Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. . 

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups.  We are a leader in supermarkets and e-commerce, and a company at the forefront of sustainable retailing.  We are a family of great local brands that share a passion for delivering great food, value, and innovations, and for creating inclusive workplaces that providing rewarding professional opportunities.  Ahold Delhaize brands in US include, Food Lion, Hannaford, The Giant Company, Giant Food, and Stop and Shop. 

If the above interests you, keep reading as we are interested in onboarding excited individuals like you as our associates in continuing our IT innovations journey.  We are looking for an SAP Solution Architect who can drive Finance innovations in SAP S/4HANA and BPC applications.  In addition to these applications, the role will partner with analytics, strategy, operations, and other application domains in standardizing enterprise design and solution delivery. 

Position Title: SAP Solution Architect

Principle Responsibilities and Duties:

Continue innovations in SAP S/4HANA Financial Implementation

• Participates in the process of gathering business requirements and leads in design, validation and implementation of SAP S/4HANA Financial Implementation.
• Produces list of deliverables, cost estimates and time estimates related to the assigned project(s) to assist with effective project/initiative management.
• Participates with key stakeholders (business and IT) to document business requirements for the projects and translate those requirements into detailed design documentation.
• Interface with IT, PMO, Finance Business, SAP and System Integrator for Ahold Delhaize efforts to maximize returns from SAP System in support of delivering timely, qualitative, robust and scalable solutions.
• Helps determine integration needs and design/development/solution patterns that can be reused optimally.
• Interfaces with and guides software engineers and/or vendor partners in providing clarifications on design patterns, as needed.
• Performs solution verification to ensure the solution is built in accordance with the specifications meeting business and technical requirements.
• Involved in the effort to build out legacy integrations with new S/4HANA Finance
• Partners with Quality Assurance to make sure appropriate System Integration and User Acceptance Testing is performed

Design, Development & Transition

• Supports the Business by designing, developing and transitioning the S/4HANA Finance solution aligned with strategic Finance Transformation roadmap.
• Provide S/4HANA Finance solution expertise in the analysis, design, and preparation of technology solutions to meet business needs
• Recommends components for S/4HANA Finance solution that will work well together across business domains, partner with domain architect to ensure adherence to the architectural roadmap
• Ensures project and operational artifacts are developed as required, this includes working with support organizations and suppliers to ensure proper documentation is created and stored in the procedures manual or document repository.
• Acts as the primary communication point keeping IT and business partners informed of infrastructure changes, application changes, data changes or upcoming implementations and ensures business specific impacts are addressed.
• Ensures all deliverables are met related to the change management process.
• Ensures integration and consideration of assigned business areas against critical business processing, freeze periods, schedule changes, weather events and significant refresh activities.
• As required, responsible for delivery of project management role for smaller projects from inception to completion including all project artifacts, executive status reports, etc.
• Adheres to published design and development standards
• Maintain the integrated portfolio FIT roadmap based on latest program and project changes

Business Relationship Management

• Supports the Business Consultant in the process of leading the relationship with business leads to define the Finance Transformation roadmap.
• Work collaboratively with Global Finance and IT peers to maintain the strategic IT objectives
• Participate in workshops to build out a Global Template that will be used in other Ahold Delhaize implementations
• Continuously evaluate, prioritize and optimize IT investment based on strategic value, business needs, cost/benefits and critical risk.
• Provides consulting / direction to solve business problems or needs arising from everyday events or unexpected / catastrophic events.  This includes recognizing the problem, resources needed to resolve as well as managing to process needed for proper completion, including executive management updates as required.
• Thorough understanding of the business strategy, operations, markets and key stakeholders.
• Reviews business processes to understand the capability gaps and opportunities. Recommends Innovations and business processes /systems simplifications.
• Prioritizes and plan delivery in each function with the key stakeholders, manage conflicts between functional priorities as required.
• Ensures integration and consideration of assigned business areas against critical business processing, freeze periods, holiday schedule changes, weather events and significant refresh activities.
• Acts as third level of support.

Financial & Risk

• Forecast and plan for approved demand, supporting the Solution Development leadership in ensuring the group has the available resources to support on-time and on-budget project delivery. Establish strong habitual risk management practices in the organization.
• Participates in the scheduling of IT projects based on financial and strategic justifications in close cooperation with business and IT stakeholders
• Participates in the overall scheduling of programs and projects that best support the strategic intent of Ahold Delhaize IT in the areas of Solution Development Finance & Accounting
• Assists Portfolio Manager in managing resources to support demand for the strategic projects.
• Partners with Solutions Senior Directors to ensure the Solution Development group has the internal and external resources required to address demand that has been committed to, and optimize allocation of resources across projects in an efficient manner
• Liaise with Business Support, Architecture and Solutions Senior Directors to understand the types of technology that may be implemented in the near term and the capabilities that are needed to implement these technologies

Leadership

• Partners with IT Solutions Development management team to establish and support a high performance, service oriented culture that enables the operating unit Ahold Delhaize to drive sales growth and productivity performance across the organization.
• Seeks opportunities to drive efficiency to release resource to deliver more and support the business better
• Proactively continuously improving their system portfolio
• Maintains a high level of individual contribution, professional growth, and ability to function effectively and independently, challenges others to do the same.

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA Finance and BPC
• Successfully implemented SAP S/4HANA and maintained it for multibillion dollar organization
• 10+ years’ experience
• Retail or manufacturing experience is an asset
• Experience working with cloud or hosted solutions
• Experience with full life cycle of complex program (from estimation - business requirements - testing - deployment)
• Experience documenting business requirements and translating those into design
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Develops and maintain high quality software products supporting the organizations standards
• Ability to manage own work time and priorities in accordance with aggressive timelines and budgets

The GSO sets global strategies frameworks, facilitates the sharing of best practice and encourages economies of scale. Great examples include sharing technology and digital know-how, so we can continue to lead in online and in-store retailing, setting global targets for healthy and sustainable products-including reducing food waste, use of plastics and making our products healthier to use and eat, and championing development for our future leaders-from learning about the digital mindset to leading our stores of the future.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.