What you'll do
- Delivering relevant Enterprise Architecture guidance to the SAP front-office teams and SAP customers directly, under the umbrella of the SAP MaxAttention services contract
- Support the front-office architects and account teams in their architecture related work with the customer, as a combination of process guidance and back-office like responsibility
- Collaborate with SAP Transformation Hub counterparts globally, to ensure continuity throughout the journey of defining a customer IT strategy and providing guidance in conceptual and architectural questions typical for an IT transformation
- Delivery of strategy services and architecture point-of-view services
- Guide large enterprises through a business or IT transformation by identifying drivers for change, mapping those drivers to enablers in terms of application components or non-functional qualities and deriving an industry and customer-specific target architecture
- Build and maintain a central knowledge hub, enabling a cross customer / cross industry and cross regional perspective to architecture-related topics
- Refine and evolve the service methodology which includes documentation and collection of learnings from the deliveries for re-use by the service development groups, to further improve the service concepts and service content
- Maintain a strong network within SAP Customer Services & Delivery as well as SAP Product Engineering; building up strategic working relationship across multiple locations
- Up to 30% travel required to various client sites globally
What you bring
- 15+ years of experience in working on SAP based architectures & general IT strategies
- 10+ years of experience in working with SAP customers in the strategic segment
- Experience with at least one of the following Line of Business (LoB): Finance, Sales, Procurement or Manufacturing
- Proven track record in advising large enterprises on IT strategy and enterprise architecture topics
- Familiarity with one or multiple Enterprise Architecture domains (Business, Application, Data, Technology)
- Experience with turning customer requirements into requirements for an application architecture
- Structuring and documenting methodologies and best practices (whitepapers, presentations)
- SAP ERP and SAP S/4HANA product knowledge and hands-on experience
- SAP-based architectures & general IT technology strategies
- Working on Enterprise Architecture artifacts (e.g. Business capability modeling as part of business architecture or application landscape design as part of application architecture)
- Architecting, Designing and Implementing End-to-End SAP S/4HANA implementation project using latest intelligent technologies in a customer landscape
- Strong network within Customer Services & Delivery as well as Product Engineering
- An Enterprise Architecture certification such as TOGAF would be an advantage
- Experience in supporting one customer for a longer period of time (e.g. as enterprise architect)
Under the umbrella of SAP MaxAttention, the SAP Transformation Hub is a global organization designed to enable an advanced, scalable way of delivering relevant architecture guidance to the SAP front-office teams and customers directly. The regional SAP Transformation Hub teams in North America, Germany and India closely collaborate on these topics:
- Support the front-office architects and account teams in their architecture-related work with the customer, as a combination of process guidance and back-office like responsibility. Close collaboration with SAP Transformation Hub counterparts ensures continuity throughout the journey of defining a customer IT strategy and providing guidance in conceptual and architectural questions typical for an IT transformation.
- Active delivery of strategy services service and architecture Pont of Views together with the front-office architect role
- Central knowledge hub enabling a cross customer / cross industry and cross regional perspective to architecture-related topics
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