SAP Solution Team Lead

Why this role exists:

The SAP Solution Team Lead defines and governs the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA solution architecture. It ensures compliance, secure integrations, and scalable enterprise designs that are directly aligned to business outcomes. This role serves as the design authority across the SAP S/4HANA landscape, ensuring that complex, cross-domain solution patterns meet enterprise standards for data, integration, and extensibility.

Where you will make a difference:

In this role you will:

Architecture & Design Governance

• Act as the design authority across SAP S/4HANA and BTP landscapes.
• Define enterprise standards for SAP data, integration, and extensibility.
• Perform solution designs and design reviews, providing necessary governance approvals.
• Ensure clean core compliance is maintained across the landscape.

Operational Excellence & Delivery Support:

• Support delivery teams and resolve complex design issues as they arise.
• Ensure solution designs meet business, performance, and architecture standards.
• Deliver solutions in line with roadmap priorities.
• Maintain high performance by achieving key performance indicators related to design quality and accuracy.

Strategic Leadership:

• Solve complex, cross-domain problems and establish new solution patterns.
• Lead end-to-end SAP solution architecture aligned to business outcomes.
• Manage and coach the team to ensure the function retains appropriately qualified expertise to meet business plans.

Governance & Compliance:

• Integrate compliance requirements into business practices and planning.
• Conduct all tasks and activities in accordance with all applicable laws.
• Ensure a safe site by implementing and evaluating safe work practices.

Who you will be working with:

• Internal Leadership: SAP Platform Owner, C-Suite, and various Heads of departments.
• Internal Peer Architects: SAP BTP Architect and SAP Operations Manager.
• Technical & Business Teams: Business Process Owners, PMO, SAP BASIS and Security Teams, Integration and Development Teams, and the Enterprise Architecture Team.
• External Partners: SAP and System Integrators

What success looks like:

• Design Quality: Achieving a Design Approval First Pass rate > 95% and keeping Defect Leakage from Design < 5%.
• Efficiency: Maintaining a Design Turnaround Time of < 5 days.
• Compliance: Ensuring Clean Core Compliance remains > 90%.
• Safety: Accountable for a safe site every day by implementing and evaluating safe work practices.

How you will lead:

Line Manager

• Leads a culture based on our Officeworks values and behaviours
• Builds capability and delivers results across a diverse global workforce.
• Demonstrates resilience, has determination and drive to persist through challenge
• Is self-aware; has humility and is self-reflective; understands how to bring out the best in self and others
• Strong sense of personal and team accountability, drives a genuine commitment to their teams and individual development
• Proactively contributes to a safe working environment, escalates appropriately if there are unsafe conditions or inappropriate behaviour
• Operates in line with applicable Officeworks company policies and Code of Conduct

Qualifications and work experience:

Essential

• Education: Bachelors degree in I.T. or Engineering.
• Experience: Minimum 10 years of SAP solution architecture experience.
• Skills: Expertise in enterprise integration design, analytical thinking, and strategic thinking.
• Communication: Strong facilitation and communication skills to work across C-Suite and technical levels.
• Technology Proficiency: SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP Cloud ALM / Solution Manager, Signavio, LeanIX, Jira, and Confluence.

Preferred:

• Education: Postgraduate degree.