Lead SAP Solution Architect (PTP)

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Overview

As a leading global aerospace company Boeing develops manufactures and services commercial airplanes defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity sustainability and community impact. Boeings team is committed to innovating for the future leading with sustainability and cultivating a culture based on the companys core values of safety quality and integrity.

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The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500 engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D innovation and high-quality engineering work in global markets and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML IIoT Cloud Model-Based Engineering and Additive Manufacturing shaping the future of aerospace.

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At Boeing we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted empowered and has the flexibility to choose grow learn and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration frequent team engagements and face-to-face meetings bring together different perspectives and thoughts enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected. No matter where or how our teammates work we are committed to positively shaping peoples careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career community country and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

At Boeing we are all innovators on a mission to connect protect explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space youll learn and grow contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us.

Boeing SAP CoE (Center of Excellence) is currently looking for Lead SAP Solution Architect (PTP) to join their Core Functional team in Bangalore India. This position will focus on implementation of large-scale SAP programs and support of already implemented SAP programs based on S4 HANA.

A successful candidate will understand the importance of collaboration as this position will focus on working directly with multiple stakeholders including business solution architects and developers to implement SAP projects.

Position Responsibilities

• Define the target PTP architecture and roadmap (S/4HANA Ariba payment hubs third party services) ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business objectives.
• Collaborate with IT and business stakeholders across Procurement Finance Treasury Tax Legal and other functions to understand business objectives validate priorities and translate needs into solution deliverables.
• Own the end to end PTP solution design and target operating model: sourcing requisitioning purchase order goods/services receipt invoice processing payment supplier master data & onboarding.
• Capture refine and validate functional and non functional requirements; produce conceptual and detailed solution designs and verify that designs meet data information management and integration requirements across SAP and non SAP systems.
• Lead integration architecture and interface design between SAP and external systems (Ariba payment providers banks/EBS tax engines EDI partners supplier portals) including message mapping reconciliation flows exception handling and SLAs.
• Design and govern the PTP data model and master data processes (supplier onboarding tax IDs bank account validation KYC/KYB) including master data governance standards and reconciliation controls.
• Define configuration strategy and solution patterns for PTP in S/4HANA and Ariba to ensure reuse scalability and maintainability of configurations and extensions.
• Drive process standardization and control frameworks: GR/IR management invoice matching/tolerances (VIM/MIRO/ERS) dispute resolution segregation of duties tax/WHT compliance and auditability.
• Assess feasibility of architecture options and perform trade off analyses against SAP and industry best practices; evaluate new SAP releases and alternate software and act as a recognized subject matter expert in the domain.
• Identify and recommend automation and digitization opportunities (OCR/VIM RPA straight through processing Fiori UX improvements workflow optimizations) to reduce manual effort improve accuracy and accelerate time to pay.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts functional and application design documents interface specifications test strategies and test cases (SIT/UAT/Performance) runbooks and operational playbooks.
• Lead delivery activities related to PTP implementations and enhancements: solution design configuration development coordination testing cutover planning deployment and post go live stabilization.
• Provide technical leadership during testing and rollout: facilitate issue triage lead root cause analysis and coordinate remediation between development integration and business teams.
• Ensure all PTP solutions comply with security regulatory and corporate IT standards; embed controls required by Finance Tax Audit and Legal throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Work with ERP Architect colleagues to manage the end to end product lifecycle of SAP PTP capabilities within the broader ERP ecosystem including lifecycle governance and versioning of architecture views and models.
• Produce and govern standardized documentation templates architecture views and model artifacts using established techniques and tools; support configuration management of these artifacts.
• Mentor and enable functional teams junior architects and third party integrators; drive knowledge transfer training and run team readiness for sustained operations.
• Evaluate third party tools and emerging SAP/market capabilities develop business case driven adoption roadmaps and recommend pragmatic solutions that deliver measurable business value.

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience)

• A Bachelors degree or higher is required as a BASIC QUALIFICATION
• 14 years of total IT experience.
• 12 years configuring implementing and supporting SAP Procure-to-Pay (PTP) solutions.
• 4 full lifecycle SAP implementations covering scoping & planning process design configuration testing deployment cutover and post-go-live support.
• At least 1 end-to-end implementation experience in SAP S/4HANA covering the Procure-to-Pay cycle.
• Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into conceptual and detailed solution designs writing functional specifications coordinating development (ABAP/API) managing transports and executing test strategies (SIT/UAT/performance).
• Strong experience in SAP MM and its integrations with SD TM PP WM/EWM and FI/CO.
• Hands-on experience with Ariba modules: Sourcing Contract Management Supplier Management and Ariba Invoicing (including punch-out/catalog integration).
• Proven expertise in SAP interfaces: EDI RFC IDoc APIs and middleware integrations between SAP and non-SAP systems (bank/payment hubs tax engines supplier portals e invoicing platforms).
• Experience in business process modeling and design for global multi business environments.
• Exposure to SAP Solution Manager and SAP testing tools.
• Demonstrated experience with SAP Activate methodology and Agile/SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across business and IT including engagement with senior leadership.
• Excellent communication documentation and collaboration skills; experience working with international cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of aerospace & defense business processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance and Invoice-to-Pay configuration supplier payments and bank/EBS integrations is highly desirable.
• TOGAF or other enterprise architecture certification preferred.
• SAP S/4HANA SAP FI/CO SAP MM and Ariba certifications are a plus.
• Prior experience implementing payment technologies (virtual cards host to host payment hubs) and e invoicing mandates across geographies.
• Experience with cloud/on prem hybrid architectures and API led integrations.
• Familiarity with Fiori/UI security/role design for PTP and performance optimization techniques.

Typical Education & Experience

• Bachelors Degree and typically 12-16 years related work experience or a Masters Degree with typically 11- 15 years.

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This position offers relocation within India

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