Enterprise Architect - SAP

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people - and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer's isn't just one of Forbes' Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazer's is well-established, and it's no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazer's has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity, as well as for Women and Parents & Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer's, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for managing the transformation and optimization initiatives and serves as a leader in applying existing, new and emerging technologies to transform and optimize the business and operating model of the organization. Enterprise Architects lead the Enterprise Architecture practice and its initiatives to enable the organization to better respond to business unit and customer needs and the changing environment. The Enterprise Architect will drive the overall enterprise architecture programs, frameworks, guiding principles, and maintains technology standards and design best practices. Ultimately, the Enterprise Architect ensures that solutions are resilient, scalable, and maintainable, meeting the organization's long-term objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

Facilitates business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organization's business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.

Maintains and evangelizes technology standards and guidelines and identify application and technology rationalization opportunities.

Promotes modern technical and design best practices and trends, and act as a visionary to continue to progress architectural direction for future projects.

Adapts to changing business and operating models.

Define and maintain the SAP enterprise technology and architecture strategy in alignment with business goals

Architect and document technical blueprints for SAP S / 4HANA implementations, detailing system architecture, data models, integration interfaces, and technical configurations

Define technology strategy and roadmap to evolve SAP S / 4HANA implementation and its evolution in broader SGWS technology landscape.

Develop precise technical specifications and conceptual solution designs for build and enhancement activities, providing clear guidance to development and engineering teams

Conduct architecture reviews ensuring technical, functional and non-functional requirements are covered in solution design and implementation and adheres to SGWS architecture and technology standards.

Provide leadership guidance to SAP Domain Architects.

Contribute to developing References Architectures and reusable design patterns to support composable and loosely coupled architecture for enterprise applications that involve accessing SAP S4 / HANA.

Analyze infrastructure platforms, hardware requirements, and user interaction models to inform technical solution design based on both functional and technical criteria

Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and technical components for SAP S / 4HANA solutions

Maintain expert-level knowledge of the SAP S / 4HANA platform, including module capabilities, technical features, and supported business processes.

Oversee technical design, testing, and modification phases to confirm that solution architecture meets all technical and quality requirements

Minimum Qualifications / Requirements

Master's or Bachelor's degree in related field (e.g., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, System Analysis, etc.) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Typically, 10+ years of experience in IT and business / industry including strategic and operations planning

10+ years of direct experience with SAP ERP and other SAP products.

Hands-on experience in architecting and implementing SAP ERP systems in large enterprises.

Expert level understanding of enterprise technology landscape including Cloud technologies, Integration patterns and middleware, Customer facing digital applications, etc.

2-5 years conducting focused architecture work; strategic visioning, developing artifacts, road-mapping, continues improvement, solutioning, influencing and facilitating architecture decisions, coaching teams and people.

Experience in working in multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.

Native-level proficiency / fluent in English.

Experience in DevOps and Agile technology environments (preferred).

Preferred Skills

Advanced knowledge of system dev. life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, SAFe, agile, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).

Strong knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.

Proficient knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

Solid knowledge of basic graphical modeling approaches, tools, and model repositories.

Proven skills in maintaining good relationships with IT and the business who have the most impact and influence on the architecture, managing stakeholder expectations and impacts of the architecture work.

Proficient skills in providing the necessary leadership for tasks related to the development of an enterprise's solution architecture, such as governance, creating a portfolio roadmap, and monitoring the current state with the ability to support different development approaches.

Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to communicate with business acumen and work with diverse stakeholders, including those in an outsourced environment.

Proven ability to analyze and translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into information architecture requirements.

Proven ability to support development of teammates by sharing knowledge and experience.

Physical Demands

Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing / keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device

Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

May require occasional lifting / lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action / EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and / or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.