SAP Services Architecture Senior Specialist 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

236884406

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

This reflects in various business and IT driven activities, such as

• Fast-track data migration and the move to SAP S/4HANA via selective data transition (SAP S/4HANA SDT) options into SAP
• Manage business and IT challenges that come with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Optimization of processes and data, or organizational restructuring
• Ensure data harmonization, data restructuring or the consolidation of IT system landscapes
• Improve data governance, master data management, data quality and information lifecycle management

The DMLT solution offerings are based on three main portfolio items:

• Transformation solutions helping customers with their transition into the digital economy – on premise and cloud offerings
• Landscape transformation services including roadmap design, advisory, business blueprinting, execution, and safeguarding for topics like M&A, Divestitures, Unification services and System consolidation (all releases)
• End-to-end data management solutions with products and technologies for Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Governance process etc.
• The service portfolio delivery ranges from short term engagements to long-term customer projects across global locations.

THE ROLE AND EXPECTATIONS

Your main tasks are:

• Identifying customer’s holistic business needs and designing and architecting the appropriate solution proposal from the DMLT Portfolio and beyond
• Leading and facilitating customer’s workshops and discussions to validate the best solution design for the customers’ requirement and leading a global solution architect team
• Delivering of DMLT services projects remotely and onsite, in distributed regional and global teams
• Conducting feasibility studies and system analyses, supported by SAP DMLT products, tools and methodology
• Contributing to continuously enhance the DMLT solution design according to changing market requirements and identify potential enhancements
• Closely collaborate with people in different roles and locations, and with different areas and levels of expertise (for example, customer engagement lead, developers, product owners, solution architects, sales teams)
• Establish and maintaining trustful relationships with people on all levels of both externally on customer side and SAP internally
• Drive customer opportunities throughout all engagement phases (presales, sales and delivery)

We expect:

• Continuous learning about new technologies, products, solutions and from project delivery experience
• Strong team player attitude: actively establish relationships and motivate through inspiration
• Show passion on the job: act as a role model, show authentic behavior, pride and enthusiasm in what you do
• Thinking outside the box, be aware of trends in the changing workforce and changing concepts of customer communication and engagement (i.e. Design Thinking Methods; lot size of one etc.)
• Understands the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically, can translate it into an adequate technology roadmap design (processes, applications, systems) as well as the appropriate operating concept based on SAP’s offerings, with a clear focus on customer success.
• Clarifies existing expectations with customer’s technology/ operations experts and stakeholders; creates an approach which integrates diverse points of views and which drives success from a technology / operation perspective. Collaborates with customer / SAP teams for the best possible implementation.
• Drives knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Documents successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available to colleagues at SAP.
• Collaborates and co-innovates with the respective development teams
• Defines IT strategies, -governance and –architecture based on state-of-the art technology; creates buy-in with the customer and works with other SAP-experts within the MaxAttention / Premium Engagements
• Defines the strategic, conceptual and technological boundaries for the design of the SAP-centric IT landscape as well as their financial impact. Can address the organization as well as the procedures of customers’ IT-departments with a focus on high efficiency, stability and performance. Helps customers to conceptualize a state-of-the-art Technology-Innovation Roadmap.
• Knows solutions to address the need for cost sensitive IT operations versus supporting innovation in the age of digital transformation
• Stays abreast with newest technological developments driving the Digital Transformation as well as the top technology trends; uses this knowledge to drive the SAP innovation story with customer engagements.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience as Consultant or Solution Architect of SAP Software solution portfolio and overall, 10 to 14 years of total IT industry experience.
• Strong work experience in one or more SAP ERP Solution or module (e.g. as a functional consultant with technical skills (SAP data model, ABAP) and experience in Data Transformation, Data Migration projects and solutions (SAP LT, DMLT Services or SAP EIM Solutions).
• Deep understanding of BTP architecture and BTP- App Dev & Integration
• Hands on expertise in BTP CAP&RAP, Fiori, OData, BTP-Restful Application Programming.
• Understanding in SAPs’ new dimension products along Intelligent Enterprise – e.g.) S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Intelligence, Machine Learning is plus.
• Proficiency in ABAP & Object-Oriented ABAP, ABAP on HANA, CDS, AMDP.
• SAP Full stack experience with S/4HANA implementations or extensions/integrations with BTP
• Good Knowledge of BTP and various services and security concepts of BTP.
• Understanding of cloud foundry architecture and development methodology

Added Advantage:

• If candidate has programming knowledge and experience (SAPUI5, Python, JAVA, NodeJS etc.) is a strong asset.
• Knowledge on SAP’s best practice standards and tools for Application Lifecycle Management of Cloud Solutions
• If any experience in executing data migration and conversion projects, various data migration techniques and approaches as well as data management/governance topics like data management strategy, governance, data quality, master data governance.

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