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The position is available for all SAP Locations in Germany.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

As Principal Enterprise Architect RISE for Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industries - MU Germany (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 SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) 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 team 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
• Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP‘s standard cloud qualities
• Identify innovation use cases that benefit our customers strategic and operational objectives
• 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 dynamic, advisory-minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can effectively drive standards, organizational change, and innovation.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor‘s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Informatics or any comparable education
• 9-11+ yrs. of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and working as an enterprise architect and/or transformation advisor
• Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmap
• Discrete Manufacturing Industries’ know-how
• 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
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies and tools
• Strong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationships
• Strong communication skills also regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions
• Mindset for strategic thinking, continuous learning and business cumen
• Flexibility and ability to quickly adapt to a new environment, where you can grow fast
• Excellent English and German language skills

ABOUT THE TEAM – Chemical & Pharmaceutical Industries

Business Transformation & Architecture (BT&A) is SAP’s management and architecture consulting unit within the Customer Services & Delivery board area. We guide Chemical and Pharmaceutical companies on their digital transformation journeys, enabling them to harness the full value of SAP’s intelligent enterprise solutions and to accelerate their move to the cloud through innovative, scalable approaches that deliver tangible business results.

Today’s chemical and pharmaceutical organizations are navigating complex challenges: increasing regulatory demands, global supply chain volatility, the need for sustainable operations, accelerated innovation cycles, and greater emphasis on patient and customer-centricity. Our mission is to help industry leaders stay ahead by unlocking real-time data insights, streamlining compliance, optimizing R&D and production processes, and driving sustainable growth—all while maintaining the highest standards for quality and safety.

Within BT&A, our SAP RISE Enterprise Architects team plays a strategic role in supporting chemical and pharmaceutical customers as they manage transformation and complexity. We enable companies to connect digital capabilities across the value chain—from research and development to manufacturing and distribution—enhancing visibility, traceability, and responsiveness with SAP’s industry-leading technologies and expertise.

If you are driven by digital innovation, passionate about addressing mission-critical challenges, and eager to help shape the future of the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries, BT&A offers the perfect environment to deliver lasting impact with SAP at the core.