales, procurement, logistics, finance and controlling 
• Own the architecture of key retail domains such as merchandise management, supply chain, store operations, customer experience and master data 
• Drive omnichannel enablement across store and digital channels 
• Ensure architectural readiness for international retail operations and high transaction volumes

AI & Intelligent ERP Enablement

• Architect the integration of embedded SAP AI capabilities (e.g. forecasting, automation, recommendations) into business processes
• Define architectural principles for AI-driven process automation within Retail and Finance Ensure clean separation between core ERP logic and AI-based decision services 
• Collaborate closely with AI-native engineering teams to align other software applications with SAP architecture 
• Govern data flows and integration patterns to enable reliable AI use cases across transactional and analytical systems 
• Ensure compliance, explainability and governance standards for AI-enabled ERP processes

Integration Architecture

• Design integrations between SAP S/4HANA and SAP as well as non-SAP enterprise systems such as distributed order management, warehouse management, demand planning and POS systems 
• Define scalable integration architectures aligned with ISA-M principles 
• Establish API-first and event-driven integration patterns where appropriate
• Ensure loosely coupled, resilient and upgrade-stable integration across the retail ecosystem 
• Align SAP architecture with enterprise-wide data, analytics and AI platforms

Non-Functional Architecture & Governance

• Define and govern non-functional standards covering performance, scalability, resilience, observability and security 
• Ensure system stability under peak retail and seasonal loads 
• Assure operational excellence and compliance of delivered solutions 
• Provide architectural guidance across design, build, testing, deployment and hypercare phases 
• Participate in architecture boards and ensure transparent and traceable decision-making

Side-by-Side Extensions & Enablement

• Architect and govern side-by-side extensions using SAP BTP and non-SAP technologies 
• Ensure strict decoupling from the SAP core to maintain long-term upgradeability 
• Mentor solution architects and project teams and promote clean-core best practices 
• Act as trusted advisor to business stakeholders translating functional requirements into scalable technical architectures

Professional Requirements (Must Have)

• Several years of experience as SAP Architect, Enterprise Architect or Lead Consultant with strong exposure to SAP S/4HANA Cloud 
• Proven Retail industry experience Strong experience designing complex enterprise system landscapes 
• Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and public-cloud constraints 
• Proven knowledge in SAP Finance, Merchandise Management, Supply Chain and Store Operations 
• Deep understanding of retail processes such as category management, forecasting & replenishment, pricing and loyalty 
• Strong expertise in modern integration architectures and API-based design English: very good to excellent 

Certifications (Preferred)

• Enterprise Architecture certification (e.g. SAP EAM or TOGAF) Integration Architecture certification aligned with ISA-M

Nice to Have

• Experience with event-driven architectures in SAP environments 
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into ERP or enterprise systems
• Experience with SAP BTP and cloud-based extension concepts 
• Experience in international project environments German language skills beneficial