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About the role

SAP architecture work

An SAP Architect shapes the system design behind business processes and technical delivery. The role covers landscape planning, module alignment, integration design, security boundaries, and upgrade paths. A strong architect keeps the solution stable, scalable, and fit for change.

Typical deliverables include:

  • Target architecture and landscape design
  • Integration concepts for SAP and non-SAP systems
  • S/4HANA transition guidance
  • Technical governance for custom code and extensions
  • Decision papers for platform, data, and interface topics

Core skills

A skilled SAP Architect understands both business process flow and system detail. They need broad SAP knowledge across modules and a clear view of how applications, data, and infrastructure interact.

Key skills often include:

  • SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and Fiori architecture
  • API, middleware, and interface design
  • Data model and master data concepts
  • Authorization and role design
  • Cloud and hybrid deployment planning

Tools and methods

The role often works with Solution Manager, SAP Cloud ALM, integration middleware, transport controls, and architecture diagrams. Depending on the project, the architect may guide fit-to-standard workshops, review custom developments, or define the blueprint for a carve-out, rollout, or migration.

Strong candidates do not just know the tools. They can explain trade-offs, reduce complexity, and keep delivery teams aligned on one technical direction.

When companies hire

Companies bring in freelance SAP Architects when the scope is large, urgent, or politically sensitive. This is common during S/4HANA programs, post-merger harmonization, interface redesign, security clean-up, or when an internal team needs senior guidance for a tricky decision.

In Germany, this is especially relevant for industrial groups, automotive suppliers, logistics companies, and enterprise shared service centers. Some clients want on-site workshops in German; others need remote architecture support across mixed international teams.

What strong experts do

A strong architect asks the right questions early and documents decisions clearly. They balance standard SAP design with necessary extensions, keep an eye on testability and operations, and know when a process change is better than a technical workaround.

Look for people who can:

  • Align business, basis, development, and security teams
  • Turn requirements into clean solution options
  • Spot risks in interfaces, data, and custom code
  • Support delivery without taking over every detail

Common profile signals

Good SAP Architects are often also known as SAP solution architects, SAP technical architects, or SAP enterprise architects. In some projects, the title may lean toward lead architect, depending on whether the focus is on one system, an entire landscape, or a transformation program.

The strongest profiles show real project ownership, not just configuration knowledge. They can defend a design, answer hard questions from stakeholders, and stay practical when deadlines tighten.

Meet FRATCH SAP Architects

Abhishek Sharma

SAP FICO Architect | Solution Architect | Lead Consultant

Last position:

Business Process Manager / SAP FICO Owner at Dynapac GmbH

  • Defined S/4HANA finance solution architecture and led full project lifecycle — Blueprint through Hypercare — for global rollout.
  • Designed global finance templates and COPA characteristics, harmonizing financial reporting across business units.
  • Implemented role-based authorizations, SOD controls, and master data governance; managed provisioning and training for 200+ users.
  • Coordinated cross-module integrations (MM, SD, PP) and third-party systems (Salesforce, SAP DRC, E-Invoicing), reducing month-end close from 5 days to 2 days.
  • Prepared functional specifications, supported ABAP development, and drove problem management practices that reduced recurring incidents.
Abhishek Sharma

Philipp Dölker

SAP Architect & Developer (S/4 & BTP)

Freudenstadt

Last position:

IT Architect & IT Product Manager at Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

  • Optimization of software lifecycle processes for SAP platform apps (BTP CAP)
  • Development of template MCP servers for S/4 CALM systems of Porsche AI (BTP)
  • Design, development, and IT product management for two MS CoPilot custom agents supporting SAP systems (incl. MCP integration)
  • Lead Center of Practice: AI-assisted ABAP development
  • Initiation and coordination of the proof of concept implementation of conduct.ai
  • Advising application teams on software and integration architecture, clean core principles and implementation, as well as AI use on the SAP platform
Philipp Dölker

Steffen König

SAP Business Process Architect Finance/Controlling

Weimar

Last position:

SAP Business Process Architect Finance/Controlling at Project work via SAP partners (TSI, cbs, Deloitte, Scheer etc.) and 4SCC

  • Conversion of Rewe's business processes to S4 Asset Management and Management Accounting in SAP S/4HANA
  • Plan, build, run of SAP finance/controlling processes (S/4HANA, FI/CO, FSCM, PS/IM, WM, Concur) for Daimler, V Zug, Humbaur, WinGD, and others
  • Management of carve-out/carve-in in FI(CO) at Megatech (2018) and EnBW (2019)
  • Requirement engineering for the R2R stream (2017/18), Douglas franchise integration, Aveniq public cloud transition, and PG-FI stabilization
  • Analysis and development of month-end closing in S/4HANA finance projects for ESA, Zür Rose Suisse, Dräxlmaier, Airbus, DB Schenker, GEA, and Bucher AG
  • Application of SAP Activate methodology and Advanced Payment Management
  • Playbook SAP Financials: Project Insights & Success supplemented
Steffen König

