SAP Enterprise Architect - Contract - Outside IR35

SAP Enterprise Architect - Contract - Outside IR35

Posted 1 day ago by 1767749274

Negotiable
Outside
Undetermined
England

Summary: The role of Enterprise Architect focuses on delivering a compliant archiving solution for Legacy SAP S/4HANA Cloud data, requiring both pre-award and post-award engagement with clients. The successful candidate will provide architectural leadership and ensure the project's technical and compliance strategies are validated. This position demands a strong background in enterprise architecture and experience with compliant archiving platforms. The architect will also lead the technical team through the design and implementation phases of the project.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Define the end-to-end archiving strategy for 3-4 years of Legacy S/4HANA Cloud data.
  • Design a secure, read-only, audit-compliant archive architecture.
  • Lead the data extraction, validation, and reconciliation approach across Finance, Projects, Assets, and master data.
  • Establish role-based access models for historical data retrieval.
  • Ensure compliance with data retention, legal hold, and tamper-proofing requirements.
  • Provide architectural assurance for Legacy system decommissioning readiness.

Key Skills:

  • Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data extraction and system retirement.
  • Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture for ERP and data lifecycle programmes.
  • Delivery experience with compliant archiving platforms (eg SAP ILM, OpenText, PBS, or equivalent).
  • Deep knowledge of financial and asset accounting structures and project data in SAP.
  • Ability to operate credibly with CIO, Finance, Audit, and Compliance stakeholders.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: England

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Enterprise Architect - SAP S/4HANA Legacy Data Archiving - Contractor - Outside IR35

Role purpose:

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to play a pivotal, client-facing role in shaping and delivering a compliant archiving solution for Legacy SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data. This role is critical both pre-award and post-award of the engagement.

Immediate requirement:

The successful candidate must be available to join an initial Microsoft Teams session on Thursday 8th at 2:30pm with our client to:

  • Provide expert input on the proposed archiving approach.
  • Validate the technical and compliance strategy.
  • Strengthen our proposal through credible architectural leadership.

Post-award responsibility:

Subject to the project being awarded, the Enterprise Architect will then:

  • Take overall architectural ownership of the delivery.
  • Lead the technical team through design and implementation.
  • Act as the primary architectural authority for the client throughout the engagement.

Key responsibilities:

  • Define the end-to-end archiving strategy for 3-4 years of Legacy S/4HANA Cloud data.
  • Design a secure, read-only, audit-compliant archive architecture.
  • Lead the data extraction, validation, and reconciliation approach across Finance, Projects, Assets, and master data.
  • Establish role-based access models for historical data retrieval.
  • Ensure compliance with data retention, legal hold, and tamper-proofing requirements.
  • Provide architectural assurance for Legacy system decommissioning readiness.

Required expertise:

  • Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) data extraction and system retirement.
  • Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture for ERP and data lifecycle programmes.
  • Delivery experience with compliant archiving platforms (eg SAP ILM, OpenText, PBS, or equivalent).
  • Deep knowledge of financial and asset accounting structures and project data in SAP.
  • Ability to operate credibly with CIO, Finance, Audit, and Compliance stakeholders.

The Enterprise Architect will be instrumental in:

  • Helping us win the engagement through authoritative technical leadership.
  • Ensuring the client can retire SAP S/4HANA Cloud with no operational dependency.
  • Delivering a secure, low-cost, audit-ready archive solution.
  • Establishing a clean, compliant target architecture for the future.