Principal Solution Architect – SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Chevron is accepting online applications for the position Principal Solution Architect – SAP S/4HANA Transformation through May 27th 2026 at 11:59 p.m. (Central Time).   

Overview:  

Lead end-to-end solution architecture and design across the SAP S/4HANA Transformation, with a primary focus on upstream business processes and solutions. Own overall solution integrity across upstream releases, value streams, and functional domains, ensuring architectural coherence across SAP S/4HANA and the broader ecosystem. 

The Chevron ERP Transformation program is a SAP S/4HANA multi-year global implementation. The program will deliver a standardized ERP enabling continuous innovation for the enterprise. It will reduce customization, fulfill software upgrades timely to deliver new business innovations, and lower the total cost of ownership. ​ 

Responsibilities for this position may include but are not limited to: 

• Lead end-to-end upstream solution design and ensure overall solution integrity across releases, value streams, and functional domains. 

• Provide architecture governance and assurance by guiding architecture reviews and design escalations, including extension decision support (e.g., yellow/red decisions). 

• Ensure adherence to internal architecture policies and standards. 

• Own decisions on architectural patterns, extension placement, and technical debt trade-offs. 

• Partner with Product Management, Program Management, and Business to ensure designs are aligned to business outcomes. 

• Influence release sequencing, scope prioritization and trade-offs, and solution simplification to reduce cost and delivery risk. 

• Provide point of view on solution implications, risks, and options to program leadership. 

• Provide technical direction and accountability across system integrator (SI) and vendor architects, ensuring external designs align with Chevron standards and ERP Transformation Program design strategy. 

• Act as design authority when vendor recommendations conflict with or diverge from the target architecture. 

Required Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of experience in ERP/SAP solution architecture and end-to-end design for large, complex transformation programs (including multi-release delivery). 

• Proven experience delivering SAP S/4HANA solution architecture (and/or SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation), including fit-to-standard, cross-module integration, and clean-core/extension strategy decisions. 

• Demonstrated expertise in Upstream Oil & Gas business processes and end-to-end scenarios, and the ability to translate business outcomes into coherent ERP solution designs. 

• Strong experience with architecture governance and assurance, including leading design reviews, driving resolution of design escalations, and enforcing architecture standards and guardrails across domains. 

• Ability to make and defend architecture decisions related to patterns, extension placement, and technical debt trade-offs, balancing business value, delivery risk, and total cost of ownership. 

• Experience designing and assuring complex enterprise ecosystems across SAP and non-SAP platforms, including integration patterns, data flows, and the broader application landscape. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence scope, sequencing, and simplification decisions to reduce cost and delivery risk, and to communicate solution implications, options, and risks to senior leaders. 

• Proven experience providing technical direction to system integrators and vendors, including accountability for solution quality and alignment to enterprise architecture standards and program design strategy. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent work experience. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Hands-on functional and solution architecture experience in SAP S/4HANA Asset Management/EAM (e.g., maintenance planning, work execution, reliability, and performance reporting) in an asset-intensive environment. 

• Experience with upstream-focused SAP and adjacent solutions (e.g., integration to field/operations systems, production operations, and materials/supply processes supporting upstream execution). 

• Demonstrated experience establishing or operating “clean core” practices, including extension governance and the use of SAP BTP and standard APIs/integration patterns. 

• Experience with enterprise integration platforms and patterns (e.g., event-based integration, API management, middleware) and designing resilient integrations between SAP and non-SAP systems. 

• Experience with ERP data architecture concepts including master data governance, data quality, and analytics/reporting implications of solution design decisions. 

• Strong program leadership skills working with multiple stakeholders (Business, Product, IT, and vendors), including influencing without authority and driving alignment across teams. 

• Experience with solution options analysis and trade-off facilitation (scope, sequencing, risk, cost, and operability) and communicating recommendations clearly to executive leadership. 

• SAP certification(s) and/or architecture certifications (e.g., SAP Certified Application/Technology Associate, TOGAF) preferred. 

Relocation Options: 

Relocation will not considered. 

International Considerations: 

Expatriate assignments will not considered. 

Chevron regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position.