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• This role is based in the SAP Labs offices in São Leopoldo (BR).

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, business, or related field.
• Experience from the use of SAP Activate methodology, tools, and best practices in full lifecycle customer engagements.
• Strong customer centricity: observant and able to draw conclusions about what is best for the customer.
• Excellent proven communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to learn new techniques and tools quickly and leverage them in daily work.
• Excellent communication in English, both written and spoken.
• Demonstrated experience and willingness to work across time zones and cross cultures.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative environment.

Preferred Skills

• Previous demonstrated experience in the design or creation of implementation methodologies for cloud solutions.
• Experience in Product Management or related areas is a strong plus.
• Proven experience in implementing SAP cloud products and solutions, including SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur, etc., is a plus.
• Proven ability to work across organizational boundaries.
• Good understanding of the SAP software development life cycle.
• Practical application of Scrum methodology and agile scaling frameworks is a plus.

You must have a passion for our state-of-the-art products, combined with knowledge of the solution implementation processes and market requirements. We expect an open mindset and passion to innovate, especially in the optimization of implementation cost, elimination of waste, simplification, automation, and the ability to drive and coordinate execution.

In this role, you will:

• Efficiently identify and document customer needs and requirements in close interaction with SAP Activate team colleagues, customers, and ecosystem partners.
• Analyze usage patterns, formulate hypotheses, and define how to adjust the content to better serve the customer’s needs.
• Apply the Design Thinking mindset to drive customer-centric innovation of the SAP Activate methodology.
• Engage with and influence a broad set of contributors and experts across the SAP organization to drive the design and realization of implementation guidance.
• Proactively partner with SAP experts to drive the development of the methodology guidance and implementation accelerators.
• Actively work on developing and optimizing SAP Activate methodology content with support from SAP experts across a range of solutions.
• Drive adoption of SAP Activate through an active engagement with the SAP Community, supporting the delivery of rollout materials, videos, and enablement sessions for customers and partners.

• 7+ years of experience in developing implementation methodologies as a SAP product manager, experience in delivery of SAP projects as part of SAP Services as an application/technology consultant, service delivery expert, solution architect, or project manager. Or similar experience with an SAP implementation partner.

• A flexible and diverse work culture.
• A chance to work with some of the best minds in the industry.
• An opportunity to shape the future of SAP and how it serves its customers.
• A career path that allows you to grow and learn.

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

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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

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and refine Spark workloads to enhance performance and resource efficienc.. This includes tuning parameters, re-engineering data processing pipelines, and ensuring optimal execution strategies.
• Implement monitoring solutions to detect and diagnose performance bottlenecks or failures in Spark applications. Solve complex runtime issues related to resource allocation, execution errors, or data inconsistencies.
• Collaborate with various parts of the organization to design and build a framework that allows Business Data Cloud workloads to scale effortlessly and elastically across distributed data environments.
• Produce documentation on best practices for Spark optimization and conduct training sessions or workshops to enhance the broader team’s expertise in performance tuning and support strategies.
• Lead AI-automation initiatives to improve workload scalability and efficiency.
• Mentor engineering teams and lead cross-functional global collaborations

Qualifications:

• Deep familiarity with principles of distributed computing, including concurrency, fault tolerance, and network latency, which are essential for optimizing distributed data processing.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Apache Spark architecture, including its core components like the driver, executor, and cluster manager, as well as Spark's execution model.
• Expertise in performance profiling and tuning Spark applications, including optimizing resource allocation, parallelism, and shuffling processes to reduce execution time and improve efficiency.
• Skilled in writing efficient SQL queries and transformations using SparkSQL and DataFrames, optimizing operations to reduce computation overhead.
• Strong debugging skills to identify and resolve runtime issues, optimize code paths, and rectify configuration or environment-related problems.
• Experience with tools such as Spark's web UI, Ganglia, Grafana, or Prometheus for monitoring application status and diagnosing performance bottlenecks.
• Comprehensive understanding of AI, ML trends and their applications in the distributed Data query execution space.
• Excellent leadership, mentorship, and communication skills.
• Strategic vision and deep analysis skills to foresee industry advancements

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Strategy & Leadership:

• Define and drive a compelling global strategy and multi-year business plan for the High-Tech industry.

