McLaren

Purpose of the Role

The SAP Solution Architect is responsible for designing and governing SAP solutions that enable McLaren’s business processes across Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Manufacturing, and other corporate functions. This role acts as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, ensuring that SAP solutions are aligned with business objectives, scalable, and compliant with enterprise standards.

The role requires deep technical expertise in SAP ECC6 and a strong understanding of S/4HANA and subsequent migration strategies. The SAP Solution Architect will work closely with business stakeholders defining solutions that meet business needs and requirements, leading the delivery of the solutions in collaboration with internal and external teams.         

Scope of the Role

• Core Platforms: SAP ECC6 (current), SAP S/4HANA (future migration), SAP Fiori, SAP BTP
• Domains: Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement
• Collaboration: Business stakeholders, Enterprise Architects, Project Managers, and internal/external functional and technical teams.

Principal Accountabilities

1) Solution Design & Architecture

• Engage with business leaders to understand strategic objectives and process requirements.
• Design end-to-end SAP solutions that optimise business processes and align with enterprise architecture standards.
• Promote an “out-of-the-box” standard approach and methodology, minimising customisation and leveraging SAP best practices to reduce complexity and cost.
• Develop solution blueprints, integration patterns, and configuration guidelines for SAP modules and extensions.

2) Migration & Modernisation

• Assess current ECC6 landscape and define migration approach to S/4HANA, including readiness checks, simplification items, and data migration strategy.
• Provide guidance on leveraging S/4HANA capabilities to improve business outcomes.

3) Governance & Standards

• Ensure SAP solutions adhere to security, compliance, and performance standards.
• Participate in architecture review boards, design authorities and contribute to SAP governance frameworks.

4) Delivery & Quality Assurance

• Translate functional requirements into technical specifications for offshore development teams.
• Review and validate technical deliverables, ensuring alignment with design principles and business needs.
• Support testing phases (unit, integration, UAT) and manage defect resolution.

5) Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders on SAP capabilities and best practices.
• Provide thought leadership on SAP roadmap, emerging technologies, and process optimisation opportunities.

Essential

• Extensive experience as an SAP Solution Architect or Lead SAP Consultant, in large-scale enterprise environments, and within the scoped domains.
• Strong functional knowledge of the scoped domains, cross-functional dependencies and integrations, and integration technologies.
• Proven ability to design and configure complex SAP solutions and produce detailed functional and technical documentation.
• Experience working with AMS providers, managing delivery and guiding both onshore and offshore teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Desirable

• SAP S/4HANA certification, and hands-on experience with SAP S/4HANA migration projects (greenfield or brownfield).
• Understanding of, and experience using SAP Activate methodology for implementing SAP S/4HANA projects.
• Familiarity with SAP Fiori, SAP BTP, and cloud integration patterns.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices for SAP (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, automated testing).

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