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The Platform Architect is the person who connects all these dots: architecture, extensibility, developer enablement, and governance. If you want to shape a global SAP landscape across a portfolio of iconic luxury Maisons, this is the role.\nHOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?\nWithin the SAP platform team, the SAP Platform Architect defines and governs the SAP platform architecture across S/4HANA (ERP, EWM, GTS…), SAP BTP, and all integration touchpoints. Shaping the technology landscape, setting guardrails, and ensuring every extension or customisation is justified, sustainable, and future-proof.\nYou will lead the OSBF Design Authority, promote Clean Core principles and SAP's extensibility strategy (side-by-side vs. in-app), and ensure alignment with both SAP's product roadmap and our enterprise architecture.\nYour impact spans across a multi-stream technical roadmap covering 4 strategic pillars:\n1. Architecture Vision & Roadmap\nOwn and drive the architectural direction of the platform across Core Architecture, BTP & Development.\nParticipate in strategic architectural decisions such as use cases for BTP, Federated platforms (Mendix, Tulip, Pega…), ERP/EWM decoupling, S/4HANA continuous evolution, including associated topics such as Job Scheduling or establishing a Printing Platform for the group.\nCollaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team on cross-cutting concerns such as Disaster Recovery design and enterprise-wide technology alignment.\nEvolve the Platform to further integrate CI/CD practices.\nIntegrate Richemont AI strategy in the platform roadmap & design.\nDefine consumable and reusable services for product teams that accelerate delivery, increase product teams' autonomy, and reduce the need for custom development, duplicated effort, and reliance on central platform expertise.\n2. Clean Core Governance & Extensibility Strategy\nDefine and enforce Clean Core guidelines: minimise custom code, maximise standard, and leverage key-user extensibility and BTP side-by-side extensions.\nOwn the decision framework for \"where to extend\": in-app (BAdIs, RAP, key-user extensibility) vs. side-by-side (CAP on BTP, Integration Suite, or Federated Platforms).\nGuide product teams on the right extensibility pattern for each use case.\nConduct architecture reviews for all significant developments.\n3. Standards, Patterns & Guardrails\nIntegrates Group Standards for reusable architecture patterns, in particular for API design and ownership, event-driven integration, data models, CDS views, and Fiori apps.\nChampion configuration as Code for sap platforms, including BTP (Terraform) which adheres to Richemont guidelines in terms of security, Identity management and connectivity.\nPublish and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and reference architectures.\nGuide the technical archiving and data volume management strategy and application retirement (ILM).\nProvide architectural direction on data lifecycle decisions that impact platform performance, storage costs, and compliance.\n4. Community & Enablement\nParticipate in cross-team design reviews and lead the SAP platform Architecture Board.\nEstablish and animate an Architect Community across the product teams.\nStay ahead of SAP technology evolution through continuous learning, SAP community engagement, and vendor dialogue.\nHOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?\nEducation & Experience\n10+ years of progressive experience in SAP ecosystems, with deep expertise across S/4HANA, SAP BTP, and hybrid integration landscapes.\n3+ years in an SAP platform architecture role.\nMaster’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience.\nTechnical Expertise\nSAP S/4HANA: Deep understanding of S/4HANA architecture, Clean Core methodology, custom code analysis (ATC, Custom Code Migration app), and extensibility options (BAdIs, RAP, key-user extensibility).\nSAP BTP: Strong knowledge of the BTP service portfolio - CAP, Integration Suite, SAP Build Work Zone, HANA Cloud, AI Core / Generative AI Hub, Event Mesh, Destination & Connectivity services.\nArchitecture Patterns: Proven expertise in API-first design, event-driven architecture, side-by-side extensions, and Fiori/UX architecture.\nUnderstanding of CI/CD pipelines, configuration as code - Terraform\nSecurity Awareness: Solid understanding of SAML 2.0, OIDC, SSO, and identity management concepts\nRISE: Understanding of the RISE with SAP operating model and SAP Cloud ALM.\nSoft Skills & Behaviours\nVisionary yet pragmatic: Balances long-term architecture ambition with short-term delivery reality (strategic vs. tactical).\nStrong conviction with open mind: Defends architectural principles but listens to field constraints.\nExcellent communicator: Explains complex architecture concepts to business stakeholders, product teams, and technical audiences alike.\nCollaborative authority: Influences without commanding; earns trust through expertise. Works with security, operations, and enterprise architecture - not in place of them.\nSystems thinking: Sees the whole SAP landscape as interconnected and integrated within a global, heterogeneous enterprise landscape. Never forgets the Enterprise Architecture guiding principles.\nIntellectual curiosity: Continuously tracks SAP innovation and industry best practices.\nWHAT MAKES OUR GROUP DIFFERENT?\nOur true power does not lie in our similarities but in the rich diversity of our arts, cultures, and human skills, as well as our specific ability to foster untapped potential.\n- We value, collegiality, Courage, Curiosity, Empathy, Humility and Integrity.\n- We care for the world we live in.\nYOUR JOURNEY WITH US\nOur recruitment journey for this role is designed to be respectful, transparent and grounded in genuine dialogue. 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