HP India | Enterprise Technology Costing Architect

Key responsibilities

• The role ensures that technology decisions across SAP S/4HANA, SAP PaPM, data platforms, integration technologies, analytics and downstream solutions operate as one coherent enterprise architecture rather than a collection of locally optimized solutions.
• The role works in close partnership with the Costing Business Solution Architect, Enterprise Architecture, Digital teams, solution/platform architects, technology owners and implementation partners.
• Own and maintain the E2E target technology architecture and technology roadmap for Costing.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security requirements and technology standards.
• Lead architecture reviews and technology design decisions that materially affect the E2E Costing architecture.
• Own the target application/system architecture across the Costing technology landscape.
• Drive architectural reuse and rationalization, avoiding unnecessary duplication or technology fragmentation.
• Evaluate technology options based on architectural fit, scalability, maintainability, reuse and enterprise sustainability.
• Assess emerging technologies, including AI and automation, where they can enable the approved Costing business solution.
• Own the architecture for costing data movement, storage, integration and consumption.
• Ensure architectural support for required data quality, traceability, reconciliation and auditability.
• Partner with business/data owners to ensure the technology architecture supports defined business information requirements and semantics.
• Establish and apply architecture principles, standards, patterns and technology guardrails for Costing.
• Ensure solution designs comply with the approved enterprise technology architecture.
• Lead/challenge decisions that alter the Costing technology architecture, integration model, platform strategy or technical standards.
• Manage architectural risks, technical debt and architecture exceptions.
• Provide architecture assurance throughout detailed design, build, testing, deployment and transition to run.
• Identify cross-system dependencies and architectural impacts early in solution design.
• Ensure individual solution/platform designs collectively deliver the approved E2E business solution.
• Work with Enterprise Architecture and relevant technology owners to resolve cross-domain architecture decisions.
• Provide E2E technology architecture leadership throughout the Costing Transformation.
• Evaluate alternative solution options and innovations proposed by partners based on technical feasibility, architectural fit, enterprise reuse, scalability and sustainability.
• Ensure the company retains long-term architectural ownership rather than allowing architecture to become vendor defined.
• Maintain technical continuity from architecture → detailed solution design → build → deployment → run.
• Translate the approved business solution blueprint and required business capabilities into the target technology architecture.

Requirements

• Preferred / Most Valuable Certifications, Knowledge and Skills
• Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

HP Inc.

HP Inc. carries on the personal computer and printer business of the Hewlett-Packard Company, which Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard started in Palo Alto, California, in 1939. In November 2015 the original company separated into two listed companies: HP Inc., which kept the PC and printing businesses, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a separate company. HP Inc. is headquartered in Palo Alto, its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HPQ, and it operates in more than 170 countries. Its products include notebooks, desktops, workstations and displays, home and office printers with their supplies and managed print services, Poly collaboration and video-conferencing devices, and 3D printing.

In India, HP works from offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, through entities including HP India Sales Private Limited and HP Computing & Printing Systems India Private Limited. Bengaluru is its largest base, with teams in finance, supply chain and procurement, customer support and services, sales operations, software and data. HP's finance roles in India cover financial planning and analysis, accounting and closing the books, budgeting and forecasting, lease and supply-chain finance, and finance transformation — work that suits B.Com, M.Com, MBA (Finance), CA, CFA, CPA and CMA profiles.

• Industry: Technology — personal computers, printing and hybrid-work devices
• Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, USA
• In India: Offices in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata