Jobs in Northampton, United Kingdom

Senior SAP Order-To-Cash Solutions Architect
Location: Remote (UK)
Permanent

RS Group is seeking a Senior SAP Order-To-Cash Solutions Architect to join our global technology team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with other IS&T Functions and business partners to deliver solutions on our core SAP platform and its broader technology landscape. You will act as the domain expert for your Line of Business, ensuring architecture, design, development, and implementation meet the highest standards and align with SAP best practices. You will support the full project lifecycle—from ideation and project initiation through development and production delivery. The scope of work varies from large, multi-year projects to smaller changes deployed within days.

• Provide high-level estimations during early project phases to help business and technical teams scope and shape initiatives.
• Produce artefacts such as SAP Blueprints, Functional Specifications, and Business Process documents tailored to the scope of change. Communicate effectively to stakeholders inside and outside the SAP Delivery Team.
• Offer guidance to project teams and Solution Architects on solution options and best practices, promoting SAP standard practices and capabilities.
• Create detailed specifications for SAP developers, supporting on-site, nearshore, and offshore teams.
• Produce high-quality documentation appropriate for each change and ensure clear communication with all stakeholders.
• Participate in peer reviews within the Middle and Backoffice function to share knowledge and ensure alignment with SAP standards.
• Provide technical leadership for critical issues arising during the project lifecycle, enabling informed decision-making by stakeholders.
• Contribute to testing strategies to ensure key scenarios are covered and risk mitigation measures are in place.
• Design, develop, and execute implementation, cutover, and migration activities, ensuring business continuity and data integrity.
• Support end-users impacted by new or changed processes.
• Contribute to SAP best practices, principles, and standards aligned with enterprise architecture and strategic roadmaps.
• Participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives and Design Working Groups as the SME for your SAP Line of Business.
• Engage in governance groups such as the Technical Design Authority (TDA) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) to ensure compliance with policies, share knowledge, and enhance delivery capability.
• Review and approve functional specifications and SAP transports from third-party architects and developers, ensuring standards and business model alignment.
• Operate in an agile, iterative environment, continuously assessing priorities and seizing new opportunities.
• Challenge stakeholders where necessary to ensure the best outcomes for the organization and technology function.

You are an experienced SAP professional with deep expertise in Order-to-Cash processes, who thrives in a complex, fast-paced global environment. You bring strong problem-solving skills, technical leadership, and the ability to influence stakeholders across multiple teams and geographies. You are proactive in sharing knowledge, advocating for SAP best practices, and continuously developing your expertise to stay ahead in an evolving technology landscape.

Problem Solving & Technical Expertise

• Ability to identify, clarify, and assess complex challenges, leading the definition and delivery of solutions.
• Provide technical leadership on highly complex SAP functional and non-functional issues through resolution.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical or business process issues in collaboration with global teams.
• Escalate critical technical problems promptly and manage expectations on next steps.

Personal Development & Domain Knowledge

• Proactively seek personal and professional development opportunities.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, vendor technologies, and SAP innovations impacting strategy and roadmap.
• Act as a leading advocate for SAP best practices within your Line of Business.

• Make informed architectural decisions, presenting alternatives, chosen approaches, and rationale.
• Assess new business change requests and prioritize based on impact and value.
• Serve as a single point of contact for SAP-related design discussions, resolving conflicts with peers and stakeholders.
• Provide estimates and highlight dependencies for SAP deliverables.
• Support projects across methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) and teams (Digital, enterprise systems, data ecosystems).
• Maintain processes and standards to ensure high-quality outcomes, consistency, and simplicity.
• Identify and mitigate risks early in the design lifecycle.
• Support medium to large-scale initiatives, including planning, resource management, and cost estimation.
• Provide timely updates on progress, risks, and issues impacting delivery timelines or budgets.
• Take technical ownership for SAP deliverables, providing leadership to resolve issues as required.

• Work with business partners and technical teams to ensure solutions align with IS&T strategy and business goals.
• Influence stakeholders to reach consensus on technical designs and project builds.
• Advise on workload scheduling and potential risks, proactively addressing issues.
• Lead challenging discussions or workshops and manage expectations with clear, actionable next steps.

• Clearly communicate SAP architecture standards, processes, and procedures to relevant stakeholders.
• Produce well-written technical documentation accessible to development teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure all critical design decisions, risks, assumptions, and omitted scope items are documented and communicated.
• Provide formal handovers to SAP support and Technology Operations teams, particularly for new projects or capabilities.
• Take ownership of complex operational issues affecting customers, providing updates, root cause analysis, and future recommendations.

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.