Project Architect - SAP S/4HANA for Utilities
Location:
- Hybrid: Onsite Tuesday–Thursday; remote other days
- Preferred locations: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO
- Some travel required (quarterly)
- Core hours: 9 AM – 4 PM CST
- 40-hour work week
Role Overview
Our client is undertaking a major Customer Information System (CIS) modernization initiative, transitioning from a legacy billing environment to SAP S/4HANA for Utilities (IS-U) and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud for customer service and CRM capabilities.
This is a large-scale, multi-year transformation program. The Project Architect will design and govern end-to-end solutions across SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and SAP Clean Core principles.
The ideal candidate brings a strong architecture background and experience designing solutions across complex hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Experience with SAP S/4HANA functionality and technologies, SAP BTP, SAP data platforms, Salesforce, and AWS is highly desirable.
Project Context
- Major CIS modernization and digital transformation initiative
- Transition from a legacy customer information environment to SAP S/4HANA Utilities and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud
- Long-term engagement with potential for conversion
- Work as part of the client's Enterprise Architecture team
- Blueprinting, solution architecture, governance, and implementation validation
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain end-to-end solution architecture for key financial, payment, collections, and customer-related business processes across enterprise systems including SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and supporting platforms
- Minimize customizations and enforce SAP Clean Core principles
- Identify emerging technology capabilities and architectural patterns that may support business requirements
- Align solutions with enterprise architecture standards and guidelines
- Govern architectural standards and best practices
- Lead solution design and implementation activities to ensure development aligns with approved architecture
- Collaborate with functional and technical teams across the organization
- Ensure solutions provide appropriate resiliency, scalability, security, and performance
- Conduct architecture reviews and present solutions to architecture governance teams
- Validate implementations against approved architectural designs
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of architecture experience
- 2+ years of SAP S/4HANA Utilities (IS-U) experience
- 2+ years of SAP BTP and Integration Suite experience
- 4+ years of AWS experience
- Expertise in enterprise-level solution architecture across multiple systems, including hybrid cloud environments
- Strong architectural governance and solutioning experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience
- SAP Certified Solution Architect or Technology Professional
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, TOGAF, and LeanIX
- Utility industry experience
Technical Skills
- Integration and data architecture, including SAP BTP, AWS, and IBM ACE
- Cloud and hybrid architecture, with AWS preferred
- End-to-end solution architecture across complex enterprise ecosystems
- Architecture option analysis, including developing alternatives and making recommendations
- Strong understanding of security, scalability, observability, resiliency, and performance design
Non-Technical Skills
- Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and technical teams
- Strong business acumen and ability to align architectural decisions with strategic objectives
- Independent, accountable, and collaborative
- Comfortable working across organizational teams, partners, and vendors
This is an opportunity to play a key architectural role in a significant enterprise technology transformation involving SAP, Salesforce, cloud, integration, and modern enterprise architecture practices.