Services Architecture Senior Specialist

 We help the world run better

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. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. 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.

The Services Architecture Sr Specialist

• Acts as an advisor to the customer’s CIO / IT-department with technology- / operations focus, covering parts of the IT-department of a customer end-to-end.
• Try to understand the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically, helps to 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.
• Helps operationalizing the customers’ IT-strategies, helps identifying relevant components, approaches, input required, etc. to derive the best possible technology / operations approach for the customer combining public and private cloud as well as On Premise scenarios. Is challenging existing approaches/concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome.
• Takes a step back if required and helps re-defining the concept to come to the best solution (agility in solution design)
• Helps clarifying existing expectations with customer’s technology/ operations experts and stakeholders; helps creating 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.
• Helps ensuring overall integration during the implementation project.

Specifically, the Senior Technology Architect…

• Helps defining IT strategies, -governance and –architecture based on state-of-the art technology; helps creating buy-in with the customer and works with other SAP-experts on the implementation.
• Helps defining 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 implement a state-of-the-art Technology-Innovation Roadmap.
• Knows several 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.

Experience & Language Requirements

• University degree resp. adequate experience
• Minimum Job Experience: 6-8 Years
• Thereof in a relevant position at SAP: 3-5 Years
• Fluency in English and Spanish
• Other languages are an asset.

​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.

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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.
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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: 409470  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.