Senior Principal IT Architect - SAP Business AI Platform, S/4 HANA, and ABAP

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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 25 Sep 2026 Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact. A Day in the LifeAt Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We're working onsite 4 days a week as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary. In your role, you may work from the following Medtronic sites: • Mounds View, Minnesota • Boston, Massachusetts As the Senior IT Principal Architect for Medtronic’s SAP Business AI Platform, you will lead the enterprise SAP architecture vision across S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, integration, APIs, events, data, and automation. This role combines strategic leadership and hands-on delivery, partnering with IT, business, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data, Risk, and Compliance to define technology strategy, governance, standards, roadmaps, and investment priorities that modernize the enterprise and enable AI-driven transformation. It requires deep expertise in SAP architecture, enterprise integration, API management, event-driven design, cloud integration, data integration, and modern application architecture. The ideal resource for this role should be a seasoned SAP professional with a proven track record in navigating both ECC and S/4 HANA landscapes. Your expertise should extend to platform capabilities, architecture, project leadership, security, and compliance to ensure effective and optimal utilization of SAP systems to drive business success. We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications to achieve long-term sustainable impact. Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world. Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES SAP STRATEGY & ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE Define and own the enterprise SAP and integration technology strategy and architecture vision in alignment with business strategy and enterprise architecture principles. Set guiding principles, best practices and standards, contribute to technology and application selection with SAP Enterprise Architecture organization Develop and maintain a 3–5 year technology roadmap covering S/4HANA, SAP Business AI, SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud, Application and B2B Integration, APIs, event-driven architecture, data, analytics, automation, and emerging technologies. Define target-state architecture and transition roadmaps for SAP and enterprise application modernization. Lead technical remediation efforts during the upgrade of ECC to S/4HANA, enable transformational capabilities to be enabled, promote clean-core adoption, implement cloud strategy, integration modernization, and SAP platform rationalization. Establish enterprise architecture principles that enable interoperability between SAP, non-SAP, SaaS, cloud, legacy, and emerging technology platforms. Evaluate emerging SAP and integration technologies and determine their applicability to the enterprise. SAP BUSINESS AI AND INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE Establish the architecture strategy for SAP Business AI and AI-enabled business processes using SAP Joule and other augmenting AI platforms and technologies Define integration patterns for connecting AI capabilities with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, enterprise applications, data platforms, and external AI services. Establish secure and governed patterns for exposing enterprise data and business processes to AI applications and agents. Define architecture standards for AI-enabled APIs, events, workflows, agents, and intelligent automation. Ensure AI solutions address security, privacy, data governance, model risk, regulatory requirements, explainability, and responsible AI principles. S/4 HANA AND SAP PLATFORM MODERNIZATION Provide architecture leadership for SAP S/4HANA transformation and modernization initiatives. Define principles for SAP clean-core architecture, extensibility, custom-code remediation, APIs, integration, and upgrade-safe architectures. Determine appropriate placement of functionality across S/4HANA, SAP BTP, enterprise platforms, and external applications. Drive modernization of legacy ABAP customizations toward ABAP Cloud, released APIs, side-by-side extensions, and event-driven architectures. Establish standards for SAP-to-SAP and SAP-to-non-SAP integration. ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE Own and define the enterprise integration architecture strategy and roadmap for SAP and non-SAP ecosystems. Establish integration principles, reference architectures, technology standards, design patterns, and governance processes. Design and govern scalable integration architectures supporting real-time, near-real-time, batch, synchronous, asynchronous, API-led, event-driven, and file-based integration. Define the strategic use of SAP Integration Suite, API Management, Cloud Integration, Event Mesh, enterprise service buses, messaging platforms, and integration middleware. Establish enterprise standards for API-first and event-driven architecture. Define API lifecycle management standards including API design, security, versioning, discoverability, reuse, monitoring, and retirement. Establish enterprise event standards covering event modeling, event contracts, schemas, publishing, subscription, resiliency, and governance. Drive modernization from point-to-point and tightly coupled integrations toward loosely coupled, reusable, API-led and event-driven architectures. Define integration patterns for connecting S/4HANA with SaaS applications, legacy systems, data platforms, cloud services, partner ecosystems, and external applications. Establish integration security standards covering authentication, authorization, certificates, encryption, secrets management, identity propagation, and secure API access. Govern integration reliability, performance, scalability, observability, error handling, retry mechanisms, resiliency, and disaster recovery. Establish enterprise standards for integration monitoring, operational support, alerting, logging, tracing, and end-to-end transaction visibility. Reduce integration complexity and technical debt through integration rationalization, platform consolidation, reusable services, and common integration patterns. Provide archit