Chief Enterprise Architect - Rise Multiple Locations jobs at Sap in Bulgaria, Burgas

Compensation Range Transparency:The annualbase salary range for this position is146,078 - $180,576.the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career levelapplicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is$146,078 - $205,200and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements:

Philadelphia

What you’ll do:

As a
Senior Enterprise Architect - RISE (f/m/d),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 through their 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 SAP‘s 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 customer’s 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 value-driven business transformation with value framework
• Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission-critical 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 SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.

Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:

• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• In-depth 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 SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
• Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager)

Must-Have Requirements:

• 5+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end-to-end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• 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 SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills ( in English & German ) at the senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions.
• Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen.

Nice-to-Have Requirements:

• Knowledge of on-premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
• 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 plu

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The salary, exceeding the collective agreement, starts at a gross amount of €60.000 (excluding bonus) and varies according to individual qualifications and work experience.

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• Orchestrate the cloud selling motion with some of SAP’s largest, most complex, and strategic customers
• Act as a subject matter expert / trusted advisor in sales cycles.
• Leverage and coordinate cross-functional teams (Account Managers, VAT, Partners) to efficiently navigate complex sales cycles.
• Build the vision and identify expansion opportunities within the existing customer base.
• Provide direction to strategic account plans, including customer profiles and targeted programs by working closely with regional sales, marketing, pre-sales, and various other teams.
• Execute demand generation programs in each region to support RISE budgetary goals.
• Develop and deploy enablement sessions for internal and partner sales teams to supplement and grow their selling skills.
• Identify, analyze, and secure RISE renewals and drive increased transactional RISE revenue.
• Drive demand and pipeline acceleration initiatives to support revenue growth.
• Identify and execute on expansion opportunities across the product suite (e.g., secondary MOVE scenarios, switch motions).
• Prioritize net revenue retention growth through cross-sell and up-sell strategies over direct involvement in renewal analysis and closure.
• Collaborate with other roles (e.g., EA-RISE) who are primarily responsible for churn prevention and securing renewals during the ADOPT and DERIVE phases.

• 8+ years of experience in sales of business software/IT solutions.
• Strong knowledge of the SAP solution offering (including Service and Support).
• Proven track record in business application software sales.
• Demonstrated success with large complex transactions and lengthy sales campaigns in a fast-paced, consultative, and competitive market.
• Experience driving renewals, expansions, and up-sells of subscription or perpetual license-based solutions.

• Deep understanding of the specific solution portfolio. (Cloud ERP Private)
• Broad understanding of SAP solution portfolio (Business Suite), specifically domains like BTP, BDC, BTM and Business AI.
• Established relationships with SAP MU leadership, account teams, and Industry teams.

• Demand Generation, Pipeline, and Opportunity Management.
• Develop an opportunity plan containing the value proposition.
• Work with wider account teams on sales campaigns.
• Strong sales skills to identify opportunities for Move/Expand accounts.
• Engage with customers during Select and identify cross-sell/up-sell opportunities.
• Deep knowledge of how companies operate, including business models, strategies, and end-to-end business processes.

• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Strategic thinker with a high degree of creativity and innovation.
• Excellent executive presence.
• Results-driven.
• Highly trusted as a subject matter expert, positioning the value of modernized ERP and new operating models.

To be successful in this role, the Accelerated Sales Expert must:

• Orchestrate internal resources to deliver an executive and tailored Point of View leading to an accelerated sales motion.

• Position as a subject matter expert, demonstrating the value of modernized ERP and innovative platforms.
• Demonstrate ability to challenge customers' status quo and position RISE as a journey to the Business Suite.

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Philadelphia

About the Role

A holistic business transformation is about changing the whole culture and mindset of an enterprise. It’s about redesigning your business processes. It’s about adopting new technologies – to unlock new ways of running your business and stay ahead of your industry. To truly transform your business at your speed and terms, you need more than Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service. You need a holistic offering. What you need is Business Transformation-as-a-Service.

What You’ll Do

This is a customer-facing role focused on Strategic Customers where you will support broader virtual account teams during the entire sales cycle of a Cloud deal. The following are the key tasks that this role will perform:

• Present RISE Private Cloud offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build customer-specific cloud roadmaps to support cloud adoption and Business Transformations
• Gather as-is technical requirements and map them to to-be Enterprise cloud architecture
• Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements
• Work with SAP delivery and engineering teams to address customer-specific requirements
• Present the value proposition for SAP private cloud on Hyperscale clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Conduct Technical Assessment workshops with customers to define the future Cloud architecture and support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services
• Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, Networks, etc
• Own the technical discussions with the customer and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from the SAP delivery organization as required
• Act as Trusted Advisor to VAT and assigned customers on all technical aspects of SAP RISE

What You Bring

• High proficiency in customer communications and presentations is required
• High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions
• Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.)
• Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
• Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP)
• Ability and willingness to be part of a global team of Cloud Architects
• Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice
• Fluency in English is a MUST, any other language is an asset
• 2+ years of customer-facing pre-sales and cloud architecture role is an advantage
• 5+ years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience
• 5+ years of solution design, enterprise architecture, and or SAP implementation
• SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are a plus
• Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are a big advantage
• SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory
• Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred

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Philadelphia

What you will do

• Collect, prepare and structure data from various sources
• Analyze big data volumes to gain insights, detect pattern and trends
• Create and maintain notebooks for data analysis
• Development and Appliance of Models in the discipline of LLM, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics
• Interpretation and Visualization of Analysis results
• Derive recommendations and provide support to decisions - based on the data analysis
• Continuous improvement of models and processes
• Develop new methods of analysis

What you bring

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field
• 4-8 years of hands-on experience in data science and machine learning
• Proficiency in Python
• Experience in statistical modeling, predictive analytics and data mining techniques
• Understanding of algorithm design, data cleaning, and feature engineering
• Ability to work in fast-paced, collaborative teams on multiple concurrent projects
• Analytical skills with the ability for abstract thinking,problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Good communication skills, with the ability to convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders
  

Nice to have

• Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Databricks)
• Exposure to DevOps practic

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

What you’ll do

As Digital Enterprise Architect Consultant you are responsible for driving scalable enterprise transformation, enabling organizations to accelerate cloud adoption, optimize business value, and maximize automation. You support customers to translate their strategy into architecture and support them on their cloud transformation journey by leveraging SAP’s reference-based services that allow an outside-in perspective. Furthermore, you can expect to:

• Be at the forefront of modernizing enterprise transformation by leveraging digital tools
• Support organizations to continuously innovate and adopt state-of-the-art technologies
• Drive the adoption of AI-driven automation and SAP RISE integrated toolchain and methodologies
• Join a dynamic ecosystem focused on digital customer engagement
• Work in an innovative and growth-oriented business area
• Benefit from a culture that encourages collaboration, continuous learning and growth mindsets

What you bring

• Knowledge of cloud technology (SaaS, DaaS, PaaS) in business environments
• Knowledge of project management methods (certification is an advantage) and the ability to plan, coordinate, and monitor initiatives, and problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation skills as well as clear and effective communication and the ability to build and maintain relationships with various stakeholders and understand their expectations, technical and business requirements
• Understanding of enterprise architecture methods as well as integration architectures is a plus
• SAP product knowledge as well as SAP RISE, SAP BTP and Clean Core strategies is a plus
• Proficiency in English

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