SAP Principal Architect

Job Title: Principal Cloud Architect (SAP)

Duration: Contract-to-hire (6–12 month W2 contract, with conversion targeted at the 6-month mark)

Compensation Range: $90–100/hr W2Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401KMust be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Job Description: Serve as the overarching technical architect for a leading enterprise software provider's largest and most strategic federal, defense, and national security customers, guiding them through SAP cloud and AI modernization. Lead discovery and business transformation workshops to assess customers' current ( "as-is ") SAP environments, uncover business and technical challenges, and define future-state goals. Translate discovery findings into heatmaps, transition plans, target-state architecture diagrams, and modernization roadmaps aligned to the customer's mission and business strategy. Operate at two levels: connect architecture decisions to mission, business objectives, risk, cost, and long-term roadmap at the executive level — and go deep on S/4HANA deployment models, RISE, BTP, Integration Suite, APIs, PI/PO modernization, Datasphere, HANA, BW, and cloud architecture when the conversation calls for it. Advise rather than sell: help customers understand why a particular SAP capability fits their business problem, including capabilities they hadn't initially considered, and articulate the business value and long-term architectural impact. Collaborate with functional architects, enterprise architects, engagement leads, implementation teams, and SAP subject-matter experts, and stay engaged through delivery to ensure the architecture is executed as designed. Expect roughly 25% hands-on work — you'll be diagramming architecture for customers far more often than personally building components, with delivery teams supporting implementation.

Minimum Requirements: 10 years of hands-on SAP configuration and implementation experience, plus 5 years in architecture, strategy, and solution conceptualization. A career built through the SAP technical stack — ideally starting in SAP Basis, progressing through BTP, and into architecture. Hands-on technical work within the last 5 years; this is not a role for architects who have moved entirely away from the technical details. Deep experience with SAP ECC, S/4HANA (private and public cloud), SAP BTP, and RISE with SAP.Strong knowledge across integration architecture (PI/PO to Integration Suite, APIs), data architecture (Datasphere, HANA, BW/4HANA, BDC, MDG), security and compliance (GRC, IdM), ALM (Solution Manager, Cloud ALM), and cloud infrastructure (BTP, AWS, Azure).Proven experience leading customer-facing discovery/BTS workshops, building executive relationships, and translating business needs into technical roadmaps. Comfortable discussing SAP AI capabilities (Joule, SAP Business AI) and customer use cases; you don't need to be an AI specialist. Excellent executive-level facilitation, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to estimate the financial impact of architectural alternatives. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications: SAP LeanIXSAP Signavio Cloud ALM or TOGAF certification; Aerospace & Defense or Public Sector implementation experience.