Expert Architecture Advisor

SAP; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

A global software leader in Dubai is seeking a Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor to connect business strategy with technology solutions. The role involves providing architectural guidance, facilitating customer engagements, and ensuring alignment with SAP's offerings. Candidates should have over 10 years of IT architecture experience and possess relevant certifications. This position emphasizes strategic advisory skills and the ability to influence customer outcomes positively. Flexibility and collaboration are key aspects of this role.

Benefits

Flexible working models

Collaborative team environment

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 10 years as Solution IT Architect or Enterprise Architect.
• Experience in leading enterprise architecture for large customers.
• Expert knowledge on end-to-end processes and solution matching.

Responsibilities

• Bridge business strategy and solutions through architecture design.
• Advise customers on technology adoption and business results.
• Develop target architecture and customer roadmap.

Skills

Solution IT Architect experience

Excellent presentation and communication skills

Knowledge of SAP reference architecture

Understanding of industry-specific business models

Ability to align with customer IT organizations

Education

Bachelor equivalent

TOGAF Certification

Job description

Overview

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. 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.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor is responsible for bridging the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting a business and solution architecture and roadmap design at the enterprise level.

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor provides thought leadership on new technologies and recommendations to adopt for business results, supporting customers to develop the future state architectures and roadmaps to meet feasibility requirements and business goals. The Advisor continuously maintains the alignment between roadmap execution and target architecture to complete business transformation.

ENGAGEMENT SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor possesses advanced/expert level knowledge to connect the dots across the entire SAP and non-SAP landscape, advising customers’ senior leaders and executives towards a strategic future path or architecture. Key responsibilities include:

• Position the value of SAP in line with the customer’s priorities and strategic imperatives
• Execute business and business capability, application architecture, and infrastructure assessment with customers and partners
• Definition and integration of business data, application, and technical architecture domains. Engaging and orchestrating Specialized Architects where required.
• Drive architecture governance and methodologies to ensure the consistency, communication, and cooperation between all domains of architectures
• Lead the target architecture & customer roadmap development ensuring feasibility within the customer landscape
• Align and evolve the Architectures and Roadmaps in line with the customer adoption plan in conjunction with broader customer and SAP architecture teams
• Proactively introduces new capabilities and innovation topics to address specific customer needs and extend the SAP footprint to simplify the customer landscape

ACCOUNT-PLANNING & MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Strategize with the account team to plan for accounts and opportunities, including identifying target opportunities, supporting setting goals, and developing action plans
• Proficiency in adopting a challenger mindset, challenging customers’ assumptions and providing insights that reshape their thinking and drive value-driven solutions
• Consult/Advise Customer and S.I. on the best way to implement the To-Be architecture and deploy a successful adoption plan

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Proficiency in understanding the customer’s industry and specific business model to identify new opportunities, developing sales strategies, and executing plans to drive growth and revenue
• Build sound working customer relationships and establish oneself as trusted advisor

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 10 years as Solution IT Architect or Enterprise Architect
• Demonstrates experience in leading the enterprise architecture and cloud roadmap for large customers or engagements
• Knowledge of the capabilities of the SAP reference architecture or similar reference architectures
• Experience with creating and managing enterprise-wide formal frameworks and supporting repositories
• Ability to align and effectively communicate with customer IT and business organizations
• Expert knowledge/expertise on end-to-end processes/solution matching
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• English: proficient
• Business-level language: expert

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor equivalent: Minimum requirement
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certification or similar SAP certification or industry certification: minimum requirement
• Work in Large IT departments, Consulting firm, or from leading software vendors as Enterprise Architect: Preferred
• Experience in IT application sales support for Business Application and/or IT technologies (Presales or similar roles)
• Experience in large-scale solution implementations or software product development (preferably SAP)
• Masters equivalent: optional

#SAPCSCareers

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. 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 need 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. 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, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 421824 • Work Area: Information Technology • Expected Travel: 0 - 10% • Career Status: Professional • Employment Type: Regular Full Time • Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

Required Experience:

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