Job Purpose and primary objectives: SAP Solution architect – Retail IS

Key responsibilities:

• Translating business requirements into comprehensive SAP solution designs, leading technical vision, and ensuring successful integration across various business processes

• Responsible for the design, build and implementation of complex Retail solutions from an application and business process standpoint

• Partner with key stakeholders to transform business processes to improve key performance indicators (KPI) in the retail industry

• Work with all team leads to design, build and implement complex Retail solutions

• Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate Retail system solutions

• Identify, interpret, validate and document customer requirements including the facilitation of workshops to collect business requirements

• Act as liaison with client for troubleshooting: investigate, analyze, and solve software problems

• Works closely with the client IT organization and client Process Owners to ensure system and process integrity of the Template and to drive adherence to the template - ensuring that only critical localization requirements are approved

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• Minimum of 10-12 Years of experience in working with IT Services or products.

• Should have 8+ years of experience in working with SAP in either of the Retail Functional modules

o SAP Retail IS

• Proven experience in SAP solution architecture and design, with deep knowledge of SAP modules and platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP)

• Very Good understanding of the SAP modules in Retail IS

• Involved in end to end phases of SAP implementation projects, played client facing roles and managed client workshops.

• Acts as the custodian of the solution validates proposed changes and assesses impacts.

• Support SAP deployment teams in prepare phase and / or fit-gap as needed for short periods of time expected to lead fit-gap workshops and explanation of the template.

• Ensures business requirements are translated into complete and accurate system specifications.

• Manages the process to translate gaps into RICEFW objects and estimates effort / impact of each object.

• Responsible for the assessment, management and delivery of all configuration changes in approved Change Requests (excluding Global Configuration requirements); the provision of updates to the Global Configuration Document.

• Creates / review all functional requirements specification and interface requirements specifications, test scenarios, training materials required for template localizations