Serge Driendl-Struß

SAP S/4HANA Key Account Support, Training & Prototyping

Kempten (Allgäu)

Last position:

Solution Architect Manufacturing (PS, PP, PEO, PLM, PM/EAM) at EFW – Elbe Flugzeugwerke / Airbus

  • Focus on aircraft conversion, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) & production processes.
  • Development of a PEO prototype (architecture, customizing) with a focus on Change Record and Manufacturing.
Serge Driendl-Struß

Mevin Darril Jacob Peter

SAP S/4HANA EWM Solution Architect | SAP Supply Chain & Logistics Expert | Functional Consultant

Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Last position:

Solution Architect at Novo Nordisk A/S

  • Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark, with manufacturing sites in eight countries and subsidiaries or offices in five more. As part of setting up their largest automated production facility, SAP S/4HANA was implemented. The implementation of S/4HANA EWM plays a crucial role in enabling automation across all business processes.

  • Since this is a greenfield project with extensive automation, the goal is to achieve the highest possible level of automation in most business processes. Particularly in pharmaceutical processes, hygiene, accuracy, validation, and error-free execution are essential – all of which are supported by automation. My role as Solution Architect is to understand the business processes and provide efficient automated workflows for high-quality product manufacturing.

  • As Solution Architect, I conducted workshops in the warehouse areas to analyze and understand the pharmaceutical business processes and align them with the standard or template structure.

  • Identifying and highlighting process gaps and developing suitable solutions.

  • Coordinating with third-party vendors and other IT stakeholders to develop optimized automated processes.

  • Documenting and reviewing the business process design according to the agreed solution with the business unit.

  • Mapping inbound, internal, outbound, and production-integrated processes from the EWM perspective with automation considerations.

  • Guiding the team in fully setting up the solution in EWM and supporting the testing activities.

  • Member of the central architecture team to share best practices, develop guidelines, and support other implementation teams with solution architecture.

Mevin Darril Jacob Peter

Nick Fiolitakis

SAP Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect

Limburgerhof

Last position:

SAP Senior Managing Consultant and Enterprise Architect at NTT Data

  • Lead presales engagements and architect tailored S/4HANA rollout solutions for digital transformation initiatives
  • Design and implement large-scale template solutions for global S/4HANA transformations in multinational organizations
  • Conduct client workshops across transformation phases, including strategic sessions with C-Level executives
  • Serve as Program Manager and Enterprise Architect, providing end-to-end template solutions
  • Act as the primary liaison between project teams and senior executives, bridging leadership across customer and delivery teams
  • Maintain program leadership and stakeholder commitment throughout the lifecycle
  • Advocate program imperatives and coach client sponsors to ensure alignment and momentum
  • Drive program ownership and direct cross-stream business teams toward strategic outcomes
  • Assume full accountability for program success and realization of business benefits
  • Contribute to comprehensive project management plans: organizational structure, governance, escalation paths, toolsets, communication protocols, and stakeholder engagement
  • Govern integration sessions and lead SAP application landscape design and rollout structure
  • Own overall program planning, execution, and monitoring, integrating country-specific rollouts into the core framework
  • Establish and manage governance frameworks including scope control, financial oversight, resource allocation, risk mitigation, communications, and reporting
  • Monitor daily project progress and ensure consistent delivery on scope, timeline, budget, and quality objectives
  • Collaborate with sponsors and partners to manage risk and define mitigation strategies
  • Resolve escalations with speed and clarity to protect program integrity
  • Define and implement organizational change management and change control processes
  • Build and sustain high-performing teams while promoting talent growth and skill development
  • Hire and develop employees to reinforce program capability and long-term success
  • Lead customer workshops for exploring solutions in financials and integrate the solution within S/4HANA and with external applications
  • Lead realize sprints in financial FICO scope, overseeing testing, data migration, and cutover
Nick Fiolitakis

Dominik Meyenburg

Data Solution Architect

Düsseldorf

Last position:

Data Solution Architect at Dormakaba (Switzerland)

  • Leading the MDM and Idea to Market team in implementing an SAP Master Data Governance solution and PTC Windchill integration as part of a global S/4 HANA transformation
  • Independently managing workshops within the end-to-end streams
  • Developing a state-of-the-art business partner and material master data design to enable AI-supported business decisions
  • Designing and implementing template data management processes for a global S/4 HANA SAP system
Dominik Meyenburg

