SAP Architect

ResponsibilitiesAs Technical Architect you will take a lead role across a range of customer with responsibility for:- Designing and Planning and delivering current and future SAP environment- Develop and maintain the Technical Architecture approach, including the development of Technical Architecture Road Maps and Standards, Sizing Standards, Change Control Standards etc.- Work with Business and Project Representatives to understand Technical Architecture performance, availability, and recovery requirements and translate those in agreed SLAs and KPIs- Work with Process and Functional leads in SAP project to understand the Solution Architecture- Derive suitable SAP and non-SAP Products, Versions and Maintenance Plans to support the Solution Architecture- Work with Hardware, Hosting & Infrastructure, as well as the Support Service Partners, to understand preferred technologies and capabilities- Establish Technical Architecture Blueprint, including Server and SAN Infrastructure- Establish Disaster Recovery Strategy based on Target SLAs and KPIs and agreed- Establish the Release Management Strategy- Develop the SAP Landscape Build and Deployment Plan including Logical System- Develop the Change and Release Management Plan- Work with the Project and Business as Usual teams, the external Technical Service Partner and the internal Infrastructure & Hosting team to define and implement the overall Technical Plan- Ensure the applicable teams deploy good SAP practice in operating the solution and advice clients accordingly**Qualifications**:A successful Technical Architect within Lemongrass must have experience across four key pillars;1. Technical Heritage: Have broad experience across all key areas of SAP Architecture with a minimum of 10 years’ experience of technical architecture design. Which should include:- Deep technical experience of SAP migrations and be able to demonstrate experience in a broad range of cutover technical approaches including Heterogeneous, homogeneous, SUM DMO, and near Zero Downtime models.- Should be able to demonstrate and show reference examples of deep technical understanding of SAP Platform technologies such as the SAP Suite, BI, reporting, and UI technologies across a variety of database types.- Should possess deep experience with SAP cross-platform sizing able to translate exiting on-premise models to x64 centric cloud workloads.- Must have demonstrable experience within SAP in Memory platform technology such as HANA2.0 and SAP S4.- Be able to demonstrate experience across a range of platforms and database types including SAP ASE, x64, AIX, HP-UX, Wintel platforms, and show experience administering and architecting into Linux (SuSE / RHEL)- Should be able to architect and describe network design including but not limited to CIDR ranges, architecting across private networks, interconnectivity across IPSEC & AWS Direct Connect circuits.- Be able to demonstrate experience and/or working knowledge of working within Amazon Web Service, the exclusive platform leveraged within Lemongrass. This should include:- Working with AWS VPC networking- Demonstrate knowledge of AWS building blocks (EC2, NLBs, S3, Glacier, EBS, AWS Disk Architectures such as Io1, GP2, etc)- Landing Zone Concepts- Cloud Transformation templating / SNS / SQS**Job Type**: ContractContract length: 12 months**Salary**: $707.00 - $1,010.00 per hourApplication Question(s):- What is your expected hourly rate in dollars?- Are you Mexician citizen?- What is your working visa status?**Experience**:- AWS: 4 years (preferred)- SAP: 10 years (preferred)- SAP Architect: 5 years (preferred)- SAP S/4 Hana: 5 years (preferred)