SAP Basis Lead Solution Architect

Swagelok is a global organization and one of the largest employers of manufacturing talent in Northeast Ohio. We are driven by our core values of Quality, Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Customer Focus, Innovation, and Continuous Improvement, which are demonstrated through our daily actions. For over 75 years, our dedication to our core values has been the foundation for our success. Our products have been up into space, down to the bottom of the ocean, and everywhere in between. That same dedication spans to our customers.

Throughout our organization we demonstrate a commitment to these values and those we bring onboard. Whether you want to grow in your role or explore broad opportunities and develop new skills-you'll thrive in a culture that promotes learning and development.

We strive to be a company where we all can do our best work with a true sense of purpose and belonging.

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We hope you'll consider joining our team.

As a senior member of the IT organization, the Lead SAP Basis Architect provides strategic technical leadership for the design, evolution, and governance of the company's hybrid SAP application landscape. This role partners closely with business leaders, enterprise architects, delivery teams, and external partners to define and execute technology strategies that support the organization's business objectives and technology strategy.

The architect combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen, translating complex technical challenges into scalable, secure, high performing, strategic and sustainable solutions. They lead architecture decisions across SAP platforms, integration, and supporting technologies, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, roadmaps, and long-term business strategy. This role drives platform modernization initiatives, establishes architecture best practices, and guides the delivery of complex programs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilites:

Core Responsibilities

• Own and lead enterprise-wide SAP technical architecture across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, including application, integration, infrastructure, and data layers, ensuring alignment with strategic roadmaps and enterprise platforms.

• Drive solution design and architecture for large, complex initiatives, including system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and platform modernization, ensuring scalability, performance, resilience, and cost optimization.

• Lead technical strategy and roadmap development, defining current-state, future-state (FROM-TO), and transition architectures across a diverse application portfolio (manufacturing, supply chain, analytics, HR, integrations).

• Provide thought leadership on emerging SAP and industry technologies, evaluating, recommending, and guiding adoption of innovative solutions aligned to business objectives and long-term architecture direction.

• Ensure end-to-end system design quality, including performance, reliability, security, usability, and flexibility to support future change across an integrated and highly interdependent SAP ecosystem.

• Evaluate and rationalize application and add-on landscape, guiding decisions to retain, retire, upgrade, or replace components in alignment with future architecture.

• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives, acting as a catalyst for change across systems, processes, and technologies.

Standards, Governance & Operational Excellence

• Define and enforce architecture standards, best practices, and governance processes to ensure consistency, maintainability, and quality across all SAP solutions.

• Optimize system performance and operational efficiency, including proactive identification and resolution of architectural and technical bottlenecks.

• Guide development and BASIS teams, providing deep technical expertise, troubleshooting support, and ensuring alignment to architecture principles and standards.

Collaboration, Leadership & Influence

• Partner with senior leadership, business stakeholders, and program teams to translate business strategy into technology solutions and architecture decisions.

• Build and manage strategic relationships with vendors and partners, influencing product direction, resolving issues, and driving value from external engagements.

• Mentor and develop technical talent, building architecture capabilities within the organization and ensuring knowledge transfer across teams.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent or equivalent work experience

• More than 12 + years of experience in enterprise projects and 5-8 years of relevant enterprise solution architecture experience, with 3-5 years of experience in leading architecture efforts for legacy system modernization and application portfolio rationalization.

• Direct experience in implementing SAP ERP

• Strong business process knowledge (design, improvement & integration)

• Experience in leading change management

• Strong written and oral communications skills

• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills to meet deadlines

• Subject matter expert in project management execution of multiple enterprise level, mid to large sized projects; experience in participating in multi-discipline, high-performance work teams/groups and demonstrated competency in developing efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.

• Expert in the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of large-scale systems.

• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, including experience in presenting material to senior management

• Demonstrated use of advanced problem-solving skills, system thinking, business skills, solid verbal and written communication skills, excellent relationship building skills, as well as strong leadership and team management skills.

• Extensive understanding both long-term and short-term 'big-picture' perspectives.

• Ability to understand the business architecture, processes and strategies.

• Strategic thinking and leadership with excellent abilities in relationship management.

• Excellent analytical, planning, and communication skills.

• Ability to work collaboratively with others and facilitate problem resolution.

• Ability to anticipate future IT direction to support Corporate Initiatives.

• Firm sense of accountability and leadership

• Desire to understand our businesses and users

Working conditions and/or Physical Requirements:

• Working conditions associated with normal office environment.
• Ability to operate standard office equipment (e.g., computer, telephone, copier, printer, etc.).
• Ability to effectively communicate in both small and large groups and settings.
• Ability to traverse between multiple locations in Ohio and Pennsylvania as needed.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards.

Swagelok provides a comprehensive package of valuable benefits called Total Rewards focused on health and wellness, compensation, retirement planning, and supplemental rewards.

To apply:

1. Click 'Apply Now' to the role of interest, upload your resume and complete the application.

2. Those that match our qualifications will be contacted to schedule a phone interview.

Congratulations on taking the first step to Be Connected. Be Valued. Be You.

Swagelok is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants are selected without regard to race, ethnicity, creed, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, pregnancy-related medical conditions, age, national origin or ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran/military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Swagelok will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, and Ohio state law.

This job summary is intended to be brief and does not list all the duties for this position. Nothing in this job description should be construed as an express or implied contract of employment. Swagelok is an at-will employer, which means that either party is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time, without any advanced notice, for any reason or no reason.

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