SAP Application Architect (Paris, Lille or Lyon)

Lead Dev ABAP / Fiori: what if your next step were Architecture?

You have been developing for several years in ABAP, Fiori/UI5 or on SAP BTP. You are already the technical reference on your projects: you carry out code reviews, you coach developers, you make the technical decisions. You now want to gain height: design the solution rather than only build it, and defend your choices to the client from the pre-sales stage.

This role is made for you. You do not leave the technical side, you take its lead. At delaware, the SAP Application Architect is a lead developer who broadens their scope, along three axes:

• Technical leadership: you carry the technical vision of the project and support the development teams, both locally and in our service centre (GDC).

• Architecture: you design SAP landscapes, integrations and the associated platforms, notably SAP BTP.

• Pre-sales (AVV): you assess feasibility, you estimate costs, you write the technical sections of tenders and you defend them in presentations.

🚀 Why delaware?

• SAP Platinum Partner since 2023, more than 75 S/4HANA migration projects delivered worldwide, with the ambition of exceeding 100.

• Pioneers: first to deploy S/4HANA Public Cloud in France (2018), early adopters of RISE with SAP in Europe (2021).

• Winners of the SAP Pinnacle Awards 2024 & 2025 for the Business Technology Platform (BTP): a real playground for technical profiles.

• Major corporate clients in industry, retail, food processing, automotive, luxury, aerospace, life sciences…

🤝 Your role

You join the Dev&Ops delivery hub, on the technical ERP building block, that is to say the team that carries technical development and integration. You are the technical reference of the hub. You get involved upstream (scoping, design), then support your teams during implementation and deployment.

🎯 Your missions

Technical leadership and support of the development teams

• Carry the technical vision of the project and arbitrate structuring choices

• Lead and support the delivery teams (ABAP, Fiori, BTP, integration developers), locally and at GDC

• Enforce development and architecture standards and best practices

• Validate the solution before each major milestone and ensure the quality delivered

• Help resolve complex technical problems

Architecture

• Define the architecture of SAP landscapes and the deployment model (on-premise, cloud or hybrid)

• Design integration and middleware architectures between SAP and the rest of the IS (APIs, interfaces, data exchanges)

• Design the architectures of extensions and associated platforms, notably SAP BTP

• Define the rules for performance, security, high availability and business continuity

Pre-sales (AVV) and scoping

• Support the pre-sales expertise unit: technical feasibility and workload estimation

• Write the technical sections of tender responses and defend your architecture choices in presentations

• Scope the target architecture with the client: constraints, dependencies, migration path

Governance and watch

• Present architectures to CIOs, document decisions and take part in technical and steering committees, together with the functional architect

• Monitor the market, capitalise on best practices and evolve the hub's standards

👤 Your profile

Your background

• Bac+5 (engineering school or master's degree in computer science / information systems)

• At least 7 to 10 years in an SAP environment, ideally with a path from ABAP / Fiori developer to lead developer or technical reference, and some first exposure to architecture topics

• Experience of end-to-end implementation projects, preferably S/4HANA, ideally internationally or in multi-system contexts

• Experience in an IT services company (ESN), a consultancy or with an end client, in a complex environment

Your technical foundation

• SAP development: ABAP (object-oriented, CDS, RAP…), Fiori / SAPUI5, SAP BTP extensions

• Integration: middleware, APIs, OData, data exchange mechanisms, design of secure and high-performance exchanges

• SAP architecture: landscapes, technical components, user interfaces

• Infrastructure basics: on-premise, cloud or hybrid, sizing, monitoring

• Performance, security and industrialisation: optimisation, security standards, deployment automation

Your qualities

• Technical leadership and teaching skills: you can speak as easily to developers as to decision-makers

• Consulting posture: you argue your case, challenge the request and spot hidden risks

• A view of transformation paths (greenfield, brownfield, version upgrades)

• Ability to synthesise, comfort speaking in public, resilience in critical phases

• Fluent French and professional English (B2+/C1)

A plus: SAP S/4HANA Technology certifications, SAP Enterprise Architect (P_SAPEA), SAP LeanIX (C_LIXEA) or TOGAF. This is not a prerequisite: if you have the right lead developer background, apply!

🎁 What we offer

• A real career step for a developer profile: the role is the anchor point of the hub's expertise track, with prospects towards Hub / Vertical Leader Dev&Ops, and the Boost programme (EDHEC partnership)

• The most recent SAP technologies and supported certifications, with a qualitative bonus that recognises your contribution

• Innovation within reach: Taskforce, prototyping at DEL20 (client co-innovation), Teamstarter

• AI in everyday work: Copilot and Claude integrated into the Microsoft suite

• A human-sized organisation: 3 hierarchical levels maximum, a local Team Leader, hybrid remote working, team events by agency

• A concrete CSR commitment: People, Planet, Profit

👉 A look at who we are?

Testimonials from #peopleofdelaware
https://www.delaware.pro/fr-fr/careers/blog

Our projects and client references
https://www.delaware.pro/fr-fr/stories