**Introduction**
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation.
SAP solution architects serve as the conduit between businesses and technology. You will use your analytical and problem-solving skills, to craft adaptable, comprehensive suites appropriate for each client.
Your primary responsibilities include:
- ** Strategic Technical Solutions for Business Transformation**: Working with a multi-disciplinary team to design technical solutions required to support business transformations and articulating proposed solutions in business terms demonstrating technical effectiveness.
- ** Project Management and Delivery Excellence**: Managing or executing specific project deliverables and scope to ensure project schedules & timelines are respected.
- ** Architectural Guidance and Functional Specifications**: Have architectural oversight to provide solutions, technical guidance and functional specifications based on business requirements.
- ** Continuous SAP Knowledge Expansion**: You'll be able to expand your SAP knowledge base (in cooperation with SAP trainings).
Required Experience:
- Experience in a client facing role to be able to present, prepare client proposal, provide/manage Proof of Concept in the SAP system for use cases, work with OO on the solution value proposition & IBM unique solution.
- Experience SAP implementation projects of at least 10 years in large scale, business transformation across several functional domains, e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Analytic and Business Planning, etc.
- Knows SAP FICO, MM, SD, PP, PM, QM, Data migration, interfaces, Quad A, IMPACT solution.
- Experience in the areas of SAP implementation as functional consultant and integration manager. Able to work with technical team to put together both functional and enterprise architecture.
- Deep knowledge of SAP platform in cross industries including function trends of latest S/4HANA version and new SAP products such as SAC, PaPM.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
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**Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise**
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**About Business Unit**
IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome foc