Expert Architecture Advisor

TN United Kingdom; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor to guide clients through their cloud transformation journey. This role focuses on aligning customer strategies with SAP solutions, ensuring a seamless transition to cloud-based architectures. You will work closely with clients, leveraging your expertise to craft tailored solutions that drive business success. Join a passionate team dedicated to enhancing customer experiences and unlocking the full potential of technology. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative team environment

Employee recognition programs

Qualifications

• Extensive experience within the SAP eco-system.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/PaaS models.
• Proven experience in Enterprise Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements with customer stakeholders to achieve objectives.
• Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition.
• Drive solution expansion by highlighting value.

Skills

Business Transformation

Customer Orientation

Strategic Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Business Architecture

Transformation Roadmap Design & Management

Clean Core Strategy

Storytelling

Design Thinking

Technology Innovation

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent degree

Tools

SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio

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02.05.2025

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Job Description:

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 choosefrom.

What you'll do:

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor (AA) works closely with SAP’s Sales organization and the Partner ecosystem to define the account strategy. AAs work with the customer to understand their business and technical needs.

We then bridge the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant SAP solutions by working with the customer Architects to understand their current AS-IS landscape and in partnership with them create To-Be business and solution architectures and an enterprise level transformation.

This close relationship ensures that the AA becomes the trusted advisors of the customer to achieve their desired to-be SAP-based Enterprise Architecture.

As an Architecture Advisor (AA), you will focus on the following key areas:

• Lead the business and technical solution engagements with the customer stakeholders, crafting the overall narrative to the customer of how to attain their objectives with SAP.
• Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as footprint expansion
• Support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team. Identifying necessary expert resources needed to address customer specific requirements
• Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organizations, the customer, and partners.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer.

• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
• Understand customer’s business process map and business model with industry reference architecture focus.
• Understand customer’s current enterprise landscape and future needs.
• Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) leveraging standard cloud solutions.

Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap.

• Drive business architecture and capability mapping to high level solution design.
• Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture.
• Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition (business and application focus).
• Drive customer cloud/hybrid transformation roadmap definition with focus on standard cloud application and technology focus

Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer.

• Align transformation roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption.
• Support transformation roadmap governance & adaptation based on evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions.
• Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio
• Evangelise strategic SAP innovation areas and strategy such as: AI and Data Strategy

What you bring:

• Extensive experience within the SAP eco-system, able to demonstrate a deep understanding of what it takes to successfully transform a business with SAP. Typically with a PreSales or Consulting organization.
• Considerable experience with software/IT organizations as an IT Architect or Enterprise Architect and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Presales, Adoption/Consumption, Consulting or Business Development, demonstrating successful outcomes over multiple years.
• Represent SAP as the trusted advisor within SAP and/or the market.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Proven track record of success in the selected industry area, if required.
• Proven leadership and project management experience.
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
• Always learning: a growth mindset in this role is essential, not just for the SAP solutions but to maintain a close understanding and appreciation of competitive solutions
• Fluency in English: demonstrating excellent presentation and communication skills; any other language is an asset.
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
• Design Thinking experience in customer facing engagements is desirable
• TOGAF or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using the SAP Enterprise Architecture Methodology tools is an added value for candidates

Meet your team:

At the core of our mission, the Architecture Advisor team is dedicated to guiding our customers through their cloud business transformation journey. Our experts work collaboratively to deliver tailored, consistent value to every customer, ensuring they achieve the best results from their cloud investments.

We are passionate about enhancing the end-to-end customer experience. By focusing on improving the adoption and consumption of SAP’s products and services, we help customers unlock the full potential of their technology solutions.

What sets our team apart is our deep understanding of each customer’s unique industry landscape. By speaking our customers' language, we build stronger foundations of trust and credibility. This allows us to engage with them in more meaningful ways, addressing industry-specific needs, challenges, and opportunities. The better we understand our customers, the easier it becomes to foster lasting relationships that drive real business transformation.

Whether helping customers overcome obstacles or identifying new growth avenues, the Architecture Advisor team is committed to delivering value every step of the way.

Note: Multiple openings are available for this position.

Skills you’ll use:

Professional Skills

Business Transformation

Customer Orientation

Strategic Thinking

Complex Problem Solving

Tech Industry & SAP General Skills

Technology Innovation

SAP Cloud Suite Portfolio

RISE and GROW with SAP

Role Specific Skills

Business Architecture

Transformation Roadmap Design & Management

Clean Core Strategy

Storytelling

Design Thinking

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.