Solution Advisor Senior Specialist / Expert for Platform & Technology (m/f/d) Job

Requisition ID: 264446
Work Area: Sales
Location: Walldorf and every other SAP location in Germany
Expected Travel: 0 - 40%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That’s why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people’s lives.

Summary & Role Information:

The SAP Platform &Technology (P&T) Customer Engagement team is at the forefront in helping our customers leverage various tools in the portfolio. Our team engages with the real decision-makers on the platform such as the technical practitioners that sit in project teams, architecture groups, and our services partners. 

This role is critical to our success as your aim will be to improve the effectiveness and efficiency at driving adoption and consumption for our SAP P&T Cloud customers through strategic advice, technical hands-on expertise, and sharing best practices in a scalable manner, ultimately to secure our renewals business across key topic areas for Platform Integration & Extension, Analytics, HANA Cloud, Datawarehouse Cloud, and Security. 
On a typical day in this role, you will leverage your business and industry knowledge, and functional and technical expertise in direct customer engagements to support our CEEs and their customers successfully adopt and implement the P&T portfolio by providing in-depth subject matter expertise, implementation best practices, reference use cases, and integration scenarios, “To-Be” State architecture, and product know-how. You will collaborate with key stakeholders in other areas of the business and regions, to identify and develop adoption and consumption plays that can be executed at scale. The development of the plays includes both curation of existing assets and development of new assets to share end to end solution best practices and product know-how via blogs, videos, tutorials, hands-on workshops, and other live or in-person events. In addition, you will have the opportunity to share customer feedback and insights gained from strategic and innovative customer projects to product teams and other key stakeholders with the goal of improved adoption and consumption.
Our Team:
The SAP Platform & Technologies Adoption and Consumption CoE team is committed to teamwork and supporting each other and our customer engagement colleagues to ensure success, both individually and as a team. We have a “pay it forward” mentality and are always willing to help out our colleagues. This culture includes sharing best practices and utilizing communication platforms to answer each other’s questions in real-time. We provide opportunities to lead regional and global workstreams that help us scale our knowledge and best practices to contribute to great customer experiences. 
Experience / Role Requirements:
The COE Solution Expert is an End-to-End Solution Architect who is able to follow an “eagle-eye methodology”, i.e. being able to understand and provide architectural guidance on the holistic cloud integration landscape, while at the same time capable of diving deeply into the critical technical know-how to safeguard the implementation projects. A strong T-shape skillset in both SAP Platform and Technology (P&T) cloud solutions and backend solutions (SAP and non-SAP) coupled with a strategic and coaching mindset to help many customers achieve success beyond 1:1 engagements is required.

You will excel in this role if you have:
•    Understanding of an end to end project implementation experiences with the SAP P&T cloud solution portfolio, including SAP Cloud Platform, HANA Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, Data Warehouse Cloud, etc. 
•    Experiences with the SAP P&T on-premises solution portfolio, including SAP HANA, NetWeaver, Business Warehouse, SAP BusinessObjects solutions, etc.
•    Experiences with SAP’s on-premises and SaaS solutions, including SAP S/4HANA, S/4HANA Cloud Edition, SuccessFactors, Ariba, Concur, etc.
•    Development and programming background with Java/J2EE, ABAP, Python,  and Web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SAPUI5 and Fiori.Modeling and administrative experiences with at least one relational database system such as SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or DB2.
•    Knowledge in security and system architecture, including SAML, OAuth, identity management and Single Sign-On solutions, network security, reverse proxy, etc.
•    End-to-end implementation experience in a complex Integration or Extensions project that involves SCP Integration/Extensions capabilities, SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, HANA, or other popular business application solutions.
•    Ability to develop, lead, and work effectively in virtual teams
 

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Additional Locations: Virtual - Germany