SAP Solution Architect - £655p/d Inside IR35 - Hybrid

SAP Solution Architect

Exalto Consulting is supporting a confidential programme to appoint an experienced SAP Solution Architect. This role will provide end-to-end solution oversight across multiple SAP workstreams, ensuring designs are integrated, secure, and aligned to programme goals and SAP best practice.

What you'll do

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture across HR/Payroll, Procurement, Finance, and Reporting
• Act as the design authority across workstreams: review, challenge, and approve designs and controlled deviations
• Ensure solutions follow a fit-to-standard approach and align to SAP best practices and cloud/hybrid constraints
• Define and govern integration patterns across:
  
  • HR/Payroll systems
  • S/4HANA Finance
  • Procurement solutions
  • Reporting and analytics platforms
• Work closely with Technical, Integration, Data, Security, and Infrastructure teams to ensure consistent master data, transactional flows, and reporting outputs
• Translate business needs into workable architectural options, explaining trade-offs, risks, and impacts clearly
• Support design boards, governance forums, assurance reviews, and maintain high-quality solution documentation
• Identify and manage architectural risks, dependencies, and technical debt, ensuring non-functional requirements are met (security, performance, scalability, auditability)

Experience we're looking for (essential)

• Strong background as an SAP Solution Architect on large, multi-workstream programmes
• Proven experience across Finance, Procurement, HR/Payroll, and Reporting
• Deep understanding of SAP S/4HANA architecture (public cloud and/or hybrid)
• Strong integration architecture experience (APIs, Middleware, event-driven integration)
• Experience with SAP Activate and delivery governance using SAP Cloud ALM
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and detailed design levels
• Clear communicator with strong stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

• Experience in UK public sector/local government
• Knowledge of payroll integrations and third-party HR/PY systems
• Experience with SAP analytics (eg, Embedded Analytics, SAC)
• Background working in programmes with strong governance and audit requirements

Certifications (desirable)

• SAP Solution Architect and/or relevant SAP certifications
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud certification

Contract overview

• Contract (Inside IR35/PAYE)
• Hybrid working
• Rate: £655 per day (Inside IR35/PAYE)
• Start: subject to pre-employment screening (BPSS)

If this aligns with your background, share your CV and a short note on your recent SAP architecture work across the domains above, and we'll confirm the next steps.