Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Rizing, a Wipro Company, is a global system integrator that uses SAP solutions to help customers assess physical equipment, prevent unexpected downtime, improve asset lifespan, and get high-quality cost insights. Rizing services customers in many asset-intensive industries, including Utilities, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Transportation, Mining, Government, Manufacturing, and Construction. Description Utilizes advanced solution architectural expertise to support software implementation projects. Supports overall project planning by providing functional strategic guidance. Contributes to business development through leading complex discussions with clients and potential clients to promote Rizing's latest offerings. Solution Architect works with clients and plays a lead role in the support and delivery of SAP services that are designed to manage the entire asset lifecycle, maximise its use and productivity, and ensure adherence to enterprise and regulatory procedures. This includes, but is not limited to, expertise across best practices and use of the SAP solution suite for the asset life cycle. The SAP solution suite will evolve over time and is currently comprised of Project & Portfolio Management (PPM), Plant Maintenance (PM), Materials Management (MM), Project Systems (PS), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Finance (FI) and Real Estate (RE), along with related areas within the Organizational Risk Management (ORM) modules (e.g., Management of Change, Work Clearance Management, Incident Management, Risk Management and Worker Safety), as well as niche areas such as Mobility, Analytics, Scheduling, Linear Asset Management (LAM) Compatible Units (CU), GIS integration. All solution architecture should be undertaken within the IS55000 framework. Essential Functions Develop and enforce architectural guidelines to align with client's architectural principles and project objectives, ensuring cohesive direction.Ensure solution designs not only meet business objectives but also deliver tangible value to client while maintaining high-quality standards.Provide strategic guidance on clean core principles, advising against overly complex designs to uphold architectural integrity and long-term sustainability.Ensure the architecture team validates draft designs against new S/4HANA capabilities and technology advancements for future-proof solutions.Take direct ownership of key strategic design decisions that span multiple work streams, ensuring design is consistently understood and that the overall solution will integrate successfully.Ensure minimum disruption to existing platforms and processes by overseeing seamless functional and technical integration efforts.Foster effective communication and collaboration with Rizing and client's solution and enterprise architects, ensuring alignment and coordinated efforts.Lead architecture forums to facilitate discussions on updates, challenges, progress, and risks, fostering collaboration and informed decision-making among project architects and leads.Conduct QA reviews and change request evaluations to uphold design quality and ensure compliance with established guidelines, maintaining a focus on excellence.Promptly communicate risks and issues, providing clear direction for resolution to maintain project alignment and success, ensuring proactive management of potential obstacles Key Responsibilities Client Delivery - GeneralManage your own consulting workload.Ensure meaningful and relevant lines of communication are open with the client at all levels.Assist in embedding and making sustainable the newly implemented System Integration Processes and associated Business Systems.Work to ensure that customer's needs and concerns are understood, met, and are dealt with appropriately.Work to ensure considerable focus is given to the people and change aspects of Process and Systems improvement.Work as directed to ensure consistency of approach, process, and performance across all clients.Assist in identifying, qualifying, and delivering business process and systems improvements.Support the implementation of Business Process Improvement to our clients.Focus on ensuring quality results are achieved for our clients. Client ManagementIdentify and develop relationships with key client personnel.Assist to identify and deliver possibilities for new consulting projects within the client.Assist in identifying opportunities to increase consultant numbers within existing projects.Assist to identify opportunities to increase contract duration within existing projects. Key Responsibilities (Cont) Quality ManagementActively participate in and implement systems and processes to achieve excellence in service delivery and development.Refine systems and processes to identify and realise continuous improvement.Develop a 'customer focused' approach to service delivery and development. Working with Client and ColleaguesAsk questions to understand:the clients' business objectives and key measures.what the client needs and wants to meet their business objectives, it may not be what they are asking for.Build rapport based on honesty and integrity with the client.Provide information and educate the client so they know what to expect.Work with the client and focus on finding ways to add value to their business by helping them to increase their capability or operational effectiveness.Follow-up on requests in a timely manner.Ask for feedback early and often.Deal with team issues in private as soon as possible with support.Network across and outside your area of expertise. Key Responsibilities (Cont) Provide on-site subject-matter expertise and team leadership to Rizing clients and consultants for overall SAP functional system and business process design for SAP implementations.Responsible for successful design and implementation of SAP Solutions at a client's site.Provide functional knowledge, guidance, presentations, and instruction on SAP products to clients and consultants.Lead clients in project scoping along with detailed business process requirements definition and project blueprint activities.Take direct ownership of key strategic design decisions that span multiple work streams, ensuring design is consistently understood and that the overall solution will integrate successfullyWork with clients and consultants to assess current business and systems processes and define plans for improvement.Lead functional project team during blueprint phase, helping client evaluate different process and standard SAP system configuration options, to select the best choice for their enterprise.Lead the functional team in developing and documenting design including process flows/narratives and functional specifications for technical objects.Understand and communicate standard SAP solutions to clients, when necessary identify where they can extend standard solutions to meet specific client requirements.Partner with the Technical Team in the overall application design and architecture.Understand Rizing Product capability and where these tools can be used as accelerators and when they should be sold as products / services.Adhere to SAP standards/best practices and Rizing project methodology within the context of the client's preferred methodology. Key Responsibilities (Cont) Provide leadership and guidance to functional teams during Realisation and through Go-live, ensuring overall solution remains intact as issues are resolved during testing and configuration.Work with the Rizing leadership team to support sales and business development activities as required.Serve as a subject matter expert for SAP best practices and advise clients on industry best practices.Support pre-sales activity by developing proposals, statements of work, client solution demonstrations and conducting service/improvement and value realisation reviews.Up to date with the view on current and future trends.Identifies trendsetter ideas by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements, tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments.Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organisations.Attends and contributes at key industry / technology events to further develop industry networks and communicate Rizing's value proposition. Overall Design and Program ContentExpert in system design and architecture relating to SAP, with reference to service delivery within asset-intensive industries.Enhances Rizing's reputation by defining cost-effective client solutions, ensuring that the SAP system can be implemented to meet complex and specialised business requirements.Assist in developing services and products through best practice technology approaches.Able to make recommendations and suggestions based on market knowledge and in-depth understanding of industry and technology trends.Liaise closely with key business stakeholders to ensure that all aspects of design are understood, and that stakeholders' expectations are met and exceeded.. click apply for full job details