Senior Principal IT Architect - SAP Business AI Platform, S/4 HANA, ABAP

• Lead Medtronic’s enterprise SAP architecture vision across S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, integration, APIs, events, data, and automation
• Partner with IT, business, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, Risk, and Compliance teams to define technology strategy, governance, standards, roadmaps, and investment priorities
• Define and own enterprise SAP and integration technology strategy and architecture vision
• Set guiding principles, best practices, standards, and contribute to technology and application selection
• Develop and maintain a 3–5 year technology roadmap
• Define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps for SAP and enterprise application modernization
• Lead technical remediation during ECC-to-S/4HANA upgrades, clean-core adoption, cloud strategy, integration modernization, and SAP platform rationalization
• Establish interoperability principles across SAP, non-SAP, SaaS, cloud, legacy, and emerging technology platforms
• Define SAP Business AI architecture strategy and integration patterns for AI capabilities, data, applications, and external AI services
• Establish secure and governed patterns for enterprise data and business processes exposed to AI applications and agents
• Define standards for AI-enabled APIs, events, workflows, agents, and intelligent automation
• Provide architecture leadership for SAP S/4HANA transformation and modernization initiatives
• Define principles for clean-core architecture, extensibility, custom-code remediation, APIs, integration, and upgrade-safe architectures
• Drive modernization of legacy ABAP customizations toward ABAP Cloud, released APIs, side-by-side extensions, and event-driven architectures
• Own enterprise integration architecture strategy and roadmap for SAP and non-SAP ecosystems
• Design and govern scalable real-time, near-real-time, batch, synchronous, asynchronous, API-led, event-driven, and file-based integrations
• Define strategic use of SAP Integration Suite, API Management, Cloud Integration, Event Mesh, enterprise service buses, messaging platforms, and middleware
• Establish API lifecycle, event, integration security, monitoring, observability, logging, tracing, resiliency, and disaster recovery standards
• Reduce integration complexity and technical debt through rationalization, platform consolidation, reusable services, and common integration patterns
• Serve as escalation point for complex integration decisions
• Define ABAP Cloud, RAP, APIs, extensions, Fiori, and SAP BTP application development principles
• Drive custom-code governance, remediation, rationalization, and technical-debt reduction
• Establish and lead SAP, Integration & Technology Architecture Governance
• Chair or participate in architecture review boards and technology governance forums
• Review and approve strategic SAP, integration, API, cloud, AI, and application architectures
• Govern architecture exceptions and maintain architecture decision records, technology standards, reusable patterns, and governance controls
• Provide technical oversight across major SAP transformation and integration programs
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Risk, Privacy, Internal Audit, Legal, and Compliance teams
• Establish security-by-design principles and controls for applications, APIs, integrations, events, data, SAP platforms, and AI capabilities
• Identify and mitigate architectural, cybersecurity, operational, regulatory, integration, and technology risks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience with an advanced degree
• Seasoned SAP professional with a proven track record navigating ECC and S/4 HANA landscapes
• Deep expertise in SAP architecture, enterprise integration, API management, event-driven design, cloud integration, data integration, and modern application architecture
• Strong practical and architectural knowledge of SAP Integration Suite
• Knowledge of SAP Cloud Integration / CPI
• Knowledge of SAP Joule
• Knowledge of SAP API Management
• Knowledge of SAP Event Mesh and SAP Advanced Event Mesh
• Knowledge of SAP BTP integration capabilities
• Experience with REST, OData, and SOAP APIs
• Experience with API-led architecture and event-driven architecture
• Experience with enterprise messaging and asynchronous integration
• Experience with Kafka or equivalent event-streaming platforms
• Experience with enterprise service bus / middleware architectures
• Experience with master data and data integration
• Experience with batch and file-based integration
• Experience with real-time and near-real-time integration
• Experience with EDI / B2B integration
• Experience with cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integration
• Experience with SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integration
• Experience with SaaS integration patterns
• Experience with API lifecycle management
• Experience with integration security and identity propagation
• Experience with integration monitoring, observability, logging, and tracing
• Knowledge of high availability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and integration performance
• Experience with integration rationalization and technical-debt reduction
• For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree satisfying 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required
• U.S. work authorization requirements apply; sponsorship is offered for Principal-level roles and above

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive expertise in SAP architecture, enterprise integration, and API management, with a strong focus on S/4HANA transformation and modernization. Proven ability to define and govern technology strategies, standards, and roadmaps while ensuring security and compliance across enterprise applications.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• SAP Architecture
• Enterprise Integration
• API Management
• S/4HANA Transformation
• Cloud Integration

Hard Skills

• SAP S/4HANA
• ABAP Cloud
• API-Led Architecture
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Data Integration
• Integration Security
• Integration Monitoring
• REST APIs
• OData APIs
• SOAP APIs

Soft Skills

• Leadership
• Collaboration
• Strategic Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Communication

Industry Keywords

• Cybersecurity
• Compliance
• Risk Management
• Data Governance
• Technical Debt Reduction

Tools & Technologies

• SAP Integration Suite
• SAP Cloud Integration
• SAP API Management
• SAP Event Mesh
• Kafka
• Enterprise Service Bus
• Middleware
• SaaS Integration Patterns
• Event-Driven Design
• Integration Performance