Lead Consultant - SAP BTP

Job Title: Lead Consultant - SAP BTP

Career Level: E

Introduction to role:

Are you ready to build and lead all aspects of a global SAP BTP landscape that accelerates how we discover and deliver life-changing medicines to patients? This is your opportunity to lead with purpose while working hands-on with the latest SAP cloud, integration, and AI services—at enterprise scale and with the investment to make aggressive ideas real.

As the design authority for SAP BTP, you will set the blueprint for how we build, integrate, and secure solutions across a sophisticated, hybrid ecosystem. Your leadership will enable clean core principles, scalable extensibility, and resilient integrations that power critical business processes end to end.

Can you transform sophisticated requirements into secure, scalable solutions used across continents? In this role, you will guide teams to adopt guidelines and shared standards, accelerate delivery with reusable assets, and shape a roadmap that improves business value from BTP across data, applications, and automation.

Accountabilities:

Architecture & Design:

• Create target, transition, and solution architectures aligned with Business and AstraZeneca enterprise standards bringing to bear the full potential of SAP BTP.

• Lead the adoption and governance of SAP BTP Guidance Framework and decision guideline for BTP solutions.

• Ability to interpret complex requirements and develop a solution blueprint, crafting scalable, robust, and balanced end-to-end solutions.

• Discover, standardize and accelerate development projects using SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

SAP BTP Platform & Services:

• Deep expertise across SAP BTP core services and plan global SAP BTP landscapes, estimating costs, capacity, security, and user allocations across projects, services, and regions.

• Guide application development teams on BTP protocols, SAP fundamental compose principles, and extensibility guidelines.

• Optimize and manage integration strategies across hybrid landscapes: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and third-party systems.

• Manage Application Lifecycle management and runtimes such as Cloud Foundry / Kyma / ABAP Environment, Connectivity, Security, and Integration Suite.

• Build secure, high-performance applications with a focus on scalability, resilience, and reliability.

SAP BTP AI/GenAI Authority:

• Designs and deploys AI-powered solutions on SAP BTP, demonstrating services like AI Core, AI Launchpad and integrates Generative AI capabilities into Application Development, Automation and Integration.

Security & Compliance:

• Design secure BTP landscapes aligned with enterprise and regulatory standards.

• Implement role-based access, authentication, authorization, and data privacy controls.

• Collaborate with security teams on audits and compliance (especially relevant for BFS).

• Knowledge on Identity and Access Management on BTP.

Leadership & Governance:

• Act as technical lead and primary decision-maker for build aspects of BTP initiatives.

• Review solution designs, code, and architecture work.

• Mentor architects and senior developers to uplift standards and practices.

• Engage with SAP, system integrators, and vendors for roadmap alignment.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Experience 12-14 yrs in SAP ABAP, CPI, with a minimum of 4 years dedicated to SAP BTP

• At least 5 full life cycle project implementation experience

• Experience of building high performing project teams

• Superb Communication and Presentation skills

• Guide the team in demonstrating BTP for development and AI solutions deployment.

• Provide BTP as the platform for integrating multiple SAP SaaS and Data solutions

• Experience in BTP services and knowledge of the capabilities of the platform.

• Proficiency working with SAP BAS, SAP CAP, RAP, SAP Fiori/UI5, and cloud-native technologies.

• Experience with SAP Build apps, SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Build Work zone.

• Configure custom metrics, thresholds to monitor applications and databases and alerts for services and applications.

• Knowledge of Side-by-Side extensibility concepts with hands on experience building extensions to SAP LoB solutions using low code/no code tools, SAP Build code, ABAP environment.

• SAP BTP Integration Suite and Event Mesh (basic to intermediate)

• Experience with SAP Core AI and SAP AI Launchpad and other SAP Business AI services.

• Hands on development experience with Java, JavaScript/Ui5, Node.js or ABAP.

• Willingness to present showcases internally and externally.

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Participated in solution architecting and presentations

• Ability to work in multi-cultural international environment

• Requirement is to Build BTP practice, provide innovative solutions for delivery

• Hands-on development experience in Python is a must, employing tools like Langchain and LangGraph would be added advantage.

• High motivation to explore S/4HANA innovations to build up demo and showcases and to drive further development independently.

• Diligent working style in testing and documentation.

• SAP certification is helpful Must have superb communication, interpersonal skills, along with a positive work demeanor and strong self-motivation to work independently and as well as in a team.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca:

Here you can pair deep technical mastery with passionate impact, shaping how next-generation digital platforms accelerate real outcomes for patients. You will work with advanced cloud services, AI, and modern engineering practices, surrounded by peers who challenge ideas and support bold delivery. With strong backing and a clear digital ambition, we bring specialists from across the enterprise together to solve problems that matter, build reusable capabilities at scale, and turn pioneering technology into everyday value. We value courtesy alongside ambition and create space for experimentation, learning, and ownership so your best ideas can move from whiteboard to production.

Call to Action:

If you are ready to own the BTP strategy and engineering that powers life-changing medicines, step forward and shape what’s next with us.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.