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Project Architect – SAP S/4HANA for Utilities NEW

Pasadena, California
Steve Ackley

Project Architect – SAP S/4HANA for Utilities
Location:

  • Hybrid: Onsite TuesdayThursday; remote other days
  • Preferred locations: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO
  • Some travel required (quarterly)
  • Core hours: 9 AM 4 PM CST
  • 40-hour work week

Role Overview

Our client is undertaking a major Customer Information System (CIS) modernization initiative, transitioning from a legacy billing environment to SAP S/4HANA for Utilities (IS-U) and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud for customer service and CRM capabilities.

This is a large-scale, multi-year transformation program. The Project Architect will design and govern end-to-end solutions across SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and SAP Clean Core principles.

The ideal candidate brings a strong architecture background and experience designing solutions across complex hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Experience with SAP S/4HANA functionality and technologies, SAP BTP, SAP data platforms, Salesforce, and AWS is highly desirable.

Project Context

  • Major CIS modernization and digital transformation initiative
  • Transition from a legacy customer information environment to SAP S/4HANA Utilities and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud
  • Long-term engagement with potential for conversion
  • Work as part of the client’s Enterprise Architecture team
  • Blueprinting, solution architecture, governance, and implementation validation

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain end-to-end solution architecture for key financial, payment, collections, and customer-related business processes across enterprise systems including SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and supporting platforms
  • Minimize customizations and enforce SAP Clean Core principles
  • Identify emerging technology capabilities and architectural patterns that may support business requirements
  • Align solutions with enterprise architecture standards and guidelines
  • Govern architectural standards and best practices
  • Lead solution design and implementation activities to ensure development aligns with approved architecture
  • Collaborate with functional and technical teams across the organization
  • Ensure solutions provide appropriate resiliency, scalability, security, and performance
  • Conduct architecture reviews and present solutions to architecture governance teams
  • Validate implementations against approved architectural designs

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of architecture experience
  • 2+ years of SAP S/4HANA Utilities (IS-U) experience
  • 2+ years of SAP BTP and Integration Suite experience
  • 4+ years of AWS experience
  • Expertise in enterprise-level solution architecture across multiple systems, including hybrid cloud environments
  • Strong architectural governance and solutioning experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience
  • SAP Certified Solution Architect or Technology Professional
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, TOGAF, and LeanIX
  • Utility industry experience

Technical Skills

  • Integration and data architecture, including SAP BTP, AWS, and IBM ACE
  • Cloud and hybrid architecture, with AWS preferred
  • End-to-end solution architecture across complex enterprise ecosystems
  • Architecture option analysis, including developing alternatives and making recommendations
  • Strong understanding of security, scalability, observability, resiliency, and performance design

Non-Technical Skills

  • Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and technical teams
  • Strong business acumen and ability to align architectural decisions with strategic objectives
  • Independent, accountable, and collaborative
  • Comfortable working across organizational teams, partners, and vendors

This is an opportunity to play a key architectural role in a significant enterprise technology transformation involving SAP, Salesforce, cloud, integration, and modern enterprise architecture practices.

Job Overview