Global Snr Solution Architect Talent at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Sasol is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Solution Architect Travel (Concur) to join our team, focusing on the SAP Concur Travel and Expense management system. This is an internal, permanent position for a seasoned professional to lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of our Concur solutions. You'll be the vital link between our business and our IT team, ensuring our Concur platform effectively supports and streamlines our travel and expense processes. Your expertise will be crucial in translating business requirements into scalable and robust technical designs, leading solution delivery, and ensuring our systems are aligned with Sasol's business strategy and technology standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Drive best practices within the organisation in relation to the strategic integration of a decision to support database and the related software programs used to collect, cleanse, transform, and store data from a variety of operational and external sources.
• Train and coach relevant stakeholder to utilise historical, analytical, and business intelligence requirements as well as data acquisition tools and techniques.
• Design and implement the business intelligence portfolio and enterprise data warehouse.
• Devise and drive the principles, processes, and policies pertaining to an enterprise data model to guarantee consistency of decision support activities across the organisation.
• Define and maintain the data warehouse and business intelligence architecture in order to meet the organisations' needs. Perform process audit, control, restart, and scheduling.
• Utilise techniques such as classification, regression, market basket, and clustering to build and examine complex data models.
• Review significant models and algorithms used for anomaly detection.
• Examine the deployment options, deploy the data models, and test results.
• Maintain and adapt enterprise data schema.
• Analyse the metadata and develop database structures.
• Appraise current data problems and devise significant data solutions using standard development tools.
• Evaluate existing procedures and standards to establish new ones that better meet the business needs.
• Lead various value adding architectural projects to improve the business value of data through data analysis.
• Conduct continuous ETL impact analysis and provide guidance in tuning and optimisation of ETL jobs.
• Secure data conformance and data lineage and provide trainings for relevant stakeholders on data orchestration.
• Support teams that are facing challenges with extracting, transforming, or loading data.
• Recommend to relevant stakeholders data architecture to meet set requirements of relevant projects.
• Explain the different data architecture models, benefits, and shortcomings of different models to relevant stakeholders when and as needed.
• Work collaboratively with others to identify ways to improve data collaboration and interoperability.
• Evaluate and quality assess the architecture models as a basis for recommending the most appropriate model to suit specific project requirements.
• Advocate for the fundamentals of data security and communicate to relevant stakeholders the organisations expectations for data security, data privacy, and confidentiality.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices in alignment with set standards for safe operations.
• Implement Sasol Group's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders to enable proper data extraction and utilisation.
• Continuously improve own skills and knowledge.
• Complete, implement, and track personal development plan to attain personal performance goals.

Formal Education

• University Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

Working Experience

• 9+ relevant years 
• Several years of professional experience in SAP Concur, ideally in an international setting and complex environments
• In-depth knowledge of SAP Concur Travel & Expense. Knowledge of financial systems, accounting principles, and SAP ERP integration is a significant advantage.

Deadline:17th September,2025