SAP Solution Architect
1-Year Contract | Enterprise Transformation Programme
Kerry Consulting is partnering with a large, complex enterprise organisation embarking on a major SAP transformation journey. We are seeking an experienced SAP Solution Architect to play a critical role in shaping and governing the end-to-end SAP architecture across S/4HANA RISE and SuccessFactors, with a strong focus on Clean Core principles, fit-to-standard adoption, and long-term architectural integrity.
This is a senior, high-impact contract role suited to architects who operate confidently at both strategic and delivery governance levels, and who are comfortable challenging System Integrators to ensure business-led, future-ready solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end SAP solution architecture across S/4HANA RISE and SuccessFactors, ensuring alignment with the organisation's target operating model, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term digital roadmap - not a like-for-like reimplementation of legacy SAP ECC.
- Translate complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant SAP solutions, balancing functional fit, extensibility, controls, and reporting needs.
- Act as the architectural authority, reviewing, challenging, and approving System Integrator designs and proposals to ensure solutions deliver true business capabilities and outcomes.
- Drive a Clean Core strategy, maximising standardisation and fit-to-standard adoption while defining appropriate extensibility using in-app extensibility and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
- Establish and govern architectural design decisions, maintaining a structured architecture decision log capturing options, rationale, deviations, and downstream impacts.
- Define the enterprise reporting and analytics architecture, ensuring SAP data models support regulatory reporting, management insights, and integration with central data platforms.
- Review and govern data migration strategy, including data scope, quality rules, validation controls, reconciliation processes, and cutover readiness.
- Define and govern the integration architecture across S/4HANA RISE, SuccessFactors, workforce rostering solutions, and other third-party systems, ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable integrations aligned with enterprise architecture governance.
- Partner closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor to leadership on architectural trade-offs across value, risk, cost, and sustainability.
Key Requirements
- 10+ years of SAP experience, with at least 4 years focused on S/4HANA and SuccessFactors implementations in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on understanding of SAP Activate, fit-to-standard delivery, and Clean Core principles.
- Solid grounding in enterprise architecture governance, risk management, controls, and regulatory considerations.
- Strong knowledge of SAP integration patterns and tools (e.g. SAP CPI / Integration Suite) and SAP Fiori configuration and extensibility.
- Proven track record of governing System Integrators and influencing senior stakeholders through clear architectural direction and decision-making.
- SAP and/or enterprise architecture certifications (e.g. S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, BTP, TOGAF) are advantageous.
To Apply
Please submit your resume to Tahmid Bin Zafar at [Confidential Information], quoting the job title and reference number TZ35183. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Registration No: R1106832
Licence No: 16S8060
Desired Skills and Experience
10+ years of SAP experience, with at least 4 years focused on SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors implementations in complex enterprise environments
Proven experience owning end-to-end SAP solution architecture across S/4HANA RISE and SuccessFactors
Strong understanding of SAP Activate methodology, fit-to-standard delivery, and Clean Core principles
Demonstrated ability to act as architectural authority, reviewing, challenging, and approving System Integrator designs
Solid experience defining and governing SAP integration architecture, including SAP CPI / Integration Suite and third-party integrations
Strong knowledge of SAP Fiori configuration and extensibility, including in-app extensibility and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
Experience governing data migration strategy, data quality, reconciliation, and cutover readiness
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture governance, risk management, controls, and regulatory considerations
Proven ability to engage and influence senior business and technology stakeholders
SAP and/or enterprise architecture certifications (e.g. S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, BTP, TOGAF) preferred
