SAP Expert Architecture Advisor - Clean Core & BTP 

Belgium, Flemish Brabant 

403864705

Career Level: T4PF
Hiring Manager: PIETRO RUSCONI
Recruiter Name: Marika Galbiati

What you'll do

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

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

Being a Trusted advisor on SAP Clean Core Framework and SAP BTP Architecture

• Guide customers in adopting a Clean Core strategy by identifying and reducing core modifications and promoting extensibility through side-by-side and in-app approaches.
• Advocate for the use of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) for building scalable, upgrade-safe custom applications, extensions, and integrations.
• Evaluate the customer’s current custom code and extensibility practices, and recommend modernization paths aligned with SAP’s clean core vision.
• Support the alignment of customer development teams with ABAP Cloud and Key-User Extensibility best practices.
• Promote the implementation of SAP’s recommended extensibility model using BTP services (e.g., CAP, RAP, SAP Build, Integration Suite, Event Mesh).
• Collaborate with developers and enterprise architects to ensure that extensions are compliant with SAP’s upgrade strategy and maintain long-term system integrity.
• Ensure that Clean Core principles are embedded within the customer’s transformation roadmap, with clear milestones and governance models.
• Position Clean Core and BTP as foundational pillars in the enterprise architecture, enabling agility, innovation, and business continuity

What you bring

• 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.
• Deep Knowledge in SAP application extensibility and PaaS architecture design.
• 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.
• Fluency in English and Italian
• 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 a an added value for candidates

Position is open in both our Milan and Rome offices

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