• Act as a trusted strategic advisor to C-level customers, influencing key transformation initiatives.

• Align global and regional teams to strategic objectives to achieve revenue and customer success goals

• Serve as the executive sponsor for strategic customers, fostering long-term relationships.

• Guide customers across the Customer Value Journey, delivering tangible business outcomes

Go-to-Market Execution:

• Lead the development and execution of global demand generation programs, including customer storytelling, industry plays, and campaigns.

• Drive scalable sales plays aligned with regional execution and performance targets.

• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Product Engineering, and Partner teams to ensure cohesive execution

Thought Leadership & Ecosystem Influence:

• Represent SAP externally through keynotes, panels, and media engagements.

• Build and scale industry thought leadership by publishing impactful content and guiding enablement initiatives.

• Cultivate strategic partnerships and drive ecosystem-led growth and innovation

Enablement & Best Practice Sharing:

• Equip the global field with industry-specific tools, assets, and sales training.

• Share global best practices to scale customer success and accelerate adoption

• 15+ years of leadership experience in the High-Tech industry, ideally across sales, strategy, consulting, or product management.

• Deep understanding of digital transformation trends and business models in High-Tech (e.g., semiconductors, electronics, devices, hardware, SaaS/Cloud).

• Proven success leading global go-to-market or industry-specific initiatives with measurable impact.

• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder alignment, and customer engagement skills.

• Strong business acumen and experience influencing product and innovation strategy.

• Inspirational leader with a track record of building high-performing, cross-functional teams

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San Francisco
Oakland

What You’ll Do

As a Solution Advisor within the SAP Academy for Customer Success, you will be responsible to:

• Successfully complete a 10-month program that strengthens a foundation for a successful customer-facing career at SAP.
• Participate in experiential learning opportunities with colleagues from all over the world and acquire a wide variety of business, industry and SAP solution skills while working with emerging and cutting-edge technologies.
• Receive on-the-job training under the mentorship of a senior Solution Advisor colleague while working with our customers to gain real world experience and acquire the skills necessary to help guide our customers through their Digital Transformation journey.

Solution areas focus:

Knowledge in key areas such as accounting, procurement, and supplier management, focused on boosting visibility, cutting costs, and improving efficiency. (Accounting, finance, quote-to-cash, procurement, supplier management)

- Knowledge in core HR and payroll, talent management, employee experience management, HR analytics, workforce planning, and sales performance management.

What You Bring

• 2-3 years of professional experience with a strong foundation in technical and business processes, exposure to relevant technologies/ solutions, and customer-facing skills.
• Technical and business process knowledge, combined with strong complex problem-solving skills, to support solution delivery and operational efficiency through hands-on experience with relevant technologies and industry-standard tools.
• A cooperative and productive approach to working relationships, internally and externally.
• A strong ability to quickly learn new concepts, adapt to changing environments, and apply knowledge to deliver results.
• An understanding of AI fundamentals, uses, and ethics, to identify business problems solvable with AI.
• A resilient mindset, embracing challenges with optimism and consistently striving for growth and success.
• Strong Business Acumen, including demonstrated knowledge of business processes and/or industries.
• Proficiency in English to engage with our global networ
• Proficiency in Danish

We are planning a practical and immersive portion of our program, which will likely involve participants spending four (4) weeks, spread across two trips, in San Ramon, California. This experience is designed to provide unparalleled hands-on learning and networking opportunities. *Please note the in-person component is still in the planning phase, and the final decision will be confirmed by the first quarter of 2026. We will ensure that this information is communicated promptly, and that sufficient time is provided for necessary preparations.

During intensive phases of the program, it is critical that all participants are fully engaged and present to ensure maximum learning and success. As such, vacation will not be approved during some critical times of the program

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