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Advisory Architect SAP S/4 HANA (Basis)

IBM

IT

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jan 28, 2026

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect specializing in SAP HANA Basis, you will design, implement, and maintain the SAP HANA infrastructure and basis components, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and secure solutions that meet business requirements and exceed customer expectations. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Design SAP HANA Infrastructure: Design and implement SAP HANA infrastructure and basis components, considering performance, availability, and scalability requirements. This includes ensuring the functional interface to the application infrastructure is maintained.
Develop Scalable Solutions: Design applications that can run on multiple platforms, composed of multiple software packages, and ensure they meet business requirements and customer expectations.
Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with various teams to deliver high-quality SAP HANA solutions, providing expertise in SAP HANA, basis administration, and system architecture.
Ensure Performance and Availability: Oversee the performance, availability, and scalability of applications, utilizing knowledge of SAP HANA, S/4 HANA, Cloud migration, and other relevant technologies.
Architect Cloud Solutions: Design architecture for Cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure, and leverage experience with SAP BTP, SLT, SAP ASE, and other relevant technologies.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

SAP HANA Infrastructure Design: Experience with designing and implementing SAP HANA infrastructure and basis components, considering performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
Multi-Platform Application Design: Experience in designing applications that can run on multiple platforms, composed of multiple software packages, meeting business requirements and customer expectations.
SAP HANA Solution Development: Experience with developing high-quality, scalable, and secure SAP HANA solutions, utilizing knowledge of SAP HANA, basis administration, and system architecture.
Cloud Architecture Design: Experience in designing architecture for Cloud environments, such as AWS or Azure, leveraging technologies like SAP BTP, SLT, SAP ASE, and other relevant technologies.
SAP Technology Expertise: Experience with SAP technologies including S/4 HANA, Cloud migration, ECC, BW, SCM, CRM, SRM, HCM, SQL, and other relevant skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience

SAP BTP Design Experience: Experience with designing and implementing SAP BTP, including leveraging its capabilities for Cloud-based solutions. Knowledge of integrating SAP BTP with SAP HANA and other SAP technologies is beneficial.
SAP LeanIX Design Skills: Experience in designing and implementing SAP LeanIX, including utilizing its features for Enterprise Architecture management and IT landscape planning.
Hyperscaler Architecture Knowledge: Familiarity with designing architecture for hyperscalers, such as AWS or Azure, including understanding their scalability, security, and performance capabilities.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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