Data Architect, S/4HANA Transition, Remote position
$132,400–$251,600 year
RemoteArizona, United States or Texas, United States
Job Summary
Own the enterprise data architecture for the ECC to S/4HANA transition, defining principles, reference architectures, and guardrails for data domains including Finance, Supply Chain, and Procure-to-Pay. Design the bridge reporting strategy that harmonizes ECC and S/4HANA datasets to produce consistent KPI definitions and cross-system analytics, including semantic layers and data virtualization. Model canonical and system-specific data, establish golden sources, and define integration patterns between SAP and the analytical stack while overseeing ETL/ELT pipelines using SAP BusinessObjects Data Services. Create and maintain architecture artifacts aligned to TOGAF ADM phases A–D and coach delivery teams to ensure solutions conform to strategy during the phased migration. This senior individual contributor partners with product managers and enterprise architects to guide solution teams across the full lifecycle from planning through deployment.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship
- University Degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum 10 years prior relevant experience
- Advanced Degree in a related field
- Minimum 7 years' experience (if holding an Advanced Degree)
- Experience with the SAP ECC data model (core modules and common customizations/extensions)
- Experience with the SAP S/4HANA data model, including CDS views, embedded analytics concepts, and differences from ECC
- Experience in data architecture/engineering with end‐to‐end ownership of enterprise data platforms
- Experience with Snowflake (data modeling for analytics, performance tuning, governance, cost optimization)
- Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) (modeling, security, stories, planning) and SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS) for ETL/ELT
- Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud / SAP Datasphere for semantic modeling, data federation/replication, and governance
- Experience with designing bridge/transition architectures that support multi‐system reporting during large transformations
- TOGAF‐certified
- Practiced in using the TOGAF framework to build and communicate architecture to business and technical stakeholders
- Experience with formal architecture modeling (UML, BPMN, SysML, ArchiMate)
- Executive presence and strong communication skills; comfortable leading change across large initiatives and organizations
- Ability to dive deep into how the business creates value and translate that into data architectures and roadmaps
- Experience across the full IT lifecycle (planning, design, deployment, operations) and with cross‐functional delivery teams
- Strong grounding in data modeling, data warehousing, and data integration techniques
- Prior experience as a BI analyst, data scientist, software developer, or system administrator
- Demonstrated ability to use abstraction and simplification to communicate complex systems to different audiences
- Strong influencing and relationship skills to develop and maintain key partnerships
- Location proximity to major Raytheon site preferred e.g. Tucson AZ, Andover MA, or McKinney / Richardson TX
- Reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories)
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.