**What you’ll do:** This position is responsible for defining, designing, and communicating a shared architectural vision for a multi-channel order backbone - blending EDI, e-commerce, and manual order entry methods. Your deep knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and ECC's QTC modules, combined with AI-forward thinking will drive a scalable, future proof, enterprise-grade solution. This position will primarily support the e-commerce channel along with a focus on self-service automation opportunities across the enterprise. You will collaborate with Agile teams to consider solutions, validate technology assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and converge on a solution. Finally, the System Architect will work closely with Enterprise and Solution Architects to deliver solutions that are aligned to the broader architecture guardrails. - Collaborate within a complex order management ecosystem using SAP S/4 and ECC QTC modules, ensuring robust coverage of order intake, validation, routing, fulfillment, and lifecycle management. - Focus on the transition of front end systems to back end order management processing and map out the integration and downstream order orchestration rules/routing. - Troubleshoot and provide guidance on the end-to-end order data flow from customers to various back end ERP solutions. - Partner with engineering teams to leverage AI capabilities - intelligent routing, predictive exception handling, and automation in order orchestration. - Assist and provide guidance for modern enterprise level integration frameworks leveraging real-time APIs, and various middleware technologies. - Oversee and provide guidance to SAP functional analysts and SAP developers for any required development work. - Enable a continuous delivery pipeline through proper design guidelines - Define and communicate system interfaces, data structures, data storage, integrations, cybersecurity considerations, test automation concepts, and deployment approaches - Provide technical oversight and encourage security, quality, and automation - Effectively negotiate with the business to ensure nonfunctional work (e.g. patching, platform upgrade etc.) is properly prioritized and worked on to reduce the accumulation of technical debt over time **Qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution + 10+ years of experience in the software industry with a proven track record of shipping high quality products **Skills:** - Extensive experience utilizing best practices in software engineering - Expert level experience working with SAP Order Management - especially S/4 HANA, ECC QTC, and SD/OTC modules. - Demonstrated ability to implement enterprise level order routing and orchestration, and architect complex data schemas. - Preferred, Salesforce experience in order submission either CPQ or Salesforce Commerce Cloud. - Preferred, experience designing or implementing AI-driven enhancements throughout the order management process. - Preferred, experience working with Kafka event streaming and leading enterprise-level integration migrations. - Extensive experience developing enterprise grade, highly scalable, highly performant applications and/or distributed systems - Expert level understanding of software design principles, design patterns, algorithms, data structures, and multithreading concepts - Expert level understanding of DevSecOps, CI, and CD principles from code check-in through to deployment - Extensive experience with modern software development principles including code management, test automation, APIs, microservices, and cloud services. - Extensive experience working with Agile, Scrum, or Kanban - Advanced verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain and present technical concepts to all levels of the organization - Comfortable working directly with both technical and non-technical audiences - Good judgment, time management, and decision-making skills - Ability to work colaboratively on a technical team - Patience and empathy when working with and coaching developers and testers - Extensive experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations and teams