Associate Director, Solution Architect – Global Sourcing & Procurement

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**Job Description** **Associate Director, Solution Architect – Global Sourcing & Procurement** **The Opportunity** - Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. - Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. - Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats. Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy. A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers. **Role Overview** The Senior Solution Architect (R4) is a global architecture leader and design authority responsible for defining, governing, and evolving end to end solutions across Procurement, Sourcing, Supplier Management, and Intelligent Spend domains. This role spans SAP and non-SAP platforms, advanced AI driven and agentic solutions, and enterprise integrations, shaping technology strategy, roadmaps, and architectural standards for global adoption. Operating with significant autonomy, the role influences platform strategy, investment priorities, and innovation adoption, while enabling scalable, secure, and intelligent business outcomes. **What Will You Do In This Role** **Enterprise Solution Architecture & Design Authority (Scope)** - Serve as the primary design authority for global sourcing, Procurement and Supplier Management solutions, accountable for architectural decisions across programs and releases. - Define and govern enterprise architecture standards, principles, and patterns, ensuring consistency across regions, products, and delivery teams. - Lead architecture reviews and approve designs covering process, integration, data, security, and deployment layers. - Own architectural trade‑off decisions balancing business value, technical sustainability, risk, and cost. **SAP Intelligent Spend Management – Global Design Leadership** - Lead solution architecture across SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP MDG and non-SAP Solution capabilities at enterprise scale. - Architect end‑to‑end solutions for Source‑to‑Contract, Procure‑to‑Pay, Supplier Lifecycle & Risk Management, Contingent Workforce, and Master Data. - Guide global implementations and transformations, ensuring adherence to SAP best practices and enterprise governance. - Influence SAP platform adoption and roadmap alignment in partnership with Enterprise Architecture and Product teams. - Lead architecture for AI‑enabled and agentic solutions across Sourcing and Procurement domains, partner with Data, AI, and Digital teams to embed responsible AI capabilities into sourcing, procurement, and supplier workflows. **Cross‑Functional & Global Collaboration** - Act as a senior architecture partner to Business Process Owners, Product Managers, Engineering Leads, Integration Architects, Security, and Data teams. - Drive architectural alignment across globally distributed teams and vendors, particularly within the Hyderabad delivery ecosystem. - Influence senior stakeholders through clear communication, architectural storytelling, and data‑driven recommendations. **Architecture Artifacts, Workshops & Governance** - Lead and facilitate executive‑level and working‑level workshops for requirements, solution design, and architecture validation. - Produce and govern architecture artifacts including architecture flows, system context diagrams, integration views, and deployment models using Visio and enterprise architecture tools. - Ensure architecture documentation is complete, current, and consumable across delivery and operations teams. **Technology Strategy & Roadmaps (Accountability)** - Define and contribute to multi‑year technology strategies and capability roadmaps for Procurement and Supplier Management platforms. - Identify opportunities to simplify landscapes, reduce technical debt, modernize integrations, and improve scalability and resilience. - Evaluate emerging technologies and SAP roadmap items, translating them into actionable architectural direction. **Leadership, Mentorship & Organizational Impact** - Mentor and guide Junior Solution Architects, Technical Leads, and software engineers, raising overall architecture maturity within HTC. - Establish architecture best practices and reusable patterns to accelerate delivery and improve quality. - Act as a role model for collaboration, accountability, and architectural excellence within global delivery teams. **Required Experience** **What should you have** - 15+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, or Large‑Scale Global IT Delivery. - Demonstrated success as a senior design authority on complex, multi‑region programs. - Deep, hands‑on architecture experience with SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, and SAP MDG. - Strong background in