SAP Technical Architect

Company Description
Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.
Job Description
Will you support us in consolidating our SAP landscape and bringing it to S4Hana?
Vattenfall has a large SAP footprint in IS-U, CRM, HR, Treasury, ERP both on-premises and in Azure – and changing due to ongoing migrations. As our ERP landscape is holding data, critical to society it is therefor regulated under the national Protective Security Acts, requiring a keen eye on security. Furthermore, our ERP landscape plays a key role in advancing OT/IT convergence. With that, enabling Vattenfall’s maintenance jobs to be directly driven by the asset, connected through IoT technology and facilitated by predictive algorithms to pre-empt failure. As SAP Technical Architect you will be working on interesting strategic projects like:
consolidating our ERP landscape
migration to S4Hana
supporting ongoing carveouts and -ins

You will have a dynamic role where you half of your time will contribute to projects – which could range from solution selection and due diligence on vendor’s IT offerings. The other half of you time will be developing strategy, technology roadmaps, managing the application portfolio and explaining and ensuring good architectural practices within the (agile) teams.
You will join an international and highly experienced team consisting around 35 IT Architects working in the Vattenfall Group IT-architecture department.
Your key activities will be:
Understanding business needs and help them to define innovative, yet stable and secure solutions in a regulated business environment
Project & Architecture Management, providing clear and justifiable architectural decisions towards projects

Qualifications
We are looking for an Architect that has worked in Technical SAP architecture for several years and is able to quickly oversee IT landscapes and impact of decisions. You feel comfortable communicating with both IT and non-IT colleagues in English and on different levels in the organisation. You enjoy being in an ever-changing environment. Furthermore you bring:
An academic degree in a relevant field
good understanding of implementing SAP landscapes, networking, infrastructure and databases
skills to produce enterprise ready architecture documents
skills in SAP Technology Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture;
understanding of SAP Basis Administration
understanding of hosting (wintel, linux), databases (HANA, Oracle), networking, HA/DR setups, preferably also related to Azure.
a technical background in ECC, HANA, S4, SAP NetWeaver – and conversions.

Location: for this position you can choose to be based Sweden (Stockholm, Gothenburg a.o); The Netherlands (Amsterdam) or Germany (Hamburg, Berlin). Limited travelling will be part of the position.
Additional Information
Our offer
We offer a challenging and international work environment and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field.
You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues
A professional environment where your experience, knowledge and attitude will bring us one step further and the opportunity for you to grow further.
A central office location with easy access by public transport.
Furthermore, a healthy work-life balance (smart working) and time to develop your profession
At Vattenfall you get the opportunity to work for a clean energy company that aims for creating fossil free energy within one generation.
And last but not least; International and multi-cultural work environment with energetic, motivated colleagues that like to have fun as well!


More Information
We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter via our website. For information about the position, please contact recruiting manager Emile Das, +31 6 5250 4359. For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact Recruiter Folmer Koper +31 6 38710915.
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. We continue to seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of gender, age, ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation.

We look forward to receiving your application!