SAP Architecture Advisor EMEA - Business AI 

Germany, Saxony, Dresden 

681195422

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.
• Define AI-enabled cloud architecture to position the value of SAP toward our customers and to support the transformation and optimization of business processes within SAP environments.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.
• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into scalable AI-driven SAP solutions.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer focusing on innovation and AI

• 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.
• Leverage AI/ML models to enhance predictive analytics, decision-making, and operational efficiencies within SAP applications.
• Architect and design AI solutions that integrate with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP, SAP AI Core, and other SAP technologies.

• Position the value SAP Business Data Cloud to enable the use of data and the data pipelines to enhance AI capabilities
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to grow on SAP and Customers teams the knowledge on SAP Business AI best practices.
• Stay updated on AI advancements, SAP innovations, and emerging trends in enterprise technology.

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 and AI 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:

• 6+ yrs of 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 AI model.
• Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Expertise in AI/ML frameworks and cloud AI services (SAP Business AI but also AWS, Azure AI, Google AI).
• 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; any other language is an asset.
• Fluency in the language of local markets is desirable.
• 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

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