Principal, ERP Architect

Role Overview

Schneider Electric is seeking an experienced Principal ERP Architect to provide technical architecture leadership across our SAP S/4HANA landscape and transformation initiatives.

This role serves as a key technical authority within our ERP organization, guiding architecture decisions, governing development standards, and helping ensure SAP solutions remain scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with long-term business objectives.

The successful candidate will bring deep SAP technical expertise and a strong background in SAP development and architecture.

Working closely with ERP leaders, solution architects, developers, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity partners, and SAP subject matter experts, this individual will help shape technical direction while supporting major upgrades, deployments, and modernization initiatives.

This is an ideal opportunity for a senior SAP technical professional who enjoys influencing architecture decisions, mentoring development teams, and driving adoption of modern SAP development and Clean Core practices.

Key Responsibilities

SAP Technical Architecture Leadership


* Lead technical architecture activities for SAP S/4HANA implementation, upgrade, deployment, rollout, and transformation initiatives.


* Define and govern SAP technical architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.


* Review and approve technical solution designs, extensions, interfaces, and custom development approaches.


* Ensure architecture decisions align with Clean Core principles and long-term SAP strategy.


* Evaluate business and technical requirements to determine the appropriate use of standard SAP capabilities, extensions, integrations, and custom developments.


* Support architecture reviews, design workshops, fit-gap discussions, and implementation activities.

Development Governance & Technical Oversight


* Provide technical leadership and guidance to SAP development teams.


* Review technical approaches and ensure alignment with established architecture standards.


* Promote effective use of modern SAP development approaches, including RAP, CAP, and SAP extensibility frameworks.


* Guide teams on performance, scalability, maintainability, and supportability considerations.


* Support code quality, development governance, and technical decision-making processes.

SAP Platform & Technical Architecture


* Define and maintain SAP landscape architecture across development, quality, pre-production, and production environments.


* Guide decisions related to SAP Basis, HANA database architecture, integrations, middleware, connectivity, and infrastructure services.


* Partner with infrastructure and platform teams to support:



* High availability


* Security and compliance


* Performance optimization


* Capacity planning


* Backup and recovery


* Transport and release management

Help ensure SAP environments remain reliable, scalabl...