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Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.\nAbout the Role:\nAbout the Role \nWiley is seeking an experienced SAP Solution Architect to serve as a technical and functional authority across our enterprise SAP landscape. Spanning Finance & Controlling (FI/CO), Order-to-Cash (OTC), Revenue Accounting & Reporting (RAR), Warehouse Management (WM), Production Planning (PP), and adjacent modules, this role is central to designing, governing, and guiding end-to-end SAP solutions in alignment with enterprise standards, SAP best practices, and Wiley’s broader digital transformation objectives.\nThe SAP Solution Architect acts as the design authority across the SAP ecosystem - integrating SAP ECC (and/or S/4HANA), BTP, Ariba, Concur, SuccessFactors, finance, supply chain, and third-party systems - while championing a Clean Core approach and enabling Wiley’s strategic roadmap. Working at the intersection of Business, Product, Technology, and Delivery teams, this role translates complex business requirements into well-structured, scalable SAP solutions and produces clear design artifacts that empower delivery teams to execute with confidence.\nThe successful candidate brings deep functional and technical SAP expertise across multiple modules, strong command of integration and architecture patterns, proven experience leading complex transformation programs, and the ability to act as a trusted advisor and thought leader across business and technology functions.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Architecture & Solution Design \nLead and architect end-to-end SAP solutions with a strong focus on ECC (and/or S/4HANA), across diverse business domains and enterprise-wide programs.\nDefine comprehensive solution architectures for the full SAP ecosystem, including technical blueprints, integration architectures, cost models, and staffing strategies for significant initiatives.\nDesign scalable, secure, and resilient solution approaches that balance functional requirements, technical soundness, long-term maintainability, and Wiley’s enterprise technology roadmap.\nAssess and recommend SAP deployment options (ECC, S/4HANA, PCE, RISE with SAP, BTP extensions) for assigned business domains, applying recognized solution architecture methodologies and frameworks.\nDrive build vs. configure vs. extend vs. integrate decisions to maximize ROI, minimize technical debt, and preserve Clean Core integrity.\nEvaluate and ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of SAP solutions, defining non-functional requirements and validating that implemented solutions meet them.\nDrive solutioning for complex proposals, transformation business cases, and competitive initiatives, clearly articulating value through compelling storytelling and executive-level communication.\nLeverage AI, intelligent tooling, and automation to create innovative and efficient solution architectures, continuously raising the quality and speed of delivery.\n2. Clean Core & SAP Best Practices \nChampion and enforce Clean Core principles across all SAP programs, minimizing customizations and ensuring solutions leverage standard SAP capabilities wherever possible.\nArchitect integrations using standard SAP APIs, events, and SAP Integration Suite (CPI), establishing extension patterns for requirements not met by standard functionality.\nOversee the configuration and customization of SAP modules, ensuring all changes are governed, documented, and aligned with enterprise architectural standards.\nEnsure data consistency and integrity across procurement, finance, reporting, and downstream platforms.\nMaintain expertise in SAP S/4HANA innovations, BTP services, Clean Core evolution, and RISE/GROW offerings, proactively identifying adoption opportunities.\nSupport SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC) requirements across relevant business and financial processes.\n3. Documentation & Design Artefacts \nProduce and maintain comprehensive, clear, and actionable design artefacts including Solution Architecture Documents, Functional Design Documents (FDDs), Technical Design Documents (TDDs), Interface/API Design Specs, and Data Migration blueprints.\nCreate architecture and process flow diagrams that are consumable by both technical and non-technical stakeholders, using tools such as SAP Signavio, LeanIX, or equivalent enterprise process and architecture modelling platforms.\nContribute to and maintain the architecture decision logs, capturing rationale, trade-offs, and constraints for key design choices.\nEnsure all documentation is current, accessible, and serves as a reliable reference for delivery teams, auditors, and governance bodies throughout the project lifecycle.\nDevelop clear technical specifications and integration plans that bridge business requirements and engineering execution without ambiguity.\n4. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement\nAct as the primary architecture liaison between IT, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and external partners - ensuring alignment, transparency, and confidence across all stakeholders.\nPartner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and executive stakeholders to assess capability requests, validate requirements, estimate effort and feasibility, and contribute to roadmap and investment decisions.\nFacilitate design workshops, architecture reviews, sprint planning, and transition sessions to ensure clarity before implementation begins and continuity through go-live and stabilization.