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SAP Architecture Lead

McCain Foods

SAP Architecture Lead

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Gurugram, Haryana, IND

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Food • Retail • Agriculture • Manufacturing

At McCain Foods we know the importance that food plays in people's lives.

The Role

Lead end-to-end SAP S/4HANA architecture, govern enterprise architecture in SAP LeanIX, embed SAP AI/BTP capabilities, enforce design standards, oversee major transformations, and mentor architecture teams.

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Position Title: SAP Architecture Lead
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 39785
Role Summary
The SAP Architecture Lead owns the end-to-end architectural vision and integrity of the SAP S/4HANA landscape, ensuring that solution, application, and integration architecture align with enterprise strategy and emerging AI-driven capabilities. Acting as a bridge between business intent and technical execution, this role sets architectural standards, governs the technology roadmap, and partners with global functional, technical, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, future-ready SAP environments. A core expectation is the active use of SAP LeanIX to model, govern, and communicate the enterprise architecture landscape.
Key Responsibilities

Define and own the target-state SAP S/4HANA architecture across application, data, integration, and technical layers, ensuring alignment with the broader enterprise architecture.
Maintain the SAP architecture landscape, application portfolio, and technology roadmaps within SAP LeanIX, driving transparency, rationalization, and data-driven decision-making.
Embed AI and intelligent enterprise capabilities into the architecture roadmap - including SAP Business AI, Joule, generative-AI use cases on SAP BTP, and AI-assisted automation across business processes.
Establish and enforce architecture governance, design principles, and standards across projects and run-state operations.
Provide architectural oversight for major programs (greenfield, brownfield, and selective transformations), integrations, and BTP-based extensions.
Evaluate emerging SAP technologies and AI tooling, advising leadership on adoption, fit, and value realization.
Partner with security, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure compliance, performance, scalability, and resilience.
Mentor architects and technical leads, raising the overall architectural maturity of the organization.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Approximately 15 years of experience in SAP Architecture, with significant depth in S/4HANA solution and technical architecture.
Demonstrated hands-on experience with SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture management, portfolio rationalization, and roadmap governance.
Strong understanding of SAP BTP, integration architecture, and the SAP AI/intelligent enterprise portfolio.
Proven track record leading architecture for large, complex, multi-region SAP landscapes.

Soft Skills & Leadership

Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a proven ability to engage global functional, technical, and business stakeholders and translate complex architecture into business-relevant terms.
Strong influencing, facilitation, and consensus-building abilities across geographies and cultures.
Confident decision-making, with the maturity to balance strategic vision against delivery constraints.
Mentorship and team-leadership orientation suited to a mid-management role.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

SAP and/or TOGAF architecture certifications.
Experience in regulated or manufacturing/consumer-goods environments.
Exposure to cloud (RISE with SAP / hyperscaler) and large-scale transformation programs.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Digital Technology
Department: S4 Operations
Location(s): IN - India : Haryana : Gurgaon
Company: McCain Foods(India) P Ltd

Skills Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
Approximately 15 years of experience in SAP Architecture with deep S/4HANA solution and technical architecture expertise.
Hands-on experience with SAP LeanIX for enterprise architecture management and portfolio rationalization.
Strong understanding of SAP BTP, integration architecture, and the SAP AI/intelligent enterprise portfolio.
Proven track record leading architecture for large, complex, multi-region SAP landscapes.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills engaging global functional, technical, and business stakeholders.
Strong influencing, facilitation, and consensus-building abilities across geographies and cultures.
Mentorship and team-leadership orientation suited to a mid-management role.
SAP and/or TOGAF architecture certifications.
Experience in regulated or manufacturing/consumer-goods environments.
Exposure to cloud (RISE with SAP / hyperscaler) and large-scale transformation programs.

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The Company

HQ: Florenceville-Bristol, NB

20,000 Employees

Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

The power it has to uplift and bring people, Guided by our purpose - Celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food - we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change - today, tomorrow and for generations to come. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $10 billion. Through our investment and innovation, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers. We are passionate about supporting and developing our people-providing opportunities to grow and learn in their roles, as well as building careers for the long term.

Why Work With Us

We are working to bring digital tools and data into our processes to drive efficiency, automation and data-driven insights. From connecting our business, enabling our supply chain, supporting our customers, to reinventing agriculture. So if you are a tech expert looking to join a company transforming technology, think of McCain.

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Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

In both our manufacturing plants and corporate offices, we believe connection brings out the best in our people. While in-office expectations will vary by role, flexibility is key. In our corporate offices, the hybrid standard is 3-days in office.

Typical time on-site: Flexible