Domain Architect SAP Platform
Key Skills
Job Description
Introduction of the job
As Domain Architect SAP Platform you act as the end-to-end owner for the SAP Platform domain within the Enterprise Platforms value stream, managing the domain teams to deliver the roadmap and ensuring the triple constraint of quality, time, and cost is met.
In this role you will report into the Head of Head of Enterprise Platforms.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities include:
- Roadmapping & Planning: translate the Enterprise Platforms value stream roadmap into SAP Platform domain plans; maintain the rolling six-quarter plan, including SAP platform modernization (e.g., S/4 infrastructure, BTP), lifecycle management, and technical standardization, driving measurable improvements in platform stability, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Delivery Management & Governance: manage dependencies, risks, and delivery governance, ensuring measurable improvements in platform capabilities, technical consistency, and modernization outcomes, while reducing technical debt and unnecessary customization
- Stakeholder & Supplier Management: manage SAP platform stakeholders and ecosystem partners (e.g., SAP, hyperscalers, system integrators), driving measurable improvements in platform standardization, roadmap delivery, and cost transparency
- Platform Evolution & Standardization: drive the evolution of the SAP platform stack (incl. Basis, BTP, and platform services like S&A), focusing on modernization, simplification, and standardization, while ensuring a clear separation from application ownership and operational run responsibilities
- Team Performance & Coaching: drive engineering practices for the SAP platform delivery, improving predictability and quality of platform delivery outcomes
- People Leadership: act as the people leader for SAP platform teams, fostering high-performing teams with strong capabilities in SAP platform engineering, Basis, and platform lifecycle delivery
Education, experience and role-relevant background
- Master’s degree or equivalent in IT, Engineering or related field
Minimum requirements
- Extensive experience (5+ years) in SAP platform architecture
- Demonstrable experience with SAP platform (ERP/ BTP including supporting tooling and cloud hosting)
Technical & functional skills
- End‑to‑end architecture & TCO ownership: Ability to SAP platform architecture and TCO
- Architecture vision & roadmap: Define SAP Platform
- Governance & secure‑by‑design: Enforce ERP controls and data integrity
- Architecture modelling & runway: Produce and maintain SAP Platform architecture artefacts and maintains application repositories
- SAP platform expertise: S/4HANA platform maintenance, security, compliance, extensibility, integration and lifecycle management
Behavioral & leadership skills
- Manages Ambiguity: Operate effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
- Collaborates: Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Decision Quality: Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Business Insight: Apply knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
- Strategic Mindset: See ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies.
Inclusion and diversity
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.
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Core Responsibilities
The Domain Architect SAP Platform acts as the end-to-end owner for the SAP Platform domain, managing teams to deliver roadmaps while ensuring quality, time, and cost constraints are met. Responsibilities include driving platform modernization, standardization, and lifecycle management while overseeing stakeholder relationships and team performance.
Requirements
Candidates must possess a Master's degree in IT, Engineering, or a related field and have at least 5 years of extensive experience in SAP platform architecture. Demonstrable expertise in SAP ERP, BTP, cloud hosting, and technical governance is required for this role.
About ASML
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Who are we? ASML is an innovation leader in the global semiconductor industry. We make machines that chipmakers use to mass produce microchips. Founded in 1984 in the Netherlands with just a handful of employees, we’ve now grown to over 40,000 employees, 143 nationalities and more than 60 locations around the world. What do we do? We provide chipmakers with hardware, software and services to mass produce patterns on silicon through lithography. Our lithography systems use ultraviolet light to create billions of tiny structures on silicon that together make up a microchip. We push our technology to new limits to enable our customers to create smaller, faster and more powerful chips. Who are our people? While you may think that only engineers and mathematicians work at ASML, you'll be surprised to find out that our people come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Across ASML, we have dedicated teams that manage customer support, communications and media, IT, software development and more. Every team in the company is essential for pushing our technology and the industry forward. If you love to tackle challenges and innovate in a collaborative, supportive and inclusive environment with all the flexibility and freedom to unleash your full potential, ASML is the place to be. Join us!