SAP Enterprise Architect

Job Location: hybrid in Bucharest Recruitment process: HR discussion 2 x Technical interview Role description: As SAP Enterprise Architect, you are the authoritative architectural instance for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (SAP GROW), with a strong focus on Retail and Finance-related end-to-end processes. You define the architectural guardrails within which SAP is used, integrated, extended and AI-enabled, ensuring that the SAP core remains strictly standard-compliant while required enhancements are consistently realized side-by-side. Our client is one of the first major global retail groups implementing SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition at this scale. In this unique pioneering role, you operate at eye level with SAP product development, actively influence architectural directions and position as a strategic reference customer in an international omnichannel retail environment. You ensure that our client's SAP landscape - including embedded and side-by-side AI capabilities - is future-proof, upgrade-stable, performant and compliant within a highly complex enterprise system landscape. The role: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition follows a strict, standard-oriented, cloud-native ERP paradigm with clearly defined public-cloud constraints. Within this framework, you are responsible for designing and evolving a scalable end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Retail architecture covering procurement, logistics, sales, finance and controlling while ensuring clean-core adherence. Responsabilities: Enterprise Architecture SAP S/4HANA Cloud Landscape Define and evolve the SAP target architecture for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (SAP GROW) within a complex enterprise system landscape Establish and enforce architectural guardrails aligned with public-cloud restrictions, clean-core principles and long-term upgrade stability Evaluate SAP software releases, embedded AI capabilities and roadmap innovations and embed them into the target architecture Ensure architectural coherence between SAP core, side-by-side extensions and AI-enabled enterprise services End-to-End Retail & Finance Architecture Design and evolve end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Retail processes covering sales, procurement, logistics, finance and controlling Own the architecture of key retail domains such as merchandise management, supply chain, store operations, customer experience and master data Drive omnichannel enablement across store and digital channels Ensure architectural readiness for international retail operations and high transaction volumes AI & Intelligent ERP Enablement Architect the integration of embedded SAP AI capabilities (e.g. forecasting, automation, recommendations) into business processes Define architectural principles for AI-driven process automation within Retail and Finance Ensure clean separation between core ERP logic and AI-based decision services Collaborate closely with AI-native engineering teams to align other software…