Architecture Advisor - Based in Oman or Qatar

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Architecture Advisor

Location: Muscat, Oman or Doha, Qatar

Language: Fluent English, Arabic considered a plus.

What you'll do:

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor (AA) works closely with SAP’s Sales organization and the Partner ecosystem to define the account strategy. AAs are responsible for bridging the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting the to-be business and solution architectures and designing a transformation roadmap at the enterprise level to facilitate the customer’s adoption of Cloud-based architectures.

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.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer

• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
• 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 leveraging standard cloud solutions.

Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables

• Drive business architecture and capability mapping to solution design.
• Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture.
• Support customer cloud 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:

• Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/business networks.
• Proven leadership and project management experience.
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree preferred.
• Togaf or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates.

Meet your team:

At the core of our mission, the Architecture Advisor team is dedicated to guiding our customers through their cloud business transformation journey. Our experts work collaboratively to deliver tailored, consistent value to every customer.

What sets our team apart: By speaking our customers' language, we build stronger foundations of trust and credibility. This allows us to engage with them in more meaningful ways, addressing industry-specific needs, challenges, and opportunities.

Skills you’ll use:

• Business Transformation
• Customer Focus
• Strategic Thinking
• Complex Problem Solving

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Requisition ID: 398008 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.