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.