Principal Enterprise Architect

Principal Enterprise Architect - RISE (f/m/d)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. 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.ABOUT THE TEAMBusiness Transformation & Architecture (BT&A) is the management and architecture consulting unit within SAP Customer Services & Delivery board area, assisting customers to benefit from technology and digitalization in their businesses. Our mission is to enhance technical implementations to business transformations with sustainable impact.Join our dynamic regional SAP Enterprise Architects - RISE team within BT&A, 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.YOUR FUTURE ROLEAs an Enterprise Architect - RISE (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 will work with a variety of experts in a multi-disciplinary team of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You will increase the customer’s value by driving activities such as:Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practicesProviding architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principlesIdentifying innovation use cases that benefit our customers' strategic and operational objectivesAdvising customer management on architecture and transformation activitiesIdentifying and mitigating technical adoption risksAligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy accelerating BTP adoptionYOUR PROFILEWe are looking for dynamic and advisory-minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can effectively drive standards, organizational change, and innovation.What you will bring:5-10 years of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and working as an enterprise architect and/or transformation advisorProven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmapsExperience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally including support and optimizationS/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experienceProfessional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plusSolid knowledge of SAP’s strategy, the latest product portfolio, and their impact on businessSolid understanding of project management methodologies and toolsBachelor or Master’s degree in Informatics, Business Administration or any comparable educationStrong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationshipsStrong communication skills regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functionsMindset for strategic thinking, continuous learning, and business acumenFlexibility and ability to quickly adapt to a new environmentExcellent English and German language skillsIf the words “innovation”, “agility”, and “personal responsibility” in a multi-disciplinary and international environment appeal to you, then BT&A is the right place for youBring out your bestSAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. At SAP, you can bring out your best.We win with inclusionSAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone feels included and can run at their best. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.Requisition ID: 411494 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 60% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid. #J-18808-Ljbffr