Enterprise Architect - Integration (SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing)

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• SAP S/4HANA integration architecture across manufacturing, supply chain, finance, warehouse, quality, plant maintenance, PLM, MES, and partner ecosystems
• SAP Integration Suite, Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh, SAP BTP, and hybrid integration patterns
• REST, OData, SOAP, IDoc, RFC/BAPI, JMS, SFTP, AS2, EDI/X12/EDIFACT, event-driven, and API-led integration
• Manufacturing integration connecting SAP S/4HANA with MES, PLM, EWM/WMS, TMS, shop-floor, quality, logistics, supplier, and customer platforms
• SAP Cloud ALM for implementation governance, requirements and test traceability, integration and operations monitoring, issue management, and deployment readiness
• Clean-core principles, released APIs, standard integration content, side-by-side extensions on SAP BTP, and reduction of unnecessary point-to-point integrations
• SAP Best Practices and fit-to-standard design for SAP S/4HANA, including SAP Fiori, embedded analytics, automation, eventing, and SAP Business AI
• Security, resilience, observability, performance, error handling, interface lifecycle governance, and enterprise integration standards
• B2B/EDI partner onboarding, mapping, acknowledgments, managed file transfer, monitoring, and exception handling

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define the target-state integration architecture, roadmap, standards, reusable patterns, and governance for the SAP S/4HANA program
• Lead end-to-end architecture across SAP and non-SAP applications, manufacturing systems, plants, trading partners, data platforms, and cloud services
• Establish clean-core guardrails by prioritizing SAP standard content, released APIs and events, SAP Integration Suite, and decoupled extensions on SAP BTP
• Review solution designs and interface specifications for scalability, security, reliability, performance, supportability, and adherence to SAP S/4HANA best practices
• Use SAP Cloud ALM for delivery visibility, requirements and test traceability, monitoring, integration health, and issue and action governance
• Partner with enterprise, solution, security, data, infrastructure, Basis, functional, and manufacturing teams to resolve cross-domain architecture decisions
• Lead integration rationalization, technical-debt reduction, platform modernization, and migration from legacy middleware or tightly coupled interfaces
• Guide onsite and offshore teams through design, build, testing, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and operational handover
• Assess relevant SAP S/4HANA innovations for manufacturing while protecting upgradeability and clean-core compliance
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs clearly to technical teams and executive stakeholders

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

Strategic architecture leadership; executive stakeholder management; facilitation and decision governance; global team leadership; vendor coordination; risk and dependency management; strong written and verbal communication.