Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect at SAP

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Meet Your Team

Join the dynamic SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. We 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. Our mission is to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reduce complexity and operational costs, and foster innovation to meet evolving business needs.

What You’ll Do

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will develop comprehensive enterprise architecture models for customers, aligning with their enterprise goals. You will collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner, driving value realization and solution adoption. Your key activities will include:

• Guide customers through their cloud journey, focusing on adoption and derivation, by leveraging Enterprise archetypes and digital scaling.
• Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure customers benefit from SAP’s cloud qualities.
• Act as a Transformation Partner for CIOs or other CxOs, enhancing architecture effectiveness.
• Support adoption, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
• Enhance impact on customer’s business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities.
• Bundle customer expectations and align business goals into a tangible enterprise-level success plan, monitoring and validating KPIs & value drivers for value-driven business transformation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission-critical processes.
• Through governance, engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organization to enhance value realization and establish a common perspective on business goals across solution areas.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption, and promote SAP best practices.

What You Bring

Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:

• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• In-depth 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.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
• Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers, and business case creation with tools like VLM (SAP Value Lifecycle Manager).

Must-Have Requirements:

• 10+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end-to-end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at senior management and C-levels.
• 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.

Key skills/competency

• Enterprise Architecture
• Digital Transformation
• RISE with SAP
• Clean Core Strategy
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
• S/4HANA
• Cloud Adoption
• IT Modernization
• Stakeholder Management
• Value Realization