Cloud Architect and Advisor

 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.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. The mission of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) organization is to maximize customer success by taking over responsibility for smooth end to end operations for their SAP implementations and lowering customers total cost of operation. SAP Enterprise Cloud Services manages delivery & operations for all the private cloud components of RISE with SAP.

As a Cloud Architect & Advisor (CAA), we are looking for an accomplished SAP Technical Architect to support the growth in our business and delivering high-quality results consistently for our customers. Working in a critical team in ECS, you will be contributing to SAP's Global strategy of helping customers with adoption of SAP S/4HANA on their path to the Intelligent Enterprise.

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) supports customers throughout their cloud transformation and SAP S/4HANA adoption journey. We run the Intelligent Enterprise so they can be an Intelligent Enterprise. Our portfolio of SAP Private Cloud and SAP Cloud Application Services turns SAP products into a solution-as-a-service on customer’s preferred infrastructure, including Hyperscalers, as one SAP.

This role will be part of an existing ECS Cloud Architecture & Advisory team in EMEA. Being part of SAP’s Customer Service & Delivery organization, we are looking for highly motivated and customer-focused SAP Cloud Architect to strengthen our Enterprise Cloud Services team. The Cloud Architect & Advisor (CAA) acts as a primary point of contact for all technical topics from customer perspective and is working closely with our customer facing teams and delivery teams.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Cloud Architect & Advisor (CAA), you will be responsible for the technical foundation of RISE with SAP engagements. This includes topics like hyperscalers, infrastructure, network, or private cloud deployment. You will present the offering, run workshops, and be the primary point of contact for our customers in these regards.

Internally, you will be collaborating both with our sales teams and different technical domain experts to ensure that all relevant customer questions are correctly addressed and answered. You will hand over your infrastructure design and the customer specific parameters to the build teams for them to deploy the RISE systems.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 5+ years of customer facing experience
• High proficiency in customer communications and presentations
• Good understanding of technical capabilities of at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Understanding of data center capabilities like high availability or disaster recovery is a benefit
• Good understanding of the entire platform stack (storage, virtualization, hardware, networks etc.)
• Good understanding of SAP technologies (releases, platform interdependencies etc.)
• Experience with implementation and operating SAP solutions.
• SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills are a benefit
• Foundations knowledge of cybersecurity
• Self-sufficient worker and strong team player
• Affinity to technical topics, willingness to tackle aspects outside the comfort zone and to continuously learn
• Fluency in English is a must, any other language an asset.

MEET YOUR TEAM

Cloud Architecture & Advisory is an integral part of the Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) organization. ECS drives and develops the RISE portfolio to cater to our customers’ needs and operates most of the RISE landscapes.

The Cloud Architects & Advisors are a group of highly motivated and customer focused people, which validate the technical feasibility of RISE deals during the presales phase. This is crucial to ensure all customers get landscapes that match their requirements.

​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.

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: 413313  | Work Area: Sales Support  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.