About the Role
Simon-Kucher is seeking an Enterprise Integration Architect to design and integrate enterprise systems within a growing global technology landscape encompassing SaaS, PaaS, SAP S/4HANA, AI-enabled applications, and modern cloud services. The role involves translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions, defining integration patterns, and ensuring seamless interaction between various systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and document technical architecture concepts for IT systems within a complex SaaS, PaaS, and SAP S/4HANA landscape.
- Translate business requirements, BPM inputs, and operational needs into solution designs, architecture options, interface concepts, and implementation guidance.
- Define integration approaches for SAP S/4HANA, AI-enabled systems, cloud applications, APIs, workflow platforms, and other enterprise services.
- Assess data flows, automation logic, service orchestration, governance requirements, and operational monitoring.
- Collaborate with BPM specialists to ensure technical architecture supports end-to-end process requirements, workflow lifecycles, and scalable production operations.
- Align architecture concepts with performance, scalability, resilience, compliance, and operational requirements with IT infrastructure specialists, application owners, and security stakeholders.
- Support agile and hybrid project delivery by contributing to epics, solution designs, technical dependencies, decision papers, backlog refinement, and delivery planning.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, including context diagrams, integration views, interface descriptions, decision logs, requirements mappings, and implementation guardrails.
- Prepare and present presentations, recommendation papers, and decision materials for stakeholders and senior management.
- Support RFP processes and vendor selection activities by defining technical requirements, evaluation criteria, solution scope, and architecture-related questions.
- Ensure technical alignment, documentation quality, delivery transparency, and adherence to contractual responsibilities.
- Identify architecture risks, integration gaps, unclear ownership boundaries, and lifecycle weaknesses, coordinating resolutions with responsible teams and suppliers.
- Contribute to the development of scalable production lifecycles, including change readiness, testing considerations, operational handover, monitoring requirements, and the continuous improvement of architecture standards and patterns.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution architecture, integration architecture, enterprise application architecture, or a comparable technical role within an international organization.
- Experience in consulting, professional services, or similarly complex stakeholder environments is beneficial.
- Strong experience working in international SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS environments, with a holistic understanding of enterprise applications, integration architectures, APIs, workflows, events, and cloud services.
- Proven experience designing interfaces, integration patterns, data flows, and end-to-end solution architectures across complex enterprise landscapes.
- Good understanding of SAP S/4HANA integration in complex enterprise landscapes, including interaction with non-SAP systems, SaaS products, and cloud platforms.
- Experience with SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, SAP Event Mesh, SAP Clean Core principles, SAP RISE, or comparable SAP cloud and integration capabilities.
- Good understanding of the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem and product landscape.
- Solid understanding of AI-enabled enterprise services, including automation opportunities, data dependencies, model and service integration, monitoring, and governance implications.
- Experience with AI/GenAI platforms such as Azure OpenAI, OpenAI APIs, MCPs, SAP AI Core, SAP Generative AI Hub, agentic frameworks, or enterprise automation platforms is highly beneficial.
- Experience working in agile and hybrid delivery environments, supporting implementation readiness, scalable production lifecycles, and cross-functional coordination.
- Strong understanding of Business Process Management and the ability to collaborate effectively with BPM specialists, process models, and workflow concepts.
- Experience working with external vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers, including support for RFP processes, vendor evaluations, technical requirements definition, and delivery coordination against contractual agreements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with business users, technical specialists, vendors, project teams, and senior management.
- Excellent written and spoken English and the ability to communicate complex technical topics in a clear and understandable way are essential.
- German language skills or experience working in DACH business environments are beneficial.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership, able to work independently in complex project environments while collaborating effectively across teams.
- Demonstrates adaptability, a willingness to learn new technologies, and a professional, respectful, and supportive approach towards colleagues, stakeholders, and external partners.
- Relevant certifications, such as TOGAF, cloud architecture, SAP architecture, SAP BTP, ITIL, agile delivery, BPMN/BPM, or vendor-specific architecture certifications, are considered an advantage.
Skills
- SAP S/4HANA integration
- SaaS
- PaaS
- IaaS
- AI-enabled systems
- Cloud services
- APIs
- Workflow platforms
- Enterprise services
- Data flows
- Automation logic
- Service orchestration
- Governance requirements
- Operational monitoring
- SAP BTP
- SAP Integration Suite
- SAP Event Mesh
- SAP Clean Core principles
- SAP RISE
- Microsoft Cloud ecosystem
- Azure OpenAI
- OpenAI APIs
- MCPs
- SAP AI Core
- SAP Generative AI Hub
- Agentic frameworks
- Enterprise automation platforms
- Agile delivery
- Hybrid delivery
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Process models
- Workflow concepts
- Vendor management
- RFP processes
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Technical documentation
- TOGAF
- Cloud architecture
- SAP architecture
- ITIL
- BPMN/BPM
Location
- Berlin
- Bonn
- Cologne
- Frankfurt/Main
- Hamburg
- Munich
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Work from abroad (workation)
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience in IT architecture, solution architecture, integration architecture, enterprise application architecture, or a comparable technical role
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Daycare allowance
- Corporate discounts
- Wellbeing support (e.g. Headspace)
- Healthy snacks and beverages provided
About the Company
- Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,200 employees in 30+ countries.
- We are a trusted commercial advisor focused on unlocking better growth, combining deep consulting expertise, growth specialization, and technology to scale lasting impact.
- We optimize every lever of commercial strategy – product, pricing, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on what customers want and value.
- With over 40 years of monetization experience, we are recognized as the world’s leading commercial growth and pricing specialist.
Equal Opportunity
- We believe in building a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating an environment in which our people feel valued, are able to be themselves and feel their contribution matters.
- If we get that right, remarkable things will happen; people will grow faster, innovate, feel valued, and create better outcomes for everyone – our people, our clients and, of course, our business.