Sai Revuri Venkata

SAP Solution Architect & Developer (Datasphere)

Berlin

Last position:

SAP Solution Architect & Developer (Datasphere) at PwC US

  • Spearheaded the development of BW Bridge and Datasphere models, integrating S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and BDC to enable real-time analytics in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
  • Designed and implemented Calculation Views using SAP HANA Modeler, aligning with LEONI's requirement for expertise in BW/4HANA modeling and Eclipse.
  • Authored comprehensive technical documentation and RICEFW objects, ensuring clarity and alignment with business requirements.
  • Conducted training sessions for internal teams on Datasphere and BW Bridge, fostering knowledge transfer and self-sufficiency.
Sai Revuri Venkata

Josef Kroiss

Architect / Senior Consultant

Limeshain

Last position:

Architect / Senior Consultant at vonRoll

  • Architecture and design of the target landscape: SAP HANA sizing & SAP sizing
  • Transition of the SAP landscapes in several waves: SAP ERP HR (2) - SAP ERP, SAP S/4 and legacy 4.6D systems
  • S/4 release upgrade to 2023 and ongoing SPS
  • Design of an ADS solution
  • Technical project lead
Josef Kroiss

Yunus Basardal

Subproject Manager CVI/BP, Consulting and Implementation of Business Partner Processes and Readiness Check

Frankfurt

Last position:

Subproject Manager CVI/BP, Consulting and Implementation of Business Partner Processes and Readiness Check at Emons Group

  • Responsibility for executing the CVI at Emons Group, including the target design and implementation of the new business partner processes
  • Focused on migrating vendor and customer master data to business partners, as well as leading and coordinating the functional and technical master data cleansing
  • Used SAP ERP ECC, SAP Query Reporting, LSMW, SAP Readiness Check, and SAP authorizations
Yunus Basardal

Uwe Kaltenbrunner

SAP CO Senior Solution Architect & Craftsman

Löffingen

Last position:

SAP CO Senior Solution Architect & Craftsman at ODW

  • SAP S4/HANA CO Optimization, brownfield
  • SAP CO Senior Solution Architect & craftsman: Cost Centers and Assessment Cycles, Product Costing in discrete industry, overhead absorption costing, CO-PA (Profit Analysis)
  • Experience with automotive supplier, tier #2, discrete industry, >3.000 employees, 150 m€ net sales, 6 company codes, 1 controlling area
  • SAP CO Solution Architect, end-to-end (E2E) concept & implementation Cost Center costing and plan price calculation (rates/hour), overhead absorption costing, product costing: valuation variant, costing sheets, cost elements structure
  • SAP CO-CC: everlasting cost center concept for the ODW group, for 6 company codes, cost center hierarchy, cost center groups
  • SAP CO-PC: hourly rates and overhead surcharges under German GAAP
  • SAP CO-PA(PC/CC process sketch blueprint, End-2-End (E2E), written concept comprising 56 pages, implementation blueprint
  • Implementation Status: cost center released in P-system, replacement of old cost center structure by 100%
Uwe Kaltenbrunner

Aleksander Bjelovic

Freelance Principal Solution Architect – Production Digitization with SAP and AI

Fellbach

Last position:

SAP S/4HANA Solution Architect Logistics at Teckentrup GmbH & Co.KG

Main project lead and consultant for the ePPDS rollout

  • Role: Lead consultant for the ePPDS rollout, main project lead for the ePPDS rollout
  • Project content: 4) Carried out the pre-project for selecting the detailed planning tool 5) Project planning and team staffing for the ePPDS rollout 6) Solution architect for the digital process landscape around digital production

Technologies: Consulting, project management, customizing

Aleksander Bjelovic

Gopal Khandelwal

SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect

Berlin

Last position:

SAP ABAP & Cloud Architect at parasus GmbH

  • Concept and re-implementation of customer application over cloud and make the source code cloud ready
  • Re-designing and putting a new architecture to overcome all the Team Scale findings and push ABAP code to ABAP cloud
  • Converted the existing custom application code to ABAP cloud code and used ABAP Clean code guidelines
  • Create a dynamic framework to call old vs new implementation from a Table maintenance to validate both implementations
  • Utilized Key User Extensibility to seamlessly integrate multiple custom fields into a standard Fiori application, enhancing both the front-end and back-end GUI
Gopal Khandelwal

Benjamin Schweizer

Senior SAP BI Planning Solution Architect

Metzingen

Last position:

Senior SAP BI Planning Solution Architect at Freelancer

Benjamin Schweizer

Gazi Barut

Senior IT Architect, SAP, SAP BTP Architect, CPI Senior Consultant and Architect

Köln

Last position:

