BTS Senior Enterprise Architect

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Job Description

Business Transformation Services (BTS) is the Digital Transformation strategic advisory arm of SAP’s Service & Support organization. We assist clients in achieving their Digital Transformation vision and Best-Run Business capability from their SAP and other IT investments. Our team draws on insights and experience from thousands of SAP customers. BTS works with customers at the program level and more broadly at the enterprise level to measure, mobilize, and deliver strategic business and IT outcomes. Our vision is to drive business and IT value and successful outcomes by helping our customers understand how best to leverage, implement and optimize SAP solutions for the industries in which they operate.

The BTS Senior Enterprise Architect will lead innovation and digital transformation initiatives for SAP’s largest and most important customers.

The responsibilities of this role include creating strategic and tactical roadmaps that trace deployment of SAP digital solutions to quantifiable business value drivers and compelling business cases to help guide our customer’s strategic decision-making activities as well as ensuring the realization of the identified value during the customer’s transformation journey.

The BTS Senior Enterprise Architect is a key role in customer’s transformation to a digital enterprise and cloud strategy, requiring knowledge and understanding of the SAP solutions and platform. At a minimum, a solid understanding of SAP’s S4/HANA and industry solutions is required.

The BTS Senior Enterprise Architect will provide comprehensive advice to our customers regarding long-term (Big Picture) and short-term (Quick-win) opportunities for their key strategic imperatives and will recommend innovations which anticipate the future direction of both business and IT stakeholders.

Excellent C-level facilitation and communication skills are essential as is the ability to effectively engage with executive stakeholders, partners and SAP account teams. Other key competencies of this role include the ability to:

1. Facilitate collaborative business process and solution architecture discussions with our customer’s business and IT executives
2. Develop 3-5 year strategic roadmaps for areas encompassing the evolution of enterprise business solution portfolios from current to future state.
3. Define and influence transition states toward joint business outcomes building on SAP solution value
4. Support business model innovation and business process re-design/optimization based on customer’s business needs and enabled by SAP’s solution and technology capabilities
5. Leverage industry and SAP best practices and reference architectures as well

Qualifications / Expertise:

1. Proven innovation and business or technical transformation skills/experience
2. Excellent C-level/business and IT executive communication skills
3. Proven SAP S/4HANA technical solution experience in design, planning, budgeting, feasibility studies and supply chain process and best practices.
4. Solid industry experience and consulting advisor experience or relevant SAP Solution Architect role at relevant and large SAP global and local customers.
5. Strong leadership skills - able to lead customer engagements at an executive level
6. Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
7. Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences
8. Ability to estimate the value impact of various SAP architecture alternatives
9. Project Management and post-graduation are a must.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 415271 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.