SAP OTC Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take responsibility for the functional and architectural strategy of the order-to-cash domain across multiple customer engagements simultaneously.

• Design optimal target-state OTC solutions and transition pathways, accommodating customer demands while considering existing systems and business value.

• Assess functional specifications and establish approaches for data conversion, reconciliation, and cutover concerning OTC data and open documents.

• Ensure architectural integrity is maintained throughout the delivery process.

• Work in collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineers, Tessera AI agents, customer architects, Technical Program Managers, and distributed delivery teams.

• Manage OTC integration points, including EDI and IDoc flows, tax engines, payment and banking systems, CRM and commerce front ends, transportation and warehouse systems, as well as downstream finance.

• Lead ECC order-to-cash discovery initiatives, covering custom code and enhancement inventory, interface mapping, data quality, process liabilities, and business impact.

• Take ownership of SD-related simplification tasks and translate those into defined scope, effort, and risk assessments.

• Differentiate between business requirements and historical system behaviors, advising on what to keep, standardize, or phase out.

• Design strategies for brownfield, selective data transition, or greenfield approaches for high-volume OTC environments.

• Oversee the conversion and reconciliation of customer master, Business Partner, partner relationships, open orders, open deliveries, and open receivables data.

• Contribute OTC knowledge, checks, patterns, rules, and accelerators to the Tessera AI platform.

• Assist in SAP pre-sales opportunities by defining scope, approach, effort, and risk factors.

• Cultivate customer advocates and superusers, promote adoption, eliminate workarounds, and tackle adoption challenges.

• Provide input regarding OTC staffing for Center of Excellence capacity planning.

• Evaluate first-year outcomes, including target-state designs, simplification item assessment, clarity on custom-code and data positioning, improvements in adoption, and platform feedback.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of experience in SAP, focusing primarily on order-to-cash.

• Architect-level ownership of at least two full-lifecycle implementations, conversions, or transformations.

• Extensive, current, hands-on expertise in SAP SD, covering sales document and item category configuration, copy control, pricing via the condition technique, availability checks, delivery and goods issue, billing and billing plans, intercompany processes, returns and complaints, partner determination, and output determination.

• Working knowledge of related MM, FI-AR, and CO processes.

• Proven experience transitioning from ECC to S/4HANA in the order-to-cash area.

• Familiarity with SD simplification items, such as SAP Credit Management, Settlement Management, Revenue Accounting and Reporting, GTS, BRF+, document status table removal, pricing data model changes, and advanced ATP.

• Practical understanding of at least one transition method: brownfield system conversion, selective data transition, or greenfield.

• Knowledge of readiness and pre-check tools, custom code analysis, and realistic OTC cutover windows at scale.

• Proficient in sales, delivery, billing, and pricing tables and document flow.

• Understanding of customer master migration to Business Partner, along with IDoc and EDI message flows, enhancements, and user exits.

• Expertise in pricing and discount strategies, credit and block management, third-party and intercompany flows, returns, rebates, revenue recognition, billing, disputes, and collections.

• Strong client-facing presence with customer architects, business owners, and finance stakeholders.

• History of promoting customer adoption beyond the go-live phase.

• Capacity to manage multiple engagements at once.

• Willingness and ability to learn and become proficient in a new AI platform.

• Excellent verbal and written business English skills, along with strong presentation capabilities.

• Experience collaborating with distributed onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery teams.

• Strong discipline in asynchronous communication.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proficiency in Spanish, Portuguese, or German is advantageous but not required.

• Must be eligible to work in the U.S. and able to clarify if immigration sponsorship is necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Remote work opportunities within the U.S.