Role Summary 

We are seeking an experienced SAP BTP Architect to own the architecture, standards, and technical governance of SAP Business Technology Platform across our enterprise landscape. This role is responsible for designing and leading how BTP is structured, secured, governed, integrated, transported, and operated across environments.

This is not a general SAP architecture role and not a pure Basis or development role. It is a platform architecture position focused specifically on SAP BTP services, subaccount strategy, identity and access design, Integration Suite standards, transport and promotion governance, observability, security configuration, and platform operating model.

The ideal candidate will define the target-state BTP architecture that enables scalable, secure, and supportable use of BTP in support of SAP S/4HANA and enterprise integrations, while establishing clear boundaries between architecture, Basis administration, security provisioning, and development responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

BTP Platform Architecture

• Define the overall SAP BTP architecture and operating model across global accounts, directories, subaccounts, services, entitlements, environments, and tenant strategy.
• Establish standards for how BTP is structured across development, QA, and production.
• Create reusable platform patterns that support consistency, scalability, security, and supportability across all BTP use cases.
• Ensure BTP design decisions align with enterprise architecture and the SAP S/4HANA transformation roadmap.

Identity, Authentication, and Access Design for BTP

• Architect identity and authentication patterns for SAP BTP, including integration with enterprise identity providers such as Okta.
• Define BTP-specific standards for trust configuration, single sign-on, user provisioning, administrative access, and service-level access.
• Design role and access models for BTP, including platform admin, operator, developer, integration support, and security support roles.
• Establish clear separation between BTP role architecture and downstream application security roles.

SAP Integration Suite Architecture and Governance

• Define architecture standards for SAP Integration Suite within BTP, including iFlows, API exposure, connectivity, partner integrations, and reusable design patterns.
• Establish standards for external connectivity, including secure connections to enterprise applications such as Manhattan and other third-party platforms.
• Drive consistency in how connection parameters, retry logic, shared configuration values, and reusable artifacts are managed across integrations.
• Define architectural guardrails for maintainability, resiliency, and secure integration design.

BTP Transport, Promotion, and Change Governance

• Establish BTP-specific standards for code repository usage, version control, branching, transport, and deployment promotion.
• Define how BTP artifacts move across environments, including standards for configuration migration, transport sequencing, release controls, and production promotion.
• Partner with development teams to ensure custom BTP development and integration content follow disciplined promotion and change control practices.
• Ensure environment migration processes minimize manual rework and reduce configuration drift.

Observability, Monitoring, and Alerting within BTP

• Define the operating standards for monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility across SAP BTP services.
• Architect how BTP-native monitoring capabilities should be leveraged and where integrations to enterprise incident tools such as PagerDuty are appropriate.
• Establish standards for alert ownership, escalation paths, logging expectations, and operational support readiness.
• Ensure BTP services are designed with production support and troubleshooting in mind.

BTP Security, Certificates, and Secrets Management

• Establish standards for certificate management, key handling, secret storage, and secure credential usage within SAP BTP.
• Define best practices for securing destinations, service instances, service keys, and technical integrations.
• Partner with security and platform administration teams to ensure secure lifecycle management of credentials and certificates.
• Drive least-privilege access and auditable platform controls across BTP services.

Environment Strategy and Platform Lifecycle Management

• Define the architectural standards for building and scaling BTP environments across the program lifecycle.
• Establish patterns for onboarding new services, enabling new capabilities, and replicating foundational configuration across environments.
• Provide design leadership for environment readiness, tenant setup strategy, and long-term maintainability of the BTP landscape.
• Clarify which responsibilities belong to the BTP architect versus Basis, security administration, and development teams.

Governance and Delivery Alignment

• Serve as the architectural authority for SAP BTP in project and design governance forums.
• Interpret project scope and Statements of Work to ensure BTP responsibilities, deliverables, and ownership are clearly understood.
• Review implementation approaches proposed by internal teams and partners to ensure alignment with BTP best practices and long-term platform sustainability.
• Provide technical leadership across workstreams impacted by BTP

 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SAP or enterprise platform architecture roles.
• 3+ years of direct experience architecting solutions on SAP BTP.
• Deep experience with SAP BTP platform design, including subaccounts, environments, entitlements, security, and service enablement.
• Strong experience with SAP Integration Suite architecture and governance.
• Experience designing BTP authentication and identity integration with enterprise IAM platforms such as Okta.
• Experience defining BTP transport, promotion, and release practices across multiple environments.
• Strong understanding of BTP operational topics including monitoring, alerting, logging, certificate handling, and secrets management.
• Experience working across architecture, Basis, security, integration, and development teams in large enterprise programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA programs where SAP BTP plays a key integration or extension role.
• Experience with BTP platform governance in multi-team or multi-partner environments.
• Experience defining enterprise standards for BTP development lifecycle and release management.
• Familiarity with SAP extension patterns, APIs, event-driven integration, and hybrid SAP/non-SAP connectivity.
• Retail, supply chain, or omnichannel commerce experience is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• SAP BTP is implemented as a governed enterprise platform, not as a collection of one-off configurations.
• Identity, transport, monitoring, connectivity, and security patterns are standardized across the BTP landscape.
• Development, Basis, and security teams have clear guardrails and responsibilities.
• New BTP services and integrations can be deployed faster because foundational architecture and standards are already in place.
• The BTP landscape is secure, scalable, supportable, and aligned to the broader SAP program.