Join our dynamic Enterprise Architects team within the new Customer Services & Delivery board. We lead digital transformation using cutting-edge technologies, advancing the RISE with initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. Our mission is to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reducing complexity and operational costs, while fostering innovation and efficiency to support evolving business needs.
What youll do:
As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture model for our customers aligning with their enterprise goals, collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner. You will drive the value realization and the solution adoption and lead activities such as:
Guide customers through their cloud journey (with special focus on adopt and derive), starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness.
Support adoption, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
Enhance impact on customers business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities
Bundle customer expectations and align business goals in a tangible enterprise level success plan to monitor and validate KPIs & value drivers to enable value-driven business transformation with value framework
Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission-critical processes.
Through governance, involve and engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organization to enhance value realization, establish a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams, enhancing customer proximity and experience.
Align customers and partners with Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote best practices.
Requirements: Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:
Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
In-depth knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4HANA applications.
Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
Knowledge of Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
Understanding of value framework, value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager)
Must-Have Requirements:
10+ years experience in customer facing roles.
Experience in supporting the customer in complex digital transformation journeys in delivery roles such as project manager, IT architect, functional consultant, application expert, process expert, etc.
knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities.
Proficiency in Clean Core principles.
S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the
This position is open to all candidates.