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COMPANY DESCRIPTION

As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries innovate through simplification. From the back office to the boardroom, warehouse to storefront, on premise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable customers to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

The expected tasks of the Enterprise Architect (f/m/d) SAP MaxAttention Transformation Hub include:

• Delivering relevant Enterprise Architecture guidance to the SAP front-office teams and SAP customers directly, under the umbrella of the SAP MaxAttention services contract
• Support the front-office architects and account teams in their architecture related work with the customer, as a combination of process guidance and back-office like responsibility
• Collaborate with SAP Transformation Hub counterparts globally, to ensure continuity throughout the journey of defining a customer IT strategy and providing guidance in conceptual and architectural questions typical for an IT transformation
• Delivery of strategy services and architecture point-of-view services
• Guide large enterprises through a business or IT transformation by identifying drivers for change, mapping those drivers to enablers in terms of application components or non-functional qualities and deriving an industry and customer-specific target architecture
• Build and maintain a central knowledge hub, enabling a cross customer / cross industry and cross regional perspective to architecture-related topics
• Refine and evolve the service methodology which includes documentation and collection of learnings from the deliveries for re-use by the service development groups, to further improve the service concepts and service content
• Maintain a strong network within SAP Customer Services & Delivery as well as SAP Product Engineering; building up strategic working relationship across multiple locations
• Up to 30% travel required to various client sites globally

This role requiring conceptual skills and the ability to turn one’s own learning into learning experience for others, be they colleagues or customers:

• 15+ years of experience in working on SAP based architectures & general IT strategies
• 10+ years of experience in working with SAP customers in the strategic segment
• Experience in supporting one customer for a longer period of time (e.g. as enterprise architect)
• Masters degree in Business Administration and/or Computer Science
• Experience with at least one of the following Line of Business (LoB): Finance, Sales, Procurement or Manufacturing and experience in one of the following industry clusters Consumer Industries, High Tech, ENR
• Familiarity with one or multiple Enterprise Architecture domains (Business, Application, Data, Technology)
• Experience with turning customer requirements into requirements for an application architecture
• Structuring and documenting methodologies and best practices (whitepapers, presentations)
• SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA product knowledge and hands-on experience
• SAP-based architectures & general IT technology strategies
• Working on Enterprise Architecture artifacts (e.g. Business capability modeling as part of business architecture or application landscape design as part of application architecture)
• Architecting, Designing and Implementing End-to-End SAP S/4HANA implementation project using latest intelligent technologies in a customer landscape
• Strong network within SAP Services & Delivery as well as Product Engineering
• An Enterprise Architecture certification such as TOGAF would be an advantage
• Solid English skills required and German skills are a strong plu