About the role
- Help design, build and continuously improve the clients online platform.
- Research, suggest and implement new technology solutions following best practices/standards.
- Take responsibility for the resiliency and availability of different products.
- Be a productive member of the team.
Requirements
- Define the technical requirements, standards, procedures, and architectural strategies for the future SAP S/4HANA solution, covering extensibility, monitoring, observability, DevOps, transport management, and application lifecycle management.
- Ensure the solution is scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with SAP Clean Core principles.
- Define the enterprise extensibility model using ABAP Cloud, RAP, CAP, BTP ABAP, and GKE, establishing architecture standards, design guidelines, and reusable patterns.
- Determine when to use on-stack extensibility versus SAP BTP, considering business-criticality, integration needs, user experience, security, performance, maintainability, Clean Core compliance, and project timelines.
- Establish transport and client strategies, along with requirements and procedures for DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, gCTS, and quality gates.
- Define a hybrid Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) model using classic CTS for remediated legacy code, gCTS for Clean Core developments, and cTMS with native Git for SAP BTP side-by-side extensions.
- Establish branching strategies, including develop, QA, release, and main branches, along with short-lived fix and hotfix branches.
- Define the code promotion process across Dev, QA, Pre-Production, and Production environments using merge requests and appropriate quality controls.
- Establish structured logging standards and application observability requirements, including SAP Cloud ALM health monitoring and exception monitoring.
- Participate in the Technical Design Authority (TDA) to validate technical designs and ensure compliance with Clean Core principles.
- Maintain the Architecture Decision Records (ADR) repository, technical documentation, architectural standards, and templates across all project workstreams.
- Define the process for requesting, evaluating, and approving technical exceptions.
- Provide technical guidance to the Lot 1 development team and support the remaining project workstreams in implementing the defined architectural standards.
- Focuses on technical architecture, governance, standards, and guidelines rather than defining functional requirements or business processes.
- Does not involve direct component development, but provides architectural guidance and support to development teams across all workstreams.
- Google platform administration and operational activities are handled separately.
Benefits
- A challenging, innovating environment.
- Opportunities for learning where needed.