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Join our dynamic SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. We lead digital transformation using cuttingedge SAP technologies advancing the RISE with SAP initiative promoting Clean Core principles and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. Our mission is to simplify and modernize IT landscapes reducing complexity and operational costs while fostering innovation and efficiency to support evolving business needs.
What youll do:
As a Principal Enterprise Architect you will develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture model for our customers aligning with their enterprise goals collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner. You will drive the value realization and the solution adoption and lead activities such as:
- Guide customers throughtheir cloud journey (with special focus on adopt and derive) starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
- Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAPs cloud qualities.
- Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO driving architecture effectiveness.
- Support adoption identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
- Enhance impact on customers business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities
- Bundle customer expectations and align business goals in a tangible enterprise level success plan to monitor and validate KPIs & value drivers to enable valuedriven business transformation with value framework
- Serve as a trusted advisor ensuring secure reliable and flexible cloud environments for missioncritical processes.
- Through governance involve and engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organization to enhance value realization establish a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams enhancing customer proximity and experience.
- Align customers and partners with SAPs Clean Core strategy accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.
What You Bring:
T ransformation Architectural & Solution Skills:
- Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
- Indepth knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
- Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development automation data and analytics integration AI) and practical experience with S/4HANA applications.
- Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy familiarity with SAP LeanIX Signavio and Cloud ALM.
- Knowledge of SAPs Business AI roadmap including identifying use cases and piloting AIdriven solutions to enhance business processes.
- Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
- Understanding of SAPs value framework value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager)
MustHave Requirements:
- 10 years experience in customer facing roles
- Experience in supporting the customer in complex digital transformation journeys in delivery roles such as project manager IT architect functional consultant application expert process expert etc.
- Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset and experience with BTP components and services such as application development automation data and analytics integration and AI capabilities.
- Proficiency in Clean Core principles.
- S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
- Excellent communication influencing and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management and Clevels both within an IT team and across business functions.
- Mindset for Strategic Thinking Continuous Learning and Business Acumen.
NicetoHave Requirements:
- Knowledge of onpremises and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
- Professional training and certification (e.g. SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM SAP Certified ProfessionalEnterprise Architect PSAPEA2023 TOGAF) as a plus.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software SAP has evolved to become a market leader in endtoend business application software and related services for database analytics intelligent technologies and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide we are purposedriven and futurefocused with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries people or platforms we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAPyou can bring out your best.
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Requisition ID: Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services Expected Travel: 0 10 Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LIHybrid.
Key Skills
SAP BusinessObjects,Enterprise Architecture,Hybris,SAP HANA,SAP,TOGAF,Solution Architecture,Cloud Architecture,SAP BW 4HANA,Salesforce,SAP S/4HANA,SAP ERP
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1