Global Integration Architect Lead - SAP Platforms

 

Location: Wrocaw - 2 days in office / 3 days remote

 

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The opportunity

 

The Global Integration Architect Lead is the senior technical authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise integration architecture across the global SAP ecosystem. This role owns crosssystem integration strategy, API standards, and eventdriven patterns that connect SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP SuccessFactors, and nonSAP platforms at scale.

Operating as a design authority and architectural leader, the role ensures integrations are secure, scalable, resilient, and CleanCore compliant, while enabling rapid business transformation and global process standardization. The Global Integration Architect Lead partners closely with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Product Owners, and delivery partners to ensure integration decisions support longterm enterprise outcomesnot just shortterm program delivery.

 

Your key responsibilities

 

Enterprise Integration Architecture Leadership:

• Define and own the global integration architecture strategy for SAP and nonSAP platforms across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, and HCM domains.
• Establish standard integration patterns (APIled, eventdriven, batch, synchronous/asynchronous) aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as the final design authority for complex, crossdomain integrations involving SAP S/4HANA, Ariba, SuccessFactors, and thirdparty systems.
• Ensure integration designs support global business processes (O2C, P2P, R2R, H2R) and enterprise data models.

 

SAP Integration Suite & API Management Ownership:

• Lead architectural usage of SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management, Event Mesh, Open Connectors where applicable).
• Define and enforce API standards, lifecycle management, versioning, security, throttling, and reuse strategies.
• Govern integration build quality to ensure consistency across internal teams, system integrators, and managed service providers.
• Drive adoption of eventdriven architectures using SAP standard events where available.

 

Clean Core & Extensibility Governance:

• Enforce Clean Core principles, minimizing custom pointtopoint integrations and fragile custom code.
• Define sidebyside extensibility patterns that protect SAP core stability while enabling innovation.
• Review and approve integrationrelated exceptions, documenting rationale and technical debt implications.

 

CrossProgram Design Authority & Risk Management:

• Participate in architecture review boards and release governance forums as the integration authority.
• Identify integration risks, performance bottlenecks, security gaps, and data consistency issues early in the lifecycle.
• Partner with Security, GRC, and Identity teams to ensure integrations meet compliance and audit requirements.

 

Leadership, Mentorship & Vendor Oversight:

• Lead and mentor regional and domain Integration Architects, setting technical direction and raising overall architecture maturity.
• Provide architectural oversight of SI partners and vendors, ensuring adherence to enterprise standards.
• Influence senior stakeholders by clearly articulating tradeoffs, risks, and longterm impacts of integration decisions.

 

To qualify for the role, you must have

 

SAP & Integration Expertise:

• Deep handson experience integrating SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors in large global landscapes.
• Strong expertise in SAP Integration Suite, including CPI and API Management.
• Proven experience designing APIled and eventdriven architectures at enterprise scale.
• Strong understanding of SAP standard APIs, data objects, and integration best practices.

 

Technical & Architectural Skills:

• Advanced knowledge of RESTful APIs, JSON/XML, OAuth2, SAML, certificatebased security, and integration performance tuning.
• Experience with hybrid integration scenarios (SAP cloud, hyperscalers, onprem systems).
• Ability to translate business requirements into clear, durable integration architectures rather than oneoff solutions.

 

Leadership & Enterprise Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to act as a global design authority, influencing without direct control.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across IT, business, and external partners.
• Experience working in large, matrixed, global organizations with multiple delivery teams.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in global SAP transformation programs (S/4HANA, RISE, Ariba, SuccessFactors).
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
• Exposure to AIassisted delivery, automation, or integration governance at scale.

 

Success Measures:

• Reduction in pointtopoint and nonstandard integrations.
• Increased reuse of APIs and integration patterns.
• Improved stability, performance, and auditability of integrations.
• Faster delivery enablement without erosion of architectural integrity.

 

What we offer

 

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations  Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. Well introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

 

• Continuous learning: Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: Well provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: Well give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

 

About EY

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Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

 

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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