Required Skills: SAP IS-Oil, IS-Oil, Finance, data,
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Review, challenge, and shape the end-to-end S/4HANA solution roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and target architecture.
- Validate solution designs against business requirements, end-to-end processes, architecture principles, and S/4HANA best practices.
- Provide architecture and functional guidance across S/4HANA Logistics and IS-Oil, including integration with Finance and surrounding enterprise applications.
- Provide functional assurance across key logistics processes such as Procure-to-Pay, Inventory & Warehouse Management, Order-to-Cash, Transportation, Supply Chain, and Materials Management.
- Assess Oil & Gas-specific logistics requirements, including hydrocarbon supply and distribution, product movements, bulk logistics, inventory, quantity conversion, terminal/depot processes, and associated commercial processes.
- Evaluate cross-functional solution decisions and identify gaps, dependencies, integration impacts, risks, and potential technical debt.
- Promote Fit-to-Standard, simplification, and clean-core principles, challenging unnecessary customization and complexity.
- Provide independent solution governance and oversight alongside the IBM team, ensuring designs remain consistent with the agreed roadmap and business outcomes.
- Participate in Design Authority and Architecture Review forums and provide recommendations on key design decisions and exceptions.
- Act as the bridge between business, functional, and technical teams, translating business requirements into scalable, integrated, and sustainable S/4HANA solutions.
- Constructively challenge System Integrator recommendations while maintaining a collaborative, outcome-focused relationship.
Required Experience & Skills
- Extensive experience as an SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect, Logistics Architect, or senior functional architect on large transformation programs.
- Strong functional expertise across SAP Logistics, particularly MM, SD, Inventory/Warehouse, Transportation, and supply-chain processes.
- Strong understanding of SAP IS-Oil and Oil & Gas downstream/logistics business processes.
- Proven ability to architect and assess end-to-end, cross-functional S/4HANA solutions, rather than individual modules in isolation.
- Strong understanding of integration between Logistics, IS-Oil, Finance, data, and non-SAP applications.
- Experience reviewing and challenging solution designs delivered by large System Integrators.
- Experience with architecture governance, Design Authority, and complex multi-vendor SAP programs.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise senior business, IT, and program leadership.