Senior IT Architect, SAP, SAP BTP Architect, CPI Senior Consultant and Architect at Uniper Corporate IT

  • Developing and implementing IT architectures for business-critical applications, BCM/ITSCM, SAP, BTP and S/4HANA, Azure, interfaces and IT infrastructure according to Uniper security guidelines and compliance policies

  • IT cloud infrastructure management: Requirements management and SLA definition for critical SAP and non-SAP applications and infrastructures based on the Key Production Environment algorithm; creating a conceptual target architecture; creating agile project plans for migration; risk management and vulnerability analysis; developing training content and e-learnings; establishing and optimizing risk management processes; creating action catalogs, architectures and ITSCM/emergency plans; identifying and managing internal and external partners

  • Developing BCM/ITSCM concepts and IT infrastructure architectures for business-critical applications according to Azure Cloud, SAP BTP and Uniper governance frameworks; documenting and implementing ITSCM/emergency plans in line with disaster recovery patterns; creating training materials and coordinating training sessions; testing, simulating and optimizing BCM/ITSCM plans and IT architectures; ongoing training of management and staff on IT architectures, operating models, SAP BTP as well as BCM and emergency plans

  • Technical lead of the SAP services team: Managing and coordinating external vendors, service owners and application managers; developing and implementing ITSM processes (incident, problem, change, SLM, IT security, provider management, ITSCM, asset and configuration management); training internal and external service providers and service managers; optimizing IT service contracts and OLAs; updating the service catalog; communicating and escalating issues; defining responsibilities and monitoring SLA criteria; conducting root cause analysis; partly acting as release manager for SAP ERP releases

  • Migration: Requirements management, budget and financial planning; risk management; defining and implementing transformation and migration plans; weekly reporting to Uniper vice presidents and senior management; maintaining project plans and backlogs in Jira and Azure DevOps; managing up to 50 internal and external stakeholders; workshops and meetings; quality assurance: defining quality gateways and monitoring

  • Test management: Creating and documenting test plans; evaluating test risks; identifying stakeholders for test plans; documenting test scenarios; defining error categories and quality gateways; coordinating and executing tests

Gazi Barut

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SAP Architects statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

20 years

Position duration

2.4 years

Positions per freelancer

17

Top business areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Finance

Top industries

Information Technology, Manufacturing, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Operations

Bachelor's degree or higher

100%

Master's degree or higher

83%

Doctorate

8%

Certifications per freelancer

3

Most common languages

English, German, Italian

Speak two or more languages

100%

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A SAP Architect defines the solution structure behind an SAP program. That usually includes landscape design, integration patterns, security boundaries, and the rules for custom development and extensions. In delivery, the person also helps teams make consistent technical decisions.

Companies should look for broad SAP platform knowledge, not just module experience. Strong candidates understand S/4HANA, Fiori, interfaces, master data, authorizations, and how business processes map into the system. For complex programs, they should also be able to work across cloud and hybrid setups.

Often the terms overlap, but the scope can differ. An SAP solution architect may focus more on one program or solution stream, while an enterprise architect looks at the full SAP landscape and its fit with the wider IT setup. In hiring, the title matters less than the actual scope they have led.

Freelance support makes sense when the work is tied to a program with a clear start and end, such as a migration, rollout, carve-out, or major integration change. It also helps when senior guidance is needed quickly and internal teams are already busy. A freelancer can bring structure without adding a long-term headcount commitment.

They are often brought into S/4HANA transformations, system consolidations, interface redesigns, and governance work around custom code or security. They also help with blueprinting for new business units, mergers, and global template rollouts. In many cases, they act as the technical anchor between business owners and delivery teams.

Both can work well. Remote collaboration is effective for design reviews, documentation, and steering meetings, while on-site time helps in workshops, stakeholder alignment, and architecture decisions that need fast discussion. In Germany, many clients prefer a mix depending on the phase of the project.

Look for clear thinking, not only tool knowledge. A strong SAP Architect can explain why a design choice fits the business, show past ownership in similar projects, and identify risks before they become delays. Good signs are structured documentation, practical trade-offs, and confident communication with both business and technical teams.

Many projects in Germany involve structured governance, formal documentation, and close coordination with IT and business stakeholders. English is often enough in international teams, but German can be important for workshops or local operations teams. Freelancers should be ready to adapt to a mix of remote work and occasional on-site sessions.

The average hourly rate for SAP Architects in Germany is 129 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,035 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as SAP Architects in Germany, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 83% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as SAP Architects in Germany have 20 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as SAP Architects in Germany are English (100%), German (93%), and Italian (13%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as SAP Architects in Germany are Information Technology (87%), Manufacturing (73%), and Professional Services (67%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as SAP Architects in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (93%), and Finance (67%).

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