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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Enterprise Architecture is the management and architecture unit within SAP Customer Services & Delivery board area, assisting customers to benefit from technology and digitalization in their businesses to become market leaders. We are committed to ideate business innovations, develop solutions and to turn novel ideas into business results. Our mission is to enhance technical implementations to business transformations with sustainable impact.

Join our dynamic regional SAP Enterprise Architects teams within CS&D, executing on our mission to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reducing complexity and operational costs, while fostering innovations to support evolving business needs for RISE customers.

If the words "innovation”, "agility”, and "personal responsibility” in a multi-disciplinary and international environment appeal to you, then EA is the right place for you!

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

As a Chief Expert Enterprise Architect (f/m/d), you guide customers digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAPs innovation and AI adoption.

You will utilize internal and external available customer specific information to develop a comprehensive reference Enterprise Architecture – RISE Model for our customers aligning with their business objectives. In your role you work with a variety of experts in a multi-disciplinary of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You increase the customer’s value by driving activities such as:

• Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practices and references
• Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer yields value from SAP‘s standard cloud qualities
• Identify innovation use cases (AI, BDC, CAIA, CIS) that benefit our customers strategic and operational objectives
• Applying and advising the integrated toolchain (ITC / BTM) to drive transformation efficiency
• Advising customer management on architecture and transformation activities
• Identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks
• Aligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy accelerating BTP adoption

YOUR PROFILE

We are looking for highly dynamic and entrepreneur minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can effectively drive and guide transformations, understand organizational change relevance and know how to realize innovation value.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Informatics or any comparable education
• 14+ yrs years of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and work as enterprise architect and/or transformation advisor
• Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmaps (tool based)
• Experience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally incl. support and optimization
• S/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience
• 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
• Solid knowledge of SAP’s strategy, the latest product portfolio and their impact on business
• Strong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationships
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills (in English and German) also regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions
• Mindset for strategic thinking, continuous learning and business acumen.
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies and tools
• Flexibility and ability to quickly adapt in a new environment, where you can grow fast
• Excellent English and German language skills

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 world.

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For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program , according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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Requisition ID: 447184 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 60% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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