Chief Enterprise Architect - RISE (Brazil)

SAP SE; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 3.660.000 - 6.234.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A global software leader is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to guide customers through their cloud journey and provide enterprise architecture guidance. The ideal candidate will have over 15 years of experience in customer experience roles and a strong understanding of SAP solutions. This position fosters a culture of inclusion, prioritizes professional growth, and is committed to ethical leadership. Located in São Paulo, Brazil, this role offers a competitive compensation package.

Serviços

Constant learning and skill growth

Great benefits

Flexible working models

Qualificações

• 15+ years in customer experience roles with end-to-end architectural design.
• In-depth knowledge of SAP Solution Portfolio and Framework.
• Extensive experience with Business Technology Platform components.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.

Responsabilidades

• Guide customers through their cloud journey.
• Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP Methodology.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy.
• Act as a trusted advisor for CIOs on cloud environments.

Conhecimentos

Enterprise Architecture guidance

Cloud Strategy

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Formação académica

Professional training and certification in SAP Enterprise Architecture

Ferramentas

SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)

S/4HANA

SAP LeanIX

SAP Signavio

Descrição da oferta de emprego

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Meet Your Team:

Join our dynamic SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. We lead digital transformation using cutting‑edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. Our mission is to simplify and modernise IT landscapes, reducing complexity and operational costs, while fostering innovation and efficiency to support evolving business needs.

What you’ll do:

• Guide customers through their cloud journey, with special focus on adopt and derive phases, starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
• Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP Methodology and Clean Core principles, ensuring that every customer benefits from SAP’s cloud qualities.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.
• Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission‑critical processes.
• Support adoption, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
• Enhance impact on customer’s business goals by driving value realisation through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities.
• Bundle customer expectations and align business goals into a tangible enterprise‑level success plan, using the value framework to monitor and validate KPIs and value drivers, enabling value‑driven business transformation.
• Through governance, involve and engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organisation to enhance value realisation, establish a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams, enhancing customer proximity and experience.
• Support the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice by coordinating and championing key initiatives and programmes in strategic areas (e.g. Clean Core, AI), to accelerate customer adoption and build flagship reference cases.
• Drive the operating model for these initiatives and programmes by aligning and engaging team members and stakeholders, tracking and reporting progress, organising and leading regular cadences, identifying new opportunities and blockers, and proposing and following up on actions to accelerate results and ensure strategic goals are achieved.

What You Bring:

• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• In‑depth knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
• Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4HANA applications.
• Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Knowledge of SAP’s Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI‑driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
• Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager).

Must-Have Requirements:

• 15+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end‑to‑end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities.
• S/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management and C‑levels, both within an IT team and across business functions.
• Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen.
• Knowledge of on‑premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
• Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional‑Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF).

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 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 realise their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

Compensation Range Transparency

SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step towards demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualised 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 674,200 – 1,148,200 (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.

We are ethical and compliant

Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role‑models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behaviour towards all stakeholders.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

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