Global Senior Enterprise Architect (f/m/d)

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. 

The position is available for all SAP Locations in Germany.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Join our dynamic global SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. At a global scale, we are the business partners to the regional Enterprise Architect teams who help our customers to drive digital transformation using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. We support customer engagements globally, focussing on board-mandated and critical customer situations in close collaboration with the regional teams. We excel in structuring new and ambiguous problems and helping our customers to solve them. 

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

• Support the roll-out of BTA and EA methods into the regions, developing regional flavors to achieve a consistent execution of the BTS and EA and strong connection to regional and local CS&D
• Collaborate closely with other teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and guidelines
• Establish a deep understanding of EA's business benefit, build-up easily accessible repositories for industry flavored artefacts, assets, and deliverables together with other teams while supporting the roll-in method evolution from PE&A to delivery 
• Act as advocate for EA across engagements within global engagements and support regional and MU architecture initiatives within and beyond CS&D 
• Support the development, management and adaption of architectural frameworks, methods, and tools 
• Work closely with partner ecosystem, SIX, and Marketing to develop formats to make architectural discussions tangible for customers and Infuse transformational architectural discussion in every customer interaction across the globe
• Drive forward the further development of the EA role’s vision, responsibility, tasks, and embedding an architectural mindset acorss organization
• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• 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 SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI-driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.

Must-Have Requirements:

• 5+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end-to-end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• 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.
• S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management within an IT team and across business functions.
• Proficiency in German is a plus.
• Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen.

 
Nice-to-Have Requirements:

• Knowledge of on-premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
• Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plus.

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.   

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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Requisition ID: 394891 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 60% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time or Part Time, unlimited

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