Principal Enterprise Architect - RISE
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About the Team
The Business Transformation & Architecture (BT&A) unit within SAP Customer Services & Delivery board area assists customers in leveraging technology and digitalization in their businesses. We are committed to developing innovative solutions and turning ideas into business results. Our mission is to transform technical implementations into sustainable business outcomes.
You will join our dynamic regional SAP Enterprise Architects - RISE team within BT&A, executing on our mission to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reduce complexity and operational costs, and foster innovations to support evolving business needs for RISE customers.
Your Future Role
As an Enterprise Architect - RISE, you will guide customers' digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advance the RISE with SAP initiative, promote Clean Core principles, and accelerate SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption.
You will utilize internal and external customer-specific information to develop a comprehensive reference Enterprise Architecture – RISE Model for our customers, aligned with their business objectives. In your role, you will work with experts in a multi-disciplinary team of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You will increase customer value by driving activities such as:
* Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practices
* Providing architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure customers benefit from SAP's standard cloud qualities
* Identifying innovation use cases that benefit customers' strategic and operational objectives
* Advising customer management on architecture and transformation activities
* Identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks
* Aligning customers and partners with SAP's Clean Core strategy, accelerating BTP adoption
Your Profile
We seek dynamic and advisory-minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can drive standards, organizational change, and innovation effectively.
You will bring:
* 5-10 years of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and working as an enterprise architect and/or transformation advisor
* Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmaps
* Experience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally including support and optimization
* S/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience
* Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plus
* Solid knowledge of SAP's strategy, the latest product portfolio, and their impact on business
* Solid understanding of project management methodologies and tools
* Bachelor or Master's degree in Informatics, Business Administration, or any comparable education
* Strong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationships
* Strong communication skills regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions
* Mindset for strategic thinking, continuous learning, and business acumen
* Flexibility and ability to quickly adapt to a new environment, where you can grow fast
* Excellent English language skills
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