Invoice-to-Pay Accounts Payable Senior Solution Architect

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The Position

ERP Accounts Payable Senior Solution Architect

Please note that this position can be based either in Poland (Warsaw or Poznan) or Spain (Madrid). Information regarding Spanish compensation elements will be shared during the phone screening process.

The Accounts Payables ERP Solution Architect focuses on designing business-driven, standards-based, and future-ready solutions within the Accounts Payables context. In this role, you will design solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards while managing non-functional requirements (NFR) and evolving the architecture throughout the product life cycle. By solving complex technical problems, leading others through difficult challenges, defining reference architectures, and aligning with the broader architecture community for governance, you will ensure robust ERP implementations that deliver enhanced value to the organization. You will maintain the vision and roadmap for multiple solutions, provide technical oversight to product teams, and evaluate new technologies to continuously improve existing solutions and manage technical debt.

Description of the area

Our landscape in the Accounts Payables area integrates SAP ECC and S/4HANA with diverse procurement platforms to support the Invoice-to-Pay lifecycle. We ensure seamless processing from invoice receipt and compliant financial approval workflows through to the successful delivery of payment instructions to the Treasury solution.

You will play a key role in navigating the transition from legacy environments to modern ERP standards, ensuring integration resilience and scalability as we re-engineer our global ERP landscape through the ASPIRE program.

You will serve as the critical interface for translating business requirements into technical/ IT  language. Your primary mission is to deeply explore and define the functional "why" behind business requests, ensuring that every technological solution is built upon a foundation of clearly mapped processes and validated organizational needs.

The Opportunity

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Designs solutions that meet product requirements, business priorities, and enterprise standards within Accounts Payables solution context. Manages Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and fit requirements. Documents and evolves the architecture throughout the product life cycle and aligns with the architecture community for governance. Applies frameworks in a Complex or Multiple Solution or Product Context.

• Accountability/Problem Solving: Solves and leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions. Maintains the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for the Accounts Payable area. Assesses and consults on the impacts and dependencies of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and the application landscape. Creates Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Integration pathways for the product. Defines and drives reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions, ensuring Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) are recorded and published for multiple solutions or the product. Drives external technology trends and assesses feasibility, including vendor assessments.

• Stakeholder Management: Communicates difficult concepts clearly and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Drives information sharing across the complete product.

• Impact/Strategy: Develops and maintains the product's technology roadmap. Provides technical oversight, guidance, and consultation on specific technologies for product teams. Improves existing solutions, manages technical debt, and researches, evaluates, pilots, and drives the adoption of new technologies. Identifies opportunities to enhance value and business processes within a Complex or Multiple Solution or Product Context.

• Complexity / (Product Size): Operates primarily within the Accounts Payable product scope, managing the architectural complexities of specific ERP applications or components. In addition provides expertise and technical know-how to the Product area utilising the Accounts Payable process and technology.

• Business / Technical ability: Applies in-depth and expert-level knowledge in multiple technology areas. Proactively contributes to Architecture Practices development and mentoring.

• Compliance: Ensure all technical designs and documentation comply with GxP, Data Privacy (GDPR), ICFR (Internal Control over Financial Reporting) and Roche-specific security standards, facilitating smooth internal and external audits.

Who you are:

Education / Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, IT, Finance or a related field.

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience working as Solution Architect with strong analytical and hands-on problem solving skills. 

• 2+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated healthcare technology industry focusing on stakeholder management & product development & delivery.

• Demonstrated experience designing business-driven, standards-based, future-ready solutions within a complex or multiple solution/product context.

• Experience maintaining the vision, roadmap, and current landscape for multiple solutions, and assessing the impacts of initiatives on capabilities, risk, and application landscapes.

• Proven track record of actively shaping architecture practices—including maintaining solution roadmaps, assessing technology trends, and leading vendor evaluations—while mentoring and developing junior team members.

• Act as a strategic translator, performing deep-dive business analysis to elicit requirements and ensure technical designs optimize business processes and end-user experiences.

Technical Skills

• General and in-depth functional knowledge of SAP ECC and S/4HANA (FI/CO and MM), complemented by deep technical and functional knowledge of OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (Otext-VIM). Advanced ABAP code expertise is required to analyze custom logic, review BAdIs/User Exits, and perform deep-system debugging and ensure high-quality code delivery from internal and external partners.

• Experience in designing scalable, high-volume financial processing solutions in a global, multi-entity environment.

• Strong understanding of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Intelligent Capture technologies for automated data extraction and validation.

• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, architecture, design &  implementation, API-Led connectivity, Middleware (e.g Mulesoft) for connecting AP related solutions and ERP Systems.

• Expertise in managing Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), defining fitness functions, and establishing reference architectures and patterns.

• Strong skills in handling data formats (JSON, XML, CSV, EDI Standards), data mapping, transformation, and ETL processes across Accounts Payable systems.

• Ability to accurately record and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

• Proficiency in creating Conceptual & Logical Data Models, Taxonomies, Ontologies, and Integration pathways for products.

• Ability to define and drive reference architectures, patterns, NFRs, and fitness functions.

• Strong capability to drive external technology trends and assess feasibility for multiple solutions, including conducting vendor assessments.

What you get:

• Salary range: 19 075 - 35 425 PLN gross based on the employment contract.

• Annual bonus payment based on your performance.

• Dedicated training budget (training, certifications, conferences, diversified career paths etc.).

• Recharge Fridays (2 Fridays off per quarter available).

• Take time Program (up to 3 months of leave to use for any purpose).

• Vacation subsidy available.

• Flex Location (possibility to perform our work from different places in the world for a certain period of time).

• Take Time for Charity (additional paid leave of maximum 2 weeks to engage in the charity action of your choice).

• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.

• Stock share purchase additions.

• Yearly sales of company laptops and cars and many more!

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Compensation & Benefits

The expected salary range for this position, based on the primary location of Warsaw Grafit is 228,900.00 PLN - 425,100.00 PLN. Final compensation will be determined by a number of factors, including your skills, experience, qualifications, and location. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus with a target of 20% subject to both individual and company performance.

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