SAP Enterprise Architect

This is a strategic freelance opportunity for a senior architect capable of bridging business and IT stakeholders across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Finance domains. The consultant will play a key role in defining the enterprise architecture roadmap, ensuring process alignment, and driving the end-to-end S/4HANA transformation.

• SAP Enterprise Architect
• South of Paris, France - minimum 2 days onsite per week
• Freelance - LONG TERM
• Start date: ASAP
• Long-term transformation program
• Greenfield SAP S/4HANA On-Premise implementation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise architecture activities across the SAP S/4HANA transformation program
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and IT delivery teams
• Define and align target operating models across:
  • Supply Chain
  • Manufacturing
  • Finance
• Drive end-to-end business process harmonization and integration
• Support solution design workshops with business and system integrators
• Ensure alignment between enterprise architecture, SAP capabilities, and business objectives
• Define governance, standards, and architectural principles for the S/4HANA landscape
• Collaborate with program leadership, PMO, and functional streams
• Support roadmap planning, integration strategy, and deployment governance
• Challenge and validate solution designs proposed by implementation partners
• Identify risks, dependencies, and transformation impacts across business functions

Required Experience

• Extensive experience as SAP Enterprise Architect on large-scale transformation programs
• Strong expertise in SAP S/4HANA, ideally on greenfield implementations
• Proven experience across:
  • Supply Chain
  • Manufacturing
  • Finance processes
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration and end-to-end business architecture
• Experience working in complex international industrial/manufacturing environments
• Ability to communicate effectively with both executive business stakeholders and technical teams
• Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills
• Experience working with system integrators and offshore delivery models