*Tech Architecture Sr Manager*

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at . Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled SAP Project Manager / Application Architect to lead the end-to-end delivery and technical architecture of complex SAP transformation programs. In this role, you will be responsible for managing project delivery while defining scalable, secure, and maintainable application solutions across SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, application development, and integration landscapes. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, solution architects, functional consultants, developers, integration teams, product owners, SAP, and third-party vendors to deliver high-quality solutions across design, build, testing, deployment, and Hypercare within a fast-paced delivery environment. Roles & Responsibilities: SAP Project Manager • Lead end-to-end delivery of SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, integration, upgrade, migration, and application-development projects. • Develop and manage project plans, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and delivery commitments. • Coordinate activities across business, functional, development, integration, infrastructure, testing, and vendor teams. • Manage onshore, offshore, contractor, and third-party resources to achieve agreed scope, quality, and timelines. • Facilitate governance meetings and provide clear project status, risk, issue, and dependency updates to senior stakeholders. • Drive issue resolution, recovery planning, release readiness, go-live, and Hypercare activities. SAP Application Architect • Define and govern SAP application architecture across SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP landscapes. • Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solution designs and implementation approaches. • Lead architecture and technical-design workshops with client stakeholders, SAP teams, and external vendors. • Ensure solutions align with SAP clean-core principles, extensibility guidance, security requirements, and enterprise architecture standards. • Review solution designs, technical specifications, development estimates, integration patterns, and code quality. • Identify opportunities to reduce customisation and adopt standard, side-by-side, or cloud-based extension approaches. Technical Delivery & Team Leadership • Provide technical leadership across SAP ABAP, ABAP on HANA, ABAP Cloud, CDS Views, AMDP, OData, RAP, Fiori Elements, and SAP BTP application development. • Guide development and integration teams on application design, custom extensions, interfaces, performance, and development standards. • Oversee technical delivery, task allocation, resource planning, effort estimation, design reviews, and quality assurance. • Provide direction and hands-on support for complex, critical, or technically challenging requirements. • Mentor technical leads and developers and build capability across distributed delivery teams. Stakeholder & Vendor Management • Act as the primary bridge between business requirements, project delivery, and SAP technical architecture. • Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, program leadership, SAP, partners, and third-party vendors. • Communicate complex technical concepts, architecture decisions, delivery risks, and options clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Manage cross-team dependencies, expectations, design decisions, and delivery commitments. Qualifications: • Proven experience leading enterprise SAP implementation, transformation, integration, upgrade, or migration programs. • Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA application architecture, technical delivery, and development governance. • Hands-on experience with SAP BTP and modern SAP extensibility and integration approaches. • Technical expertise in one or more of the following: ABAP, ABAP on HANA, ABAP Cloud, CDS, AMDP, OData, RAP, Fiori Elements, or SAP BTP development. • Experience managing large, geographically distributed, multidisciplinary delivery teams. • Strong project management skills covering planning, estimation, resourcing, risk management, issue resolution, governance, testing, deployment, and Hypercare. • Excellent stakeholder-management, client-facing, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills. • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline. • SAP architecture, development, SAP Activate, SAP BTP, cloud, or project-management certifications are an added advantage. #LI-GM #LI_GM Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day. 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We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000 . Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement