Location: Remote, some trips to Cleveland, OH
Experience: 15+ Years
Visa: EAD, L2, E2, TN, (No H1B & OPT)
Job Description:
Become client's go-to SAP data architect: a senior, business-savvy leader delivering simple, scalable, governed and future-ready solutions, with clear architectural boundaries and effective interoperability between SAP Datasphere and Microsoft Fabric. Combine deep Datasphere and SAP functional expertise with Fabric familiarity and the communication skills to make and drive sound enterprise architecture decisions supporting Analytics (Reporting) solutions.
Lead solution architecture for SAP-centric enterprise data across SAP Datasphere, Microsoft Fabric, SAP applications and archives in support of Analytics (Reporting) solutions. Combine SAP functional understanding, data architecture and modeling with business-facing leadership to translate reporting requirements into scalable designs and determine where data resides, how it is modeled and how it flows into reports.
Key Accountabilities:
Solution Architecture & Design
Own end-to-end SAP data and analytics architecture across Datasphere, Fabric, SAP S/4HANA, other SAP applications and archives; translate requirements into pragmatic integration, semantic modeling and data lifecycle designs.
Decide what belongs in Datasphere, Fabric and source/archive platforms to minimize duplication and complexity. Establish reusable patterns and guardrails for acquisition, replication, transformation, modeling, consumption, retention and archival.
SAP Functional & Data Expertise
Apply hands-on Datasphere expertise in integration, modeling, semantic layers, spaces, analytic models and the broader SAP ecosystem. Understand modern SAP extraction and consumption approaches, including implications of using SAP data outside SAP.
Understand business processes and underlying data across Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance and Master Data, not just SAP technology.
Microsoft Fabric & Enterprise Data Architecture
Architect Fabric and OneLake as the enterprise lakehouse, with Datasphere providing SAP-focused data and semantic capabilities; define integration and interoperability patterns between them.
Align designs with enterprise standards for governance, security, data quality, lineage, performance, scalability and cost.
Leadership & Business Partnership
Serve as architecture leader and trusted advisor to business leaders, process owners, analysts, data teams, SAP functional teams and technology partners. Challenge requirements constructively, balancing business value, simplicity, performance, maintainability and cost.
Explain architectural options, trade-offs and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences; direct internal teams, implementation partners and developers through technical leadership and design oversight.
Required Qualifications:
10+ years in SAP, enterprise data, analytics or related architecture roles, with demonstrated Solution Architect, Data Architect or SAP Data Architect experience designing end-to-end enterprise solutions rather than solely development.
Deep SAP Datasphere expertise across architecture, modeling, integration and semantic capabilities; strong SAP functional-process and data-model understanding, preferably across multiple domains.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, lakehouse architecture and SAP-to-Microsoft integration patterns; strong data architecture, dimensional/semantic modeling, integration, data lifecycle and archival capabilities.
Exceptional communication, facilitation, stakeholder management and architecture storytelling; proven ability to lead architecture decisions, challenge assumptions and drive teams toward a recommended solution.
Highly Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in chemicals, process manufacturing or broader manufacturing; SAP S/4HANA transformation environments and large-scale enterprise data landscapes.
Familiarity with SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Business Data Cloud; experience establishing architecture principles and governance across complex hybrid SAP + Microsoft environments.
Must Have:
Datasphere Architect
Understanding of Microsoft Fabric products
