SAP Technical Architect, Chesterfield, MO

Kforce has a client in Chesterfield, MO that is seeking a SAP Technical Architect. Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and manage SAP landscapes (n+1, n+2 environments) to support global rollouts and parallel project execution
• Lead end-to-end technical architecture across SAP RISE Private Cloud, ensuring scalability, resilience, and performance
• Drive integration architecture strategy across SAP and non-SAP platforms, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure data flows
• Document architecture, design decisions, and standards, ensuring traceability and alignment across technical and business stakeholders
• Develop and execute a comprehensive landscape maintenance and preventative maintenance strategy, including system health checks, monitoring, restarts, patching, and SAP upgrade

• Define and govern release, transport, and environment management strategy, ensuring consistency across landscapes and minimizing deployment risk
• Establish and drive structured communication strategies for releases, incidents, and changes across technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership
• Own performance, capacity planning, and system optimization, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks across applications and integrations
• Define and implement monitoring and observability frameworks to enable proactive issue detection and system reliability
• Design and enforce security, compliance, and access governance architecture, including identity integrations and regulatory adherence (e.g., SOX, GDPR)
• Own disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, including RTO/RPO alignment, failover testing, and resilience planning
• Act as the primary technical liaison with SAP (RISE), managing SLAs, escalations, and service performance in collaboration with SAP and hyperscaler partners
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners across geographies to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions
• 10+ years of experience in SAP technical architecture, with deep specialization in SAP Basis
• Strong expertise in SAP CALM or non-SAP Change and Release Management and DevOps orchestration platforms
• Strong expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI) and integration architecture patterns
• Working knowledge of ABAP (debugging, enhancements, performance optimization)
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-country SAP implementations and global rollouts
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing n+1 / n+2 SAP landscapes
• Hands-on experience with SAP RISE Private Cloud (mandatory)

• SAP BTP (Business Technology Platform)
• SAP Multibank Connectivity (MBC)
• Vertex Cloud integration via SIC server
• OpenText integration with SAP
• SAP Commerce (Cloud Commerce) integration
• Non-SAP integrations (e.g., Salesforce and other enterprise platforms) leveraging APIs, SFTP, OData, ODBC, and modern integration patterns

• Experience with SAP Business Data Cloud and/or SAP Analytics Cloud
• Exposure to modern data architecture and event-driven integration patterns
• Familiarity with integration governance frameworks and API management

• Self-starter with strong ownership and accountability
• Proven ability to lead change and drive transformation initiatives
• Strong collaboration skills across cross-cultural, global teams
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and executive stakeholders
• Ability to operate effectively in high-complexity, fast-paced environments