Services Architecture Senior Specialist

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.  

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

SAP Data Management and Landscape Transformation (DMLT) group serves SAP customers in managing their data and transforming their landscapes. Business, market, and technology changes often result in realignment of business processes and structures.

This reflects in various business and IT driven activities, such as

• Fast-track data migration and the move to SAP S/4HANA via selective data transition (SAP S/4HANA SDT) options into SAP
• Manage business and IT challenges that come with mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Optimization of processes and data, or organizational restructuring
• Ensure data harmonization, data restructuring or the consolidation of IT system landscapes
• Improve data governance, master data management, data quality and information lifecycle management

We support and advise our customers globally in strategy definition, conceptual planning, and the realization of their business and digital transformation requirements. In fast pace changing market and business requirements, it is also essential for customers to adopt to the digital platform to drive their business innovation with SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA cloud.  The DMLT service portfolio and solution offerings play a significant role in helping customer to transition to SAP S/4HANA, BW/4, Successfactors, SAP Data Intelligence and more.

The DMLT solution offerings are based on three main portfolio items:

• Transformation solutions helping customers with their transition into the digital economy – on premise and cloud offerings
• Landscape transformation services including roadmap design, advisory, business blueprinting, execution, and safeguarding for topics like M&A, Divestitures, Unification services and System consolidation (all releases)  
• End-to-end data management solutions with products and technologies for Data Quality, Data Integration, Data Governance process etc.
• The service portfolio delivery ranges from short term engagements to long-term customer projects across global locations.

THE ROLE AND EXPECTATIONS

The SAP Data Management and Landscape Transformation (DMLT) as part of SAP’s Customer Success & Delivery Board Area is searching for a senior consultant to join the DMLT consulting team in India, Bangalore office.As a DMLT Senior consultant, your job will involve working in a global team focusing on delivering national and international projects across global regions to realize planned changes in productive SAP applications and system landscapes and drive customers transition to SAP S4/H. The DMLT team offers a full solution package encompassing analysis, architecture and service delivery putting the customers in the center of all our activities.  

Your main tasks are:

• Identifying customer’s holistic business needs and designing and architecting the appropriate solution proposal from the DMLT Portfolio and beyond
• Leading and facilitating customer’s workshops and discussions to validate the best solution design for the customers’ requirement and leading a global solution architect team 
• Delivering of DMLT services projects remotely and onsite, in distributed regional and global teams
• Conducting feasibility studies and system analyses, supported by SAP DMLT products, tools and methodology
• Contributing to continuously enhance the DMLT solution design according to changing market requirements and identify potential enhancements
• Closely collaborate with people in different roles and locations, and with different areas and levels of expertise (for example, customer engagement lead, developers, product owners, solution architects, sales teams)
• Establish and maintaining trustful relationships with people on all levels of both externally on customer side and SAP internally
• Drive customer opportunities throughout all engagement phases (presales, sales and delivery)

We expect:

• Continuous learning about new technologies, products, solutions and from project delivery experience
• Strong team player attitude: actively establish relationships and motivate through inspiration
• Show passion on the job: act as a role model, show authentic behavior, pride and enthusiasm in what you do
• Thinking outside the box, be aware of trends in the changing workforce and changing concepts of customer communication and engagement (i.e. Design Thinking Methods; lot size of one etc.)
• Understands the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically, can translate it into an adequate technology roadmap design (processes, applications, systems) as well as the appropriate operating concept based on SAP’s offerings, with a clear focus on customer success.
• Clarifies existing expectations with customer’s technology/ operations experts and stakeholders; creates an approach which integrates diverse points of views and which drives success from a technology / operation perspective. Collaborates with customer / SAP teams for the best possible implementation.
• Drives knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Documents successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available to colleagues at SAP.
• Collaborates and co-innovates with the respective development teams
• Defines IT strategies, -governance and –architecture based on state-of-the art technology; creates buy-in with the customer and works with other SAP-experts within the MaxAttention / Premium Engagements
• Defines the strategic, conceptual and technological boundaries for the design of the SAP-centric IT landscape as well as their financial impact. Can address the organization as well as the procedures of customers’ IT-departments with a focus on high efficiency, stability and performance. Helps customers to conceptualize a state-of-the-art Technology-Innovation Roadmap.
• Knows solutions to address the need for cost sensitive IT operations versus supporting innovation in the age of digital transformation
• Stays abreast with newest technological developments driving the Digital Transformation as well as the top technology trends; uses this knowledge to drive the SAP innovation story with customer engagements.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience as Consultant or Solution Architect of SAP Software solution portfolio and overall, 10 to 14 years of total IT industry experience.
• Strong work experience in one or more SAP ERP Solution or module (e.g. as a functional consultant with technical skills (SAP data model, ABAP) and experience in Data Transformation, Data Migration projects and solutions (SAP LT, DMLT Services or SAP EIM Solutions).
• Deep understanding of BTP architecture and BTP- App Dev & Integration
• Hands on expertise in BTP CAP&RAP, Fiori, OData, BTP-Restful Application Programming.
• Understanding in SAPs’ new dimension products along Intelligent Enterprise – e.g.) S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Intelligence, Machine Learning is plus.
• Proficiency in ABAP & Object-Oriented ABAP, ABAP on HANA, CDS, AMDP.
• SAP Full stack experience with S/4HANA implementations or extensions/integrations with BTP
• Good Knowledge of BTP and various services and security concepts of BTP.
• Understanding of cloud foundry architecture and development methodology

Added Advantage: 

• If candidate has programming knowledge and experience (SAPUI5, Python, JAVA, NodeJS etc.) is a strong asset.
• Knowledge on SAP’s best practice standards and tools for Application Lifecycle Management of Cloud Solutions
• If any experience in executing data migration and conversion projects, various data migration techniques and approaches as well as data management/governance topics like data management strategy, governance, data quality, master data governance.

About the team

The DMLT provides great opportunities to develop your professional and personal career working in a fast growing cross cultural team with close links to the service/product developments globally. Coaching will be conducted by DMLT solution architects & consultants in global, Asia Pacific Japan & Greater China.

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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

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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 (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 393695  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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