SAP Solution Architect

Winnipeg, MB

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• Defined-benefit pension plan for long-term financial security.
• Nine-day work cycle, typically resulting in every other Monday off to support a balanced approach to work, family life and community.
• Flex-time and partially remote work schedule (providing the option to work remotely 3 days per 2-week period), depending on nature of work, operational requirements and work location.

• Provide SAP functional and architectural leadership within the project team, acting as the team lead for solution architecture across ECC and S/4HANA transition phases.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Owners, SAP Business Systems Analysts, and SAP technical teams to produce an optimal, high-level conceptual SAP design for Manitoba Hydro.
• Act as the primary SAP department point of contact in the work intake process, determining SAP solutions, estimating SAP resource effort, and assessing service delivery impacts.
• Be responsible for identifying target applications and maintaining the target SAP application and integration landscape, including on-premise, private cloud, and SAP cloud solutions.
• Approve functional architecture designs and lead SAP functional design sessions with the broader team, including infrastructure, integration, security, and development teams.
• Leverage the existing program roadmap, charter, and guiding principles to recommend solutions, initiatives, and provide input on key decisions for business prioritization and requirements.
• Create and document SAP solution architecture using Business Process Documents (BPDs), Configuration Rationale Documents (CRDs), and other required artifacts.
• Communicate effectively with project and program leadership regarding functional and technical architecture design decisions.
• Understand Manitoba Hydro requirements and support RFx (RFI/RFQ/RFP) activities in support of the SAP roadmap.
• Participate in meetings with Manitoba Hydro business unit stakeholders during high-level scoping and design activities.
• Collaborate with the implementation partner SAP Solution Architect and SAP Basis team to define, review, and approve key deliverables, including the Technical Architecture Design document.
• Define and ensure that all functional requirements and integrations are met for each project phase, including integrations between S/4HANA, ECC (as applicable), SuccessFactors, ECP, Ariba, and non-SAP systems.
• Partner with business process owners, champions, and other key stakeholders to understand high-level requirements and business objectives within a regulated utilities environment.
• Coordinate with functional, technical, and deployment leads on process, solution, data, integration, architecture, development, security and identity management, and reporting decisions.
• Coordinate troubleshooting and performance analysis initiatives for implemented SAP solutions.

• A four year degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Administration, or Information Management from a university of recognized standing with a minimum of five years of directly applicable systems analysis, systems architecture, and project experience, including a minimum of three years of computer systems analysis/architecture experience;
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• A two year diploma in Computer Programming Technology or Business Administration from an institute of recognized standing with a minimum of seven years of directly applicable systems analysis, systems architecture, and programming experience, including a minimum of three years of computer systems analysis/architecture experience.
• Possess strong strategic and tactical planning skills.
• Demonstrated ability to make and implement well-reasoned decisions; organized, analytical, self-motivated, with strong out-of-the-box thinking abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues, both strategic and tactical, in the best overall interests of the Corporation.
• Demonstrated understanding of SAP S/4HANA, SAP Private Cloud architectures, and hybrid SAP integration patterns, including on-premise and SAP cloud solutions.
• Overall solution architecture expertise in more than one functional workstream (e.g. FI/CO, SD, IS-U, ECP, SuccessFactors, EWM, Ariba).
• Expertise in SAP S/4HANA with end-to-end implementation or conversion experience, including ECC to S/4HANA transformation.
• Experience participating in SAP implementation RFx (RFI/RFQ/RFP) activities as a solution architect responsible for designing end-to-end SAP solutions.
• Prior solution delivery or program experience (minimum 3–4 years within Utilities is an asset, overall 10–14 years of IT/SAP experience) with exposure to SAP implementation and delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to document and model complex business processes.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with staff at all levels of the organization.