Therole is a customer-focused role. The position requires a combination of strategic and practical experience.
Leadership
- Leads and supports the positioning and presentations with customer executives during the engagement. (Project execution as well as in Sales cycles - consultative selling)
- Introduce and translate SAP's Architecture Standards into customer's Enterprise Architecture.
- Contribute to and lead technology or business-related communities or practices.
- Lead and contribute to knowledge management and innovation activities.
- Act as a coach and/or mentor for less experienced colleagues
Advisory and Delivery
- Act as a trusted advisor for strategic customers
- Develop practical, large-scale enterprise architectures based on SAP solutions and the phased transitions of current to future state architectures.
- Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP ‘s cloud qualities.
- Understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM, or comparative tool sets.
- Participate in the development of large-scale transformation road maps, their financial modelling and business cases.
- Establish improved Governance, Value management concepts, Processes and Tools.
- Understand Customer's business and IT challenges on a strategic as well as operational level and create customer-specific SAP architecture and solution roadmaps.
- Translate the business requirements to the optimal utilisation of SAP Solutions and develop value-based roadmaps.
- Present and sell Strategic services proposals to business and IT C-level.
- Support SAP licence and services sales to create customer -specific, end-to-end services and solutions strategy through the sales cycle
Experience
The following are critical skills and capabilities which must be supported with a proven track record.
- Experience in an ICT delivery and / or strategy role with Enterprise Architecture, Project Management, Functional Consulting or Business Analysis as a core responsibility
- Relevant experience of establishing customer operating models for cloud/ hybrid enterprise architectures.
- Strong experience in SAP services commercial engagement models
- Experience of one (minimum) or more industry sectors; Government & Public Services, Energy & Utilities, Mining & Natural Resources
- Experience in architecting business transformation projects
- Experience in developing Enterprise Architectures using SAP technologies in cloud and hybrid environments. These enabling technologies should include one or more of: S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Business Technology Platform.
It is highly desirable to have experience in the following areas:
- Knowledge in: Business, Data, Application and Technology Architecture with a strong focus on business and Application Architecture
- Exposure in SAP Application Architecture and landscapes
- Additional Expertise in at least one (Digital) Business Transformation topic: Business Process Management, Organisational Change Management, Value Management, Project Management, Innovation Management, Strategic Roadmaps, Cloud Transformation, Digital Transformation.
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