SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance Solution Architect (Remote + Travel)
<p><strong>Role: SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance Solution Architect (Remote with Travel)</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Must Have Technical/Functional Skills</p><ul><li> 10+ years of SAP experience with deep expertise in international trade compliance and SAP Global Trade Services (SAP GTS).</li><li> Minimum two end-to-end SAP GTS implementations, including solution architecture ownership and integration with SAP S/4HANA.</li><li> Expertise in sanctioned party list screening, embargo checks, import/export legal control, license determination, and document blocking and release.</li><li> Strong experience with customs management for imports and exports, customs declarations, transit, special customs procedures, duty calculation, and customs authority communication.</li><li> Experience with product classification including commodity codes, tariff numbers, export control classifications, license-relevance data, and country-specific attributes.</li><li> Strong knowledge of preference processing, free trade agreements, rules of origin, supplier declarations, and preference determination.</li><li> Experience integrating SAP S/4HANA sales, purchasing, delivery, billing, material, business partner, transportation, warehouse, and finance data with SAP GTS.</li><li> Knowledge of ITAR, EAR, OFAC, BIS, EU dual-use controls, denied-party screening, and other global trade regulations relevant to a multinational manufacturer.</li><li> Experience with screening-list and regulatory-content providers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, EDI, customs connections, and government interfaces.</li><li> Experience with SAP Fiori, workflows, roles and authorizations, audit trails, APIs/interfaces, SAP AIF, output, analytics, and SAP BTP integration patterns.</li><li> Experience with master-data migration, transactional migration, reconciliation, testing, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and legacy GTS transition or upgrade.</li><li> Strong knowledge of SAP Activate, global template governance, clean-core principles, and complex global manufacturing transformation programs.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Roles & Responsibilities</p><ul><li> Own the end-to-end SAP S/4HANA Trade Compliance and SAP GTS solution architecture for the program, aligned with enterprise architecture and the global process template.</li><li> Lead fit-to-standard workshops with Global Trade, Legal, Export Compliance, Customs, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, Finance, Security, and IT stakeholders.</li><li> Define the target architecture for sanctioned party screening, embargo checking, import/export control, license management, customs management, and trade preference processing.</li><li> Design integration between SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS for business partners, products, sales orders, purchase orders, deliveries, billing, customs, transportation, and financial processes.</li><li> Define screening rules, matching thresholds, periodic rescreening, blocked-document worklists, release controls, audit trails, and escalation workflows.</li><li> Design product classification governance for commodity codes, tariff numbers, export control classifications, license relevance, and regulatory attributes.</li><li> Define import and export license determination, quantity and value depreciation, validity controls, exception handling, and compliance evidence requirements.</li><li> Design customs declaration, customs warehousing, foreign trade zone, transit, broker, authority-message, duty, and special-procedure processes as applicable.</li><li> Define preference and origin processes, including agreements, bills of material, rules of origin, long-term supplier declarations, and preference statements.</li><li> Assess legacy foreign-trade and GTS capabilities, define transition architecture, and lead master and transactional data migration and reconciliation.</li><li> Guide WRICEF, interfaces, forms, workflows, security, analytics, Fiori, AIF, customs connections, and BTP designs while protecting clean-core objectives.</li><li> Partner with SAP, legal and compliance teams, customs brokers, content providers, and vendors to resolve regulatory, product, and integration dependencies.</li><li> Lead architecture reviews, end-to-end testing, defect resolution, mock cutovers, deployment readiness, go-live, and hypercare.</li><li> Proactively identify regulatory and delivery risks, drive decisions, mentor teams, and communicate architecture recommendations to Helix leadership.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>
