Lead Solution Architect
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Lead SAP S/4HANA architect owning federal financial modernization architecture for C5MI Insight. Governing solution design, integrations, security, and architecture teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end target solution architecture across nine financial process areas for a large-scale SAP S/4HANA modernization program
- Lead, develop, and allocate the solution architecture team and coordinate cloud, data, platform, and security architecture communities
- Chair the architecture review board and establish design principles, standards, solution patterns, and decision-record processes
- Enforce fit-to-standard and clean-core delivery; evaluate and document custom development and extension decisions
- Direct the chart of accounts and financial data model to ensure a single, auditable document chain
- Govern integration architecture across finance, extensibility, analytics, reporting, logistics, procurement, and personnel domains
- Own non-functional requirements for performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, and resilience
- Present and defend architecture at preliminary design, critical design, and production readiness reviews
- Partner with security and risk leadership to maintain an authorizable architecture and authority to operate
- Review and approve functional and technical design documentation and ensure traceability from requirements through testing
- Establish technical debt and architectural runway strategy
- Mentor solution architects and senior functional leads
- Advise program and government leadership on technical trade-offs, sequencing, scope, and schedule
- Manage people performance, coaching, development planning, staffing, workload prioritization, compliance, and stakeholder alignment
- Adhere to quality, information security, company policies, and core values
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or 14–18 years of professional experience and 8–11 years of people leadership experience without a degree
- 10–15 years of professional experience and 5–8 years of people leadership experience with a Bachelor’s degree
- People leadership experience must include managing other people leaders
- 10+ years of SAP experience, including 5+ years as a solution architect, enterprise architect, or lead architect
- Minimum of two full lifecycle SAP implementations with direct responsibility for solution architecture or lead design authority
- Deep expertise in SAP S/4HANA Finance, including universal journal, general ledger, asset accounting, controlling, and public sector funds management
- Demonstrated experience establishing and chairing architecture governance, including architecture review boards, design standards, and formal design decision records
- Experience designing SAP and non-SAP integration architectures using APIs, middleware, services, and asynchronous messaging
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing architects or senior technical staff, including performance management and capability development
- Secret security clearance required: must hold an active Secret clearance or be able to obtain and maintain one prior to assignment; requires U.S. citizenship
- Greenfield SAP S/4HANA experience strongly preferred
- Active Secret security clearance at time of hire preferred
- Experience with federal ERP modernization, Department of War SAP environments, or defense business systems acquired under DoDI 5000.75
- Industry-recognized architecture or SAP certification, such as SAP Certified Solution Architect, SAP Enterprise Architect, or TOGAF
- Experience delivering within SAP Activate using a fit-to-standard, clean-core approach
- Experience with SAP Public Sector Management, SAP for Defense & Security, and force element data modeling
- Experience architecting solutions in accredited government cloud at Impact Level 4 or 5
- Familiarity with FIAR, DoD 7000.14-R, and FFMIA
- Ability to travel up to 50% to client sites
Benefits:
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Personal development support through a culture that invests in personal development
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