SAP Cloud Architecture Advisory Specialist 

United States, Texas, Houston 

895799424

What you'll do

This is a customer facing role where you will support the sales teams during entire cycle of a RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition. Following are the key tasks that this role will perform:

• Present in detail the SAP Cloud ERP Private service offerings and value proposition to the customers (usually to CIO’s, IT managers, data center managers and SAP Technology staff)
• Support and organize technical responses to RFP / RFI’s.
• Conduct detailed technical workshops with customers to define the “to-be” architecture and plan the migration roadmap together with Professional Services.
• Work closely with the SAP solution architects & customers to map the planned solution architecture into the Private Cloud Edition reference architecture.
• Blueprint customer requirements around HA/DR, Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, networks etc.
• Work to generate pricing and provide ongoing deal support to sales teams.
• Own the technical discussions with the customer on the SAP Cloud ERP Private topic and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from Cloud Architecture & Advisory organization as required.

What you bring

• 3-6 years of hands-on customer facing SAP Technology Consulting and/or Presales experience (eg. Basis Admin, DB Admin, Migrations, Upgrades, Business Continuity etc.)
• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science, Business Administration required from an accredited university.
• Experience with hosting providers, data centers is a BIG advantage; HANA / Suite on HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory.
• Experience working for an enterprise software and/or services vendor necessary
• Proficiency in customer communications and presentations is required.
• Good understanding of SAP technologies (releases, platform interdependencies etc.)
• Good understanding of the entire platform stacks (storage, virtualization, hardware, networks etc.)
• Good understanding of SAP Cloud ERP Private or RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition
• Good understanding of SAP Business Technology Platform
• Ability and willingness to undertake customer related travel on short notice.
• Fluent written and spoken English/Korean

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