**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** As an Architect in IBM Consulting, you'll serve as a leader in defining solutions for clients. You'll be the advocate for the client while guiding the technical team to implementation. SAP solution architects serve as the conduit between businesses and technology. You will use your analytical and problem-solving skills, to craft adaptable, comprehensive suites appropriate for each client. Your primary responsibilities include: Strategic Technical Solutions for Business Transformation: Working with a multi-disciplinary team to design technical solutions required to support business transformations and articulating proposed solutions in business terms demonstrating technical effectiveness. Project Management and Delivery Excellence: Managing or executing specific project deliverables and scope to ensure project schedules & timelines are respected. Architectural Guidance and Functional Specifications: Have architectural oversight to provide solutions, technical guidance and functional specifications based on business requirements. Continuous SAP Knowledge Expansion: You'll be able to expand your SAP knowledge base (in cooperation with SAP trainings) **Required technical and professional expertise** * Designing and developing, data dictionary objects, data elements, domains, structures, views, lock objects, search helps and in formatting the output of SAP documents with multiple options. * Development experience in RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms and Reports) * Modifying standard layout sets in SAP Scripts, Smart forms & Adobe Forms * Knowledge on ABAP Object Oriented Programming * Knowledge and experience on SAP Workflow **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Minimum 12 years of Industry experience in SAP space * Proven work experience in 3-4 full cycle implementation in SAP ABAP HANA projects. * Experience in working in Implementation, Consulting, Client interaction, Upgrade, Maintenance and Post Production support projects would be an advantage * Understanding of SAP functional requirement, conversion into Technical design and development using ABAP Language for Report, Interface, Conversion, Enhancement and Forms in implementation or support projects