SAP Finance Solution Architect
Edmonton, AB, CA, T5S 2L9 Ottawa, ON, CA Edmonton, AB, CA Vancouver, BC, CA Toronto, ON, CA Calgary, AB, CA Montréal, QC, CA
Description
Join our team and what we’ll accomplish together
The TELUS SAP & Enterprise Shared Services team is embarking on an exciting transformation journey, leveraging strategic relationships with both SAP and Google to modernize existing infrastructure, and ways of working to accelerate value, quality, and velocity for our TELUS business stakeholder teams. With a genuine cloud-first, agile, and digital mindset, the TELUS team is embarking on a journey to modernize its SAP landscape, team, and service delivery approach with migration to SAP (RISE) S/4 HANA.
In this role, you will join a dynamic and highly skilled technology team of functional analysts and developers who are committed to delivering working solutions that enable best-in-class business and systems capabilities, guided by our customers’ needs and strategic priorities.
What you’ll do
As a key member of the DevOps team, you will play a critical role in driving the team’s success by ensuring architectural quality across the full development lifecycle — from requirements and design to implementation and operations. Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the design and implementation of enterprise applications, components, interfaces, and APIs that align with business requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and best practices for performance, resiliency by design, and security by design
- Architecting systems and solutions by driving requirements elicitation, effort estimation, vendor evaluations, solution blueprinting, delivery oversight, and risk assessments
- Developing core system components and APIs, contributing hands-on to key aspects of the solution
- Defining release plans and sprint schedules in alignment with the overarching program vision, in collaboration with Program Solution Architects
- Providing strategic technology and process recommendations to support scalable, sustainable system architecture while removing technology-related barriers
- Guide business partners in evaluating competing technologies, vendors and solution options
- Collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, including business and technology teams, to shape solution blueprints and support effort assessments
- Mentoring and supporting team members, sharing your expertise to build team capability and ensure alignment with DevOps principles and architectural goals
Qualifications
What you bring
- 7+ years of experience in SAP business processes within ECC and S/4HANA Finance & Controlling and sub- modules General ledger, Accounts Receivables, Accounts Payable, Asset Accounting, Electronic bank statement, Controlling – Profitability Analysis, Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, product costing, material ledger, Integration of FI with MM & SD, and Flexible Real Estate
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in functional configuration and ABAP development / debugging across the key SAP modules
- Experience in SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA migration and upgrade projects, with involvement in end-to-end transformation initiatives
- Valued for your role as trusted advisor with the ability to provide strategic guidance, coaching, and subject matter expertise to both technical and business stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to build relationships and influence across various levels of the organization
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with a track record of effectively conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience
Great-to-haves
- SAP certifications in relevant modules such as SAP Financial Accounting, SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Experience with 3rd party integrations to solutions such as xSuite and Taulia
- Familiarity with advanced SAP platforms and tools, including SAP BTP, SAC, and DataSphere
- Experience using architecture modeling languages such as ArchiMate
- Proficiency in using Agile project and task management tools
- Ability to understand network and security architectural considerations, while effectively collaborating with respective architects to ensure end-to-end solution integrity
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace
- Familiarity with modern development tools, such as Git/GitHub and Python
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
- Understanding of API design and integration
- Knowledge of TMF standards
Advanced knowledge of English is required because you will most of the time interact in English with external parties (clients, suppliers, candidates, external partners, etc.); interact in English with internal parties (colleagues, internal partners, stakeholders, etc.); and work with IT tools whose interface is only accessible in English as part of this position's main responsibilities given its national scope.
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