ARCHITECT SAP

Summary:

This key IT role is responsible for facilitating decisions and configuration for MM/PP integration in SAP. Support duties for day-today MM/PP stakeholders in the areas of Procurement, Supply Chain, Operations, and Manufacturing. Works with other SAP Functional Analysts, developers, IT management, and business personnel to understand, prioritize support, and development solutions for the business.

Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates user needs to create systems solutions that support overall business strategies. Documents system requirements, defines scope and objectives, and creates system specifications that drive system development and implementation. Work with operations leaders to identify roadmap technology and propose continuous improvement initiatives in the areas of MM/PP, Quality, and other areas.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting prototypes, developing functional specifications, data mapping, functional mapping, setting of configuration tables and setting of transaction / control tables in the SAP system as well as other business systems.
• Work with SAP development team and Power BI/Microsoft development team to ensure systems that meet the requirements of the functional specification.
• Responsible for the identification and resolution of gaps in the business processes and integrating new systems and business processes with existing ones.
• Involved in security/authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation.
• Involved in the installation and tuning of modifications, as well as archiving data.
• Works on multiple functional tasks that tend to be of medium technological complexity.
• Works on one or more projects as a team member.
• Communicates and coordinates with other team leads, business, and IT management members.
• Work with and train uses of new functionality.
• Viewed as a credible representative for business functions/processes who leads efforts to drive change.
• Influence business leadership and management in the decisions to improve and change business processes.
• Proactively identify and resolve highly complex business issues.
• Determine the best solution fit for the business.
• Work as an IT liaison with software solution vendors.
  • Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • none
  • Education Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree required (Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Disciplines) or related discipline and knowledge of SAP ECC or S/4 Hana.
  • Experience Requirements:
  • 1-3 years’ experience required in analyzing and gathering requirements to create user system solutions.
  • 1-3 years’ experience required in multiple SAP modules (MM, PP, FI, CO, SD, etc.).
  • Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint integration with SAP considered a plus.
  • SAP implementation experience a plus
  • 1-3 years of configuration/business experience
  • Competencies:
• Must possess thorough understanding of data analysis, database development, and reporting applications.
• Thorough understanding of the business processes and flows to enable the analysis of business requirements and the development of solutions for the business functions.
• Possesses an in-depth understanding of the business strategy of a particular function/process area and helps drive business strategy development.
• Exhibit the ability to take initiative and work independently.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, as well as computer skills are required.
• Light programming skills in the appropriate language to develop necessary “workarounds”, SAP query.

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Travel:

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.