SAP Senior Architecture Advisor 

Australia, Victoria, Melbourne 

609361284

What you’ll do:

As an Architecture Advisor (AA), you will focus on the following key areas:

Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities

• Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as footprint expansion.
• Engage with customers to support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team.
• Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organizations, the customer, and partners.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer

• • Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
  • Understand customer’s business process map and business model with industry reference architecture focus.
  • Understand customer’s current enterprise landscape and future needs.
  • Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) leveraging standard cloud solutions.

Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap

• • Drive business architecture and capability mapping to solution design.
  • Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture.
  • Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition (business and application focus).
  • Drive customer cloud/hybrid transformation roadmap definition (standard cloud application and technology focus).

Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer

• • Align living roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption.
  • Support living roadmap governance & adaptation based on evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions.
  • Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio

What You Bring:

Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:

• Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Sales, Presales, Adoption/Consumption, Consulting or Business Development, demonstrating successful outcomes over multiple years.
• Represent SAP as the trusted advisor within SAP and/or the market.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Proven track record of success in the Retail industry
• Proven leadership and project management experience.
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
• Fluency in English and Spanish are required
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
• TOGAF or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates
• Understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
• Knowledge of SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Knowledge 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.

• 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.

• S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.

• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.

• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English and Spanish) at the senior management 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 plus.

Professional Skills

Strategic Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Technology Innovation

Artificial Intelligence

Go-To-Market Strategy

Role Specific Skills

Transformation Roadmap Design & Management

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