(Senior) Principal Enterprise Architect (f/m/d) - MU Germany

SAP SE; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flexible work models

Job sharing

Customer co-assignments

Zusammenfassung

SAP SE is seeking a Senior/Principal Enterprise Architect to guide customers through digital transformations using SAP technologies, with a focus on RISE with SAP, Clean Core, and AI adoption. You will craft a reference Enterprise Architecture model aligned with business objectives and collaborate with a diverse team of experts.

You will drive architecture guidance, identify innovative use cases, and ensure value realization from SAP cloud offerings while managing risks across complex programs.

Qualifikationen

• Proven enterprise architecture and transformation advisory experience.
• Experience delivering end-to-end SAP implementations.
• Strong communication with C-level stakeholders.
• S/4HANA knowledge and SAP strategy understanding.
• Fluent English and German language skills.

Aufgaben

• Develop reference architecture and transformation plans aligned with SAP best practices.
• Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP and Clean Core principles.
• Identify innovation use cases and advise on the integrated toolchain for transformation efficiency.
• Advise customer management on architecture and transformation activities and mitigate adoption risks.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy to accelerate BTP adoption.

Kenntnisse

Enterprise Architecture

S/4HANA

EA frameworks

Stakeholder management

English & German

Ausbildung

Bachelor or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Informatics or comparable education

Tools

LeanIX EAM

SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework

SAP S/4HANA

Jobbeschreibung

(Senior) Principal Enterprise Architect (f/m/d) - MU Germany

We help the world run better
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.

What to expect

This position can be filled part time.

We support flexible work models, job sharing, and Customer co-assignments.

What you’ll build

As aPrincipal Expert Enterprise Architect (f/m/d),you guide customers digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAPs innovation and AI adoption.

You will utilize internal and external available customer specific information to develop a comprehensive reference Enterprise Architecture – RISE Model for our customers aligning with their business objectives. In your role you work with a variety of experts in a multi-disciplinary of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You increase the customer’s value by driving activities such as:

• Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practices and references
• Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer yields value from SAP‘s standard cloud qualities
• Identify innovation use cases (AI, BDC, CAIA, CIS) that benefit our customers strategic and operational objectives
• Applying and advising the integrated toolchain (ITC / BTM) to drive transformation efficiency
• Advising customer management on architecture and transformation activities
• Identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks
• Aligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy accelerating BTP adoption

What you bring

We are looking for dynamic and advisory minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can effectively drive standards, organizational change and innovation.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree inBusiness Administration,Informaticsorany comparable education
• 9-11+ yrs. of practical experiencefrom a multi-national environment advising management and work as enterprise architect and/or transformation advisor
• Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmaps
• Experience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally incl. support and optimization
• S/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience
• Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plus
• Solid knowledge of SAP’s strategy, the latest product portfolio and their impact on business
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies and tools
• Strong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationships
• Strong communication skills also regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions
• Mindset for strategic thinking, continuous learning and business cumen
• Flexibility and ability to quickly adapt to a new environment, where you can grow fast
• Excellent English and German language skills

Where you belong

Enterprise Architecture is the management and architecture unit within SAP Customer Services & Delivery board area, assisting customers to benefit from technology and digitalization in their businesses to become market leaders. We are committed to ideate business innovations, develop solutions and to turn novel ideas into business results. Our mission is to enhance technical implementations to business transformations with sustainable impact.

Join our dynamic regional SAP Enterprise Architects teams within CS&D, executing on our mission to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reducing complexity and operational costs, while fostering innovations to support evolving business needs for RISE customers.

If the words “innovation”, “agility”, and “personal responsibility” in a multi-disciplinary and international environment appeal to you, then EA is the right place for you!

How we support your growth

• Extended Buddy Concept (6–12 months): Role, Domain, and Community buddies; structured shadowing/reverse shadowing;
• Learning is not optional—it’s embedded. You can achieve up to four certifications each year with structured support.
• Access to the ITC/BTM toolchain, knowledge libraries, reference artifacts, and peer reviews

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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. 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 world.

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