Sr. SAP Basis & Security Architect

Job Title: Sr. SAP Basis & Security Architect

Location: Plano, Texas

Job Type: Full Time

Who we re looking for

The TFS Data and Technology Department is looking for a forward-leaning, highly technical, and collaborative Sr. SAP Platform Engineer. This person will be responsible for design and architecture for SAP Basis and Security teams. The Sr. SAP Platform Engineer will be responsible for:

• Work alongside platform and development teams and Domain architecture to architect and design SAP Platform applications following our standards.
• Maintain application artifacts like architecture & design views, decision records, and tech debts.
• Coach teams on the best development and configuration practices and our standards.
• Assist teams in setting up development practices and developing complex aspects.
• Assist teams in performing root cause analysis and improving application reliability.

In addition, this person will be responsible for building up the technical design for the SAP Platform Practice which includes:

• Design processes and associated artifact templates.
• Implementation standards, reference architectures, and implementation patterns for common use cases.
• Key frameworks implementation.
• New technologies investigation supporting development teams proof of concepts.

This role requires a strong knowledge of application development, distributed computing, cloud-native application design, on-premises application design, SAP Basis design, SAP Security design, database design, and systems implementation as this role is a Sr. SAP Platform Engineer crafting technical solutions to complex business needs.

Success in this role requires in-depth knowledge and hands-on technical skills, with strong leadership, development management, and communication skills. The ability to work effectively with delivery teams, various vendors, and business teams to develop solutions that meet technology standards and business needs is required. A strong financial system and specifically SAP S/4 Hana background and experience with associated applications & domains is required.

What you ll be doing

• Knowledge to drive standards around technologies and propose system solutions to meet business requirements.
• Demonstrated hands-on development of SAP Basis, SAP Security, SAP GRC, SAP Fiori, SAP SolMan, SAP Rise and SAP S/4 Hana on-premise.
• Experience with Redwood, Angular/React, REST, AWS services (EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3...), Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, streaming technologies such as Kafka, Github.
• Expertise in architecting and developing secure, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications in the cloud and on-premise.
• Ability to integrate data and technical system changes across the entire application portfolio.
• Ability to foster innovation among team members and drive best practices.
• Focus on automation opportunities, waste and cognitive load elimination, and solution simplification.
• Expertise in refactoring common patterns in frameworks and platforms.
• Act as liaison with the vendors, development teams, and business users to create and finalize end-to-end technical solutions.
• Sharp technical acumen to solve issues and evolve the SAP infrastructure and architecture.
• Assess, design, and deliver on architecture that supports high availability and scalability.
• Ability to work efficiently and demonstrate a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Relentless desire for innovation and driving high standards, balanced with business needs and customer expectations.

What you bring

• 10+ years of hands-on applications architecture and lifecycle development experience.
• 3+ years of experience as an SAP Platform Engineer or architect.
• 5+ years of experience architecting SAP S/4 Hana on-premise in a private cloud.
• 5+ years of experience developing a cloud-native application (AWS and SalesForce a plus).
• Proficiency of SAP Platform services implementation.
• Mastery of design principles, design patterns, refactoring, and automation testing.
• Knowledge of Domain Driven Design.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP, DataSphere and SQL/NoSQL database design.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to present design concepts clearly and persuasively to colleagues, partners, stakeholders, and especially to senior executives.
• Demonstrated success as a SAP Basis and Security Engineer or Architect on both large and small projects and enterprise level platforms.
• Demonstrated continued knowledge acquisition of emerging technologies.