SAP Expert Architecture Advisor 

United Kingdom, England, London 

845174238

What you'll do:

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

Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities.

• Lead the business and technical solution engagements with the customer stakeholders, crafting the overall narrative to the customer of how to attain their objectives with SAP.

• Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as footprint expansion

• Support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team. Identifying necessary expert resources needed to address customer specific requirements

• 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 high level 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 with focus on standard cloud application and technology focus

Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer.

• Align transformation roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption​.

• Support transformation roadmap governance & adaptation based on evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions​.

• Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio

• Evangelise strategic SAP innovation areas and strategy such as: AI and Data Strategy

What you bring:

• Extensive experience within the SAP eco-system, able to demonstrate a deep understanding of what it takes to successfully transform a business with SAP. Typically with a PreSales or Consulting organization.

• Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architect or Enterprise Architect and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, 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 selected industry area, if required.

• Proven leadership and project management experience.

• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.

• Always learning: a growth mindset in this role is essential, not just for the SAP solutions but to maintain a close understanding and appreciation of competitive solutions

• Fluency in English: demonstrating excellent presentation and communication skills; any other language is an asset.

• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.

• Design Thinking experience in customer facing engagements is desirable

• Togaf or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using the SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology tools is an added value for candidates

: Multiple openings are available for this position.

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