SAP Solutions Architect & Project Manager

The job that makes you happy:

• You will significantly support the global organization by defining commercial and technical requirements for all SAP projects, determining project scopes, budgets and schedules, and providing technical guidance to development, engineering, and functional teams
• Defining, maintaining, and documenting the SAP end-to-end architecture, including system landscape, integration points, data flows, and security requirements, as well as developing roadmaps and implementation plans for SAP projects, taking into account business priorities and technical feasibility, including SAP S/4, SAP BTP, SAP Integration Suite, SAP NFe Cloud, and other digital products
• You will develop, maintain and deploy SAP security standards in collaboration with the Cyber Security CoE, including an authentication and single sign-on strategy for SAP, Fiori and mobile applications, designing high availability, backup and recovery, monitoring and disaster recovery processes for SAP in cloud environments such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• You will also be responsible for external service provider management, you will work with vendors and external partners to evaluate and select suitable SAP products and services, and you will be constantly up-to-date on the latest SAP technologies and trends, evaluate their potential impact, and recommend innovative solutions
• You will closely supervise test phases and pilot projects, creating a trusting collaboration with cross-functional teams and interfaces, acting as a subject matter expert for SAP-related inquiries and providing training and coaching to end users, partners and customers

The profile that makes us happy:

• You will lay the foundation for successful work in this position through a degree in the field of information technology (IT) with several years of practical professional experience in SAP architecture, SAP PI/PO including HANA DB Support, SAP S/4, SAP CPI, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Fiori and the SAP Integration Suite
• Further technical expertise in SAP in cloud environments - GCP, Azure or AWS - is required, as well as experienced handling of SAP Concur, SAP SuccessFactors and Active Directory
• With your know-how and your self-image, you will be able to work successfully in the areas of system analysis, program design and specification, coding, testing, debugging and documentation with the SAP integration suite Cloud Foundry
• Our Global IT Centers of Excellence (CoE) work quickly, agilely and flexibly in the style of a start-up, in addition to the technical component, your mindset is very important to us, we need someone with the willingness to learn, a high level of commitment, an eye for work and not someone who rests, but is always hungry for the next milestone
• You speak very good English for interacting with internal and external interfaces of the Orion Engineered Carbons Group, and we are happy to welcome you from time to time

The basic data for your position:

Full-time (37.5 h) | Permanent position | Cologne or Frankfurt (mobile office) | 30 days holiday | Salary band: €88,000 - €111,000 

Reasons to join our team:

various bonus payments | 6 months sickness benefit subsidy | Company Pension Scheme | Supplementary long-term care and accident insurance | Company Medical Service | Flu Shots | Preventive medical check-ups | subsidized company restaurant | individual training | E-Learning | Company run in Cologne | €1,000 Hire-a-Friend Reward | Carnival Session | Free parking