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What You’ll Do : PreSales Enterprise Architect
The Enterprise Architect provides proactive executive advisory services addressing elements of business process and technology innovation. You will provide a holistic view of digital transformation by bridging the gap between business capabilities and technology enablers to drive strategic business outcomes. As an Enterprise Architect you will work with some of the world’s most dynamic and innovative customers supporting the design, development, and deployment of future state platforms.
- Bring passion for emerging technology capabilities necessary to extend or defend competitive differentiation.
- Earn trusted advisor status to our internal SAP account teams tasked with helping customers purchase, adopt, consume, and expand the use of the broad portfolio of SAP solutions.
- Be a strategic thinker, curious, engaging and collaborative with SAP customers, business partners and SAP teams.
Core areas of focus:
- Support Customer Success
- Collaborate with customers and key stakeholders to understand their current state environment and identify areas of improvements across business and IT
- Establish future state architectures and shape a clear and achievable roadmap for strategic and key customers
- Leverage, apply, and grow industry and technology knowledge and expertise
- Lead customer conversations and deliver at executive and leadership levels
- South Market Unit support and leadership
- Drive and help shape engagements by advising leadership and sales teams to ensure the right architecture design is delivered to the customer
- Differentiate SAP technology and capabilities by industry throughout the sales cycle to deliver winning results
- Support post-sale advisory and Executive Steering Committee meetings for top accounts
- Collaborate with partners across the SAP ecosystem and contribute to a broad community and network
- Build and nurture customer references
What you Bring:
- Industry Knowledge – Demonstrated expertise in one or more industries
- Executive Presence - Strong business communication skills, comfortable presenting to C-level executives, ability to clearly articulate product strategy succinctly.
- Accomplished Leader – Ability to develop a vision, collaborate with other team members and drive the completion of work efforts.
- SAP Solution Expert – Extensive knowledge of the SAP solution portfolio and its application within the end-to-end business capabilities.
- Technical Prowess – Strength/expertise surrounding the SAP technology stack and the ability to incorporate hyper-scaler reference architecture, integration techniques and 3rd party products.
- Solution Lifecycle Experience – Ideally managed a complex SAP solution landscape implementation at an SAP customer.
- Cloud Architecture Competence – Strong working knowledge of SaaS and IaaS design, deployment and implementation of cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments.
- Lifelong Learner – Passion for self-development to gain in-depth understanding of the SAP solution portfolio, industry trends, executive presence, and architectural guidelines.
- SAP Community Involvement – Passion for sharing with your peers and customers via knowledge sharing (industry specific events, user groups, SAP insider, TechEd, SAPPHIRE).
Additionally:
- Experience in building and retaining strong customer relationships
- Experience in diverse technology landscapes and process/technology integration issues
- Solution selling acumen – ability to differentiate in complex sales
- Will do attitude
- Passion for how technology can be used to enable strategic initiatives.
- Minimum 8-10 years in a relevant strategic consulting, advisory or customer role
- Experience in Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF or relevant certification preferred
- Experience with cloud computing platforms and infrastructure providers preferred
- Residence in the Southeast United States preferred.
Meet Your Team
- Advisory profile with ~ 50% travel
- This is an elite team with high visibility and exposure within SAP and Customer leadership
- We:
- Learn Voraciously
- Share Manically
- Architect the Future
- Flexible work environment
- Culture of trust and teamwork
- SAP is an equal opportunity employer
We build breakthroughs together
SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.
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.
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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.
Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 175,200 - 378,800 USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.
Requisition ID: 376604 | Work Area: Presales | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid