Key Responsabilities and Tasks
The Senior Architect:
- Acts as an advisor to the customer with a broad application, LoB or industry understanding.
- Understands the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically (e.g. industry, LoB), can translate them into an appropriate business-driven IT-roadmap and architecture design based on SAP’s offerings and SAP’s cloud strategy, with a clear focus on customer success.
- Helps to operationalize the customers’ business strategies, identifies relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and helping our customers reap the increasingly differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions.
- Challenges existing solutions / approaches / concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome.
- Takes a step back if required and re-defines the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design).
- Helps to clarify expectations from various stakeholders, especially in very difficult cases; creates a solution which integrates diverse points of views and serves as a starting point for future SAP business. Collaborates with customers, partners and 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 at SAP internally.
- Collaborates and co-innovates with the respective development teams. > Fully understands and leverages the capabilities of SAPs technology platform(s). > Understands and uses various Architectural patterns – e.g. micro-service based architecture, reactive architecture, cloud native etc.
- Can support sales deals by articulating deployment scope, design, roadmap, and estimates
- Designs a to-be architecture for optimal outcome that supports the realization of expected business outcomes.
- Helps defining the strategic, conceptual, and organizational scope for the design of the SAP-centric IT landscape, especially when customer requirements are very challenging.
- Based on their domain knowledge, develops the business, application, data, technology or enterprise architecture in close collaboration with the customer, considering all aspects of complex / extraordinary situations, to generate delightful solutions for customers.
- Stays up-to-date with newest developments driving business and technology trends and uses this knowledge to expand the list of the SAP innovation stories with tangible customer engagements.
- Understands their respective role in the overall SAP team and acts accordingly.
- Contributes to avoiding escalations especially by proactive leadership of the customer and the deployment of an appropriate project & program governance.
- Helps troubleshooting success-critical customer issues related to SAP, independent of their nature.
- Acts based on their Architect role in service delivery, as Business Architect, Application (Solution) Architect, Data Architect, Technical Architect or Enterprise Architect.
- Helps advising and mentoring diverse teams, which include customer, partner and SAP resources.
- Participate in SAP BTP integration projects from end to end, including requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and translate them into technical solutions within SAP BTP.
- Provide technical guidance and support to project teams, ensuring the successful implementation of SAP BTP integration solutions.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and sustainable integration solutions.
- Stay current with the latest SAP BTP technologies, best practices, and industry trends to drive continuous improvement in integration solutions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Expertise in SAP ABAP and Fiori developments are mandatory.
- 5+ years of experience working on SAP integration projects, with a focus on SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), API management, and integration services. SAP PO expertise is a plus.
- Proficiency in SAP BTP, including hands-on experience with SAP Cloud Platform Integration, SAP Business Application Studio, and SAP BTP services.
- Native Greek speaker with proficiency in English.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with clients and internal teams.
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