Project Architect - SAP S/4HANA for Utilities

• Hybrid: Onsite TuesdayThursday; remote other days


• Preferred locations: Minneapolis, MN or Denver, CO


• Some travel required (quarterly)


• Core hours: 9 AM 4 PM CST


• 40-hour work week

Our client is undertaking a major Customer Information System (CIS) modernization initiative, transitioning from a legacy billing environment to SAP S/4HANA for Utilities (IS-U) and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud for customer service and CRM capabilities.

This is a large-scale, multi-year transformation program. The Project Architect will design and govern end-to-end solutions across SAP, Salesforce, and other enterprise systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and SAP Clean Core principles.

The ideal candidate brings a strong architecture background and experience designing solutions across complex hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Experience with SAP S/4HANA functionality and technologies, SAP BTP, SAP data platforms, Salesforce, and AWS is highly desirable.

• Major CIS modernization and digital transformation initiative


• Transition from a legacy customer information environment to SAP S/4HANA Utilities and Salesforce Energy and Utilities Cloud


• Long-term engagement with potential for conversion


• Work as part of the client's Enterprise Architecture team


• Blueprinting, solution architecture, governance, and implementation validation

• Develop and maintain end-to-end solution architecture for key financial, payment, collections, and customer-related business processes across enterprise systems including SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce, and supporting platforms


• Minimize customizations and enforce SAP Clean Core principles


• Identify emerging technology capabilities and architectural patterns that may support business requirements


• Align solutions with enterprise architecture standards and guidelines


• Govern architectural standards and best practices


• Lead solution design and implementation activities to ensure development aligns with approved architecture


• Collaborate with functional and technical teams across the organization


• Ensure solutions provide appropriate resiliency, scalability, security, and performance


• Conduct architecture reviews and present solutions to architecture governance teams


• Validate implementations against approved architectural designs

• 10+ years of architecture experience


• 2+ years of SAP S/4HANA Utilities (IS-U) experience


• 2+ years of SAP BTP and Integration Suite experience


• 4+ years of AWS experience


• Expertise in enterprise-level solution architecture across multiple systems, including hybrid cloud environments


• Strong architectural governance and solutioning experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience


• SAP Certified Solution Architect or Technology Professional


• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, TOGAF, and LeanIX


• Utility industry experience

• Integration and data architecture, including SAP BTP, AWS, and IBM ACE


• Cloud and hybrid architecture, with AWS preferred


• End-to-end solution architecture across complex enterprise ecosystems


• Architecture option analysis, including developing alternatives and making recommendations


• Strong understanding of security, scalability, observability, resiliency, and performance design

• Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to executives, business stakeholders, and technical teams


• Strong business acumen and ability to align architectural decisions with strategic objectives


• Independent, accountable, and collaborative


• Comfortable working across organizational teams, partners, and vendors