Solution and Enterprise Architect (f/m/d) in Premium Engagement

at  SAP

WE HELP THE WORLD RUN BETTER

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

A key competency of this role is the ability to translate SAP customers’ business problems and ambitions into practical tactical and strategic roadmaps charting the deployment of digital solutions SAP offers from a deep inside out perspective of our customers.

• Be the key SAP architect for our global customers when it comes to Enterprise Architecture Transformation Planning following proven methodologies and latest Enterprise Architecture Management toolsets.
• Act as advisor to the customer with a broad application, Line of Business (LoB) or industry understanding.
• Review the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically (e.g. industry, LoB), and translate them into an appropriate business-driven IT-roadmap and architecture design based on SAP’s offerings and SAP’s cloud strategy, with a clear focus on customer success.
• Challenge existing solutions / approaches / concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome.
• Identify clear value drivers and develop compelling outcome-based value propositions to guide customer’s decision-making.
• Operationalize the customers’ business strategies, identify relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and help our customers to leverage the differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions.
• Clarify expectations from various stakeholders, especially in very difficult cases; create a solution which integrates diverse points of view and serves as a starting point for future SAP business. Collaborate with customers, partners and SAP teams for the best possible implementation.
• Take a step back if required and re-define the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design).
• Drive knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Document successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available at SAP internally.
• Support our customers on their transformation to SAP S/4HANA / Intelligent Enterprise.
• Fully understand and leverage the capabilities of SAPs technology platform(s).
• Take the lead of delivery of complex remote and onsite services together with our experts for global customers with focus on system optimization, conceptual planning and road mapping as well as empowering the customers with newest best practice knowledge.
• Collaborate and co-innovate with the respective development and product teams.