ERP Technical Architect

At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, a group of passionate and determined people work to design, develop, manufacture and race the cars driven by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Grand Prix winner George Russell.
Whether working in our Operations, Technical, Race or Business Support functions, we are all in and aspire to build the greatest team in the history of our sport.
Every individual plays their part. No stone is left unturned in the chase for every tenth of a second. The history of our sport is long and rich, and we are continuing our journey with renewed effort year on year. Record books remember the names of a few, but history is written by the many.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced ERP Technical Architect to join our ERP Team.
As our ERP Technical Architect, you will be charged to lead all technical aspects of our ERP ecosystem ensuring that it is capable of adapting to the fast paced Formula 1 business as well as delivering a best in class platform to support the solutions currently used or those required in the future. You will be collaborating with a team of highly experienced and professional ERP resources to ensure appropriate standards are adopted and followed to create a composable architecture which can be refreshed and updated with as minimal disruption to the business as possible.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience of all technical aspects associated with a modern ERP landscape, these include the underlying database elements, virtual data layers, authorisations and compliance, multiple user experience elements, micro services, API’s, event management and the integration layer between applications and platforms. Whilst the main ERP landscape is SAP S/4HANA, experience of other ERP’s solutions and especially cloud-based solutions is extremely important.
Example activities which may take place as part of technical lifecycle management:
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Platform performance management, alerting and predictive analysis.
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General Risk and Compliance management.
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Proof of Concepts.
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Performance and automated testing governance.
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Service Transition and support.
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User experience optimisation.
To be successful you will have:
Essential
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Significant demonstrable years of proven SAP Technical experience on SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA and Cloud technologies.
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Significant proven experience in a Technical Architect role.
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Deep technical knowledge of SAP basis, authorisations, compliance and license auditing.
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Extensive knowledge of SAP Solution Manager.
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Extensive knowledge of SAP Best Practices particularly relating to SAP BTP and Event Management.
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Extensive knowledge of SAP Data Layer.
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Extensive knowledge of On-Premise and Cloud landscape management.
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Good knowledge of the latest development methodologies.
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Extensive experience of SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Basis.
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Extensive experience of SAP authorisations across GUI and Fiori.
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Extensive experience of integration methodologies and technologies.
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Extensive experience of SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry and NEO).
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Excellent planning, communication, influencing and negotiation skills.
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Will embrace working in a fast paced, high frequency change environment.
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Embody our values of Passion, Respect, Innovation, Determination and Excellence incorporating them into the everyday language of the team.
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Organised, flexible, proactive and results-oriented.
Desirable
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Experience of Agile, Activate and Product methodologies.
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Experience of working within an Agile product based team.
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Experience of recognised architecture frameworks e.g TOGAF.
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Experience of Non SAP platform and landscape management.
Benefits:
Our riverside campus is powered by 100% renewably sourced energy and features an on-site gym and exercise studio, subsidised restaurant and on-site parking with EV chargers available.
We offer a competitive and attractive package of benefits including a generous bonus scheme, Mercedes car lease scheme, private medical cover, life assurance and 25 days holiday. We pride ourselves on our family-friendly environment, employee well-being programme and offer flexible working opportunities.
Why us:
At the heart of our performance are our people. Every member of our team has a voice and plays their part in contributing to our successes on and off the racetrack. We take pride in creating an innovative, collaborative and high-performance culture where all of our team members are respected, empowered and valued.
Through our Accelerate 25 programme, we are continuously working to make our team even more diverse and inclusive. Whatever your background, we believe that you will find working with us rewarding and enriching