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What you'll do

As an E2E Solutions Architect (f/m/d), you will design, develop, and implement end-to-end cloud-based solutions for enterprise-level projects, collaborating closely with stakeholders to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping and optimizing solutions that are vital to SAP's business, working across delivery units and driving customer and partner excellence. You will also contribute to strategic direction while staying aligned with best practices and business requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Architecture Design: Design and architect end-to-end cloud solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security across projects.

• Solution Ownership: Take ownership for designing architectures across end-to-end processes, ensuring readiness for implementation with sales, delivery, and customer engagement units inside and outside SAP.

• Blueprint Development: Develop target and transition solution architecture blueprints to guide project implementation.

• Collaboration and Alignment: Actively work with product, process management, engineering, and operations teams to align the architecture with current and future product and cloud offerings. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business/process experts and global stakeholders up to the executive level.

• Innovation Roadmaps: Define technical roadmap items for innovation adoption with subject matter experts and ensure continuous evolution of the architecture.

• Business Requirement Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into technical solutions.

• Team Leadership: Lead and support development teams in executing architectural blueprints, ensuring alignment with project goals.

• Architecture Review and Integration: Conduct architecture reviews to maintain adherence to industry standards. Develop integration designs for seamless connectivity between SAP Cloud and on-premise systems.

• Data Architecture Design: Design data architectures that ensure optimal alignment to standards and utilization of central data products.

• Governance and Approvals: Prepare materials and submit proposals through architecture governance boards for approvals.

• Strategic Support: Support management in shaping strategic directions for project solutions and customer engagement.

• Technology and Industry Awareness: Stay current with the latest cloud technologies, SAP advancements, and industry trends to incorporate best practices into solutions.

• Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate potential risks associated with architectural decisions and cloud migrations.

What you bring

• Experience in architecture modelling, software development, and programming.

• Background in IT solutions architecture with a strong understanding of SAP solution portfolios and key methodologies for efficient deployment and operation.

• Experience working as a solution architect in consulting or close to customers is a plus.

• Familiarity with SAP S/4HANA, SAP CX, SAP Commerce and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is highly desirable.

• Lifecycle Experience: Ideally, experience across the full lifecycle from idea to market, with a focus on integration technologies and end-to-end process chains.

• Leadership and Coordination Skills: Ability to own, lead, and coordinate operational tasks, escalations, and process improvements.

• Collaboration Focus: Experience in aligning delivery architecture with enterprise architecture teams and working closely with cross-functional teams to achieve business outcomes.

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Desired Attributes:

• Results-Oriented: A results-driven mindset focused on delivering high-quality cloud and SAP solutions within project timelines.

• Leadership Qualities: Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and motivate teams toward project goals.

• Multitasking Ability: Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced project environment and manage multiple priorities.

Meet Your Team

You will join the Architecture team in the CE3 unit in the Channels and Cross Engineering – Customer & Partner – CPIT organisation. It’s a new dynamic unit made of high-performing group of professionals dedicated to driving innovation and excellence across delivery units and board areas. Our diverse team collaborates on complex, cross-functional projects with significant organizational impact. If you enjoy working in a thriving environment with a heterogeneous team, passionate about delivering high-class solution architectures that bridge multiple areas of the business, this is the team for you.

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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

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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
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.

Requisition ID: 409858  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
 

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