SAP P2P Business Solution Architect

at  EPAM Systems Inc

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
We are looking for an SAP P2P Business Solution Architect to become a part of our tight-knit EPAM team and engage in technology-driven activities. As an SAP P2P Business Solution Architect, you will be granted a fascinating opportunity to work in a leading software engineering and IT consulting company. If you want to gain vast professional experience and enrich your knowledge – welcome on board.
With a relationship of close to thirty years with SAP, EPAM have been on the engineering side of SAP for many of their enterprise product releases, helping them engineer their product and helping them to go to market over the decades.
EPAM are now looking to add a consulting arm to our award-winning engineering services.

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to identify P2P-related business opportunities and solution gaps, as well as develop gap closure options
• Capability to present SAP features and innovations filtered and focused on potential customer needs related to the P2P domain
• Experience in P2P business architecture development with knowledge of related SCM business processes, SAP solutions and delivery methodology
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA (SCM) functionality
• High-level understanding of sales forecasting and demand planning, sales & operations planning, strategic sourcing and distribution strategies
• Ability to align and effectively communicate with customer IT and business organizations

• Run SAP pre-sale and implementation project governance, including business requirements adjustment and development, fit-gap analysis, process and organizational change, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Support assessment of current customer solutions and potential areas of opportunity for SAP solution implementation
• Support adjustment and development Procure-to-Pay (P2P) functional requirements and identification of related IT and business enablers from the initial point of view around customer initiatives to the final blueprint as a base for SAP implementation
• Drive architecture governance and methodologies to ensure consistency, communication and cooperation across P2P & SCM domains of architecture
• Partake in the customer engagement lifecycle, and act as an integral member of the account engagement team
• Define and integrate business, data, application and the technical P2P architecture domain
• Lead/support the target architecture & customer roadmap development and maintain alignment with SAP solutions
• Build personal customer relationships and support EPAM sales team in detailed customer (solution) discovery discussions
• Stay up to date about P2P improvement trends and the actual SAP portfolio of related solutions to formulate a customer roadmap
• Estimate work efforts relating to the P2P process and related organizational design improvement, SAP technical configuration and development