Services Architecture Expert (Remote)

Job description / Role

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.
– Enterprise architects play a crucial role in orchestrating the development of a holistic enterprise architecture model that supports established enterprise goals.
– To help companies future-proof their technology environment, we serve them from the select phase where the NorthStar enterprise architecture is being created, to adopt (clean core transformation coming in) to the derive phase (translate the NorthStar enterprise architecture to its different SAP solutions, including BTP realizing the clean core).
– As an enterprise architect, you act as an advisor to the customer to lead them towards the next step of IT services by providing holistic advice and guidance focusing either on an application, an industry, or a technology.

– At least 10 years of work experience in a customer experience role (e.g., program manager, architect, customer engagement, customer advisory).
– Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation through application delivery.
– Experience in end-to-end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
– Proven knowledge of SAP enterprise architecture framework and toolset, SAP integration advisory methodology, SAP extensibility advisory methodology, SAP clean core principles.
– Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at senior manager level both inside an IT team and across business functions.

Nice-to-have requirements/skills:
– Experience in using SAP LeanIX and Signavio as tools to document enterprise architectures and business processes.
– Ideally, proven knowledge of on-premises solutions and its corresponding cloud solutions.
– BTP certifications (e.g., integration suite, extension suite, SAP build).
– Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP enterprise architecture framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP certified professional-enterprise architect, TOGAF) as a plus.

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 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 your request to the recruiting operations team.

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, etc.), 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.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world’s largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP’s product portfolio and extends SAP’s leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.