\nTranslate complex SAP architecture concepts into plain-language guidance for business audiences, and business requirements into precise technical specifications for engineering teams.\nCollaborate with external SAP partners, system integrators, and SAP advisory teams to leverage best practices, drive quality, and deliver outcomes within architectural guardrails.\nProvide architectural leadership and governance across system integrators and vendor delivery teams, ensuring solution consistency and accountability.\nAct as a thought leader and trusted advisor within the SAP community and broader technology landscape, representing Wiley’s architecture perspective in external forums where relevant.\nMentor and coach functional and technical team members on SAP architecture principles, integration patterns, and best practices, helping to uplift capability across the SAP practice.\n5. AI, Innovation & Forward-Thinking\nIdentify and support opportunities to embed AI/ML capabilities - including SAP Joule, BTP AI Core, embedded analytics, and third-party AI integrations - into core SAP processes.\nContribute to the assessment and piloting of generative AI use cases for SAP configuration assistance, test automation, intelligent document processing, and predictive operations.\nLeverage proficiency in AI tooling and intelligent automation to create more efficient, innovative solution architectures and accelerate delivery effectiveness.\nSupport the introduction of modern integration paradigms - event-driven architecture, API-first design, SAP Integration Suite - to modernize Wiley’s SAP footprint.\nStay current with SAP’s evolving product landscape and bring relevant adoption ideas to the team, contributing to internal knowledge-sharing, communities of practice, and technology discussions.\n6. Governance & Delivery Oversight \nServe as the design authority for SAP solutions across programs and releases - reviewing and approving functional designs, integrations, and configuration changes before implementation.\nParticipate in Architecture Review Board (ARB) sessions to assess solution proposals against architectural standards and strategic fit.\nIdentify architectural risks, technical debt, and integration dependencies early; develop and communicate mitigation strategies proactively.\nSupport security, compliance, and audit requirements related to SAP systems (SOX, GDPR, data retention, SoD), ensuring solutions meet governance and regulatory obligations.\nOversee technical assessments and code reviews to maintain solution quality and support system testing activities across program delivery phases.\n7. Project Delivery & Operational Excellence\nLead and manage SAP implementation projects from inception to completion, coordinating with cross-functional delivery teams to ensure successful, on-time, on-budget outcomes.\nSupport the management of project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation in collaboration with Program and Project Managers.\nProvide training, guidance, and enablement support to end-users and IT team members on new SAP capabilities and architectural changes.\nRequired Qualifications & Experience\nEducation\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.\nExperience \n10+ years of SAP experience with demonstrated expertise in architecture and solution design across multiple modules and business domains.\nProven experience architecting SAP solutions in large, complex enterprise environments, including multi-system landscapes and global rollouts.\nHands-on experience across three or more of the following domains: FI/CO, Order-to-Cash (SD/AR/Credit Management), Warehouse Management (WM/EWM), Production Planning (PP/MRP), RAR/Revenue Accounting.\nExperience integrating SAP products with SAP S/4HANA or ECC, and proven design and build of BTP applications or extensions.\nParticipation in at least two full-cycle SAP implementations or significant transformation programs (e.g., S/4HANA migration, system consolidation, global rollouts).\nDemonstrated ability to produce enterprise-quality architecture and design documentation consumed by senior stakeholders and delivery teams alike.\nExperience operating within enterprise architecture governance frameworks and working across global, matrixed organizations.\nPrior exposure to working with system integrators or vendor technology partners in a program delivery context.\nTechnical & Functional Skills - SAP \nDeep working knowledge of SAP ECC (on-premise and/or PCE/RISE or S/4HANA) and key functional areas across FI/CO, SD/OTC, RAR, MM, WM/EWM, and PP.\nStrong expertise in SAP integration technologies: SAP Integration Suite (CPI/API Management), RFC/BAPI/IDoc, OData/REST/SOAP, and event-driven integration patterns.\nSolid command of Clean Core principles, the SAP extensibility model, side-by-side extensions, and S/4HANA migration tooling.\nProficiency with SAP BTP services: Integration Suite, Business Application Studio (BAS), CAP framework, Fiori/UI5, Workflow Management, and BTP extension development.\nStrong understanding of data, security, and authorization models in SAP landscapes, including roles, SoD, and compliance requirements.\nExperience with SAP Document and Reporting Compliance (DRC) in a multi-country or regulatory context.\nUnderstanding of SAP API Management, CDS views, and data modelling principles within S/4HANA.\nProficiency in general Solution Architecture methodologies and frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent); 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