Sap manufacturing architect - market unit

SAP; Naperville (IL); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP is seeking a BTS Enterprise Architect to lead customer engagements and drive business transformations. This role requires deep knowledge of SAP solutions and excellent leadership skills to guide customers through their cloud journeys. Join a collaborative team that values flexibility and personal development.

Benefits

Flexible working models

Learning and development opportunities

Recognition for individual contributions

Qualifications

• 7+ years of SAP consulting experience with enterprise architecture.
• Proven knowledge of SAP solutions on-premise and in the cloud.
• Understanding of SAP Integration Advisory and Extensibility Methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements during SAP solution evaluations.
• Facilitate architecture discussions with executives.
• Develop strategic roadmaps for enterprise business solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Business Process Expertise

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Negotiation

Strategic Planning

Education

MBA

SAP Certifications (e.g., TOGAF)

Tools

SAP LeanIX

SAP Signavio

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 choose from.

Travel: must be open to up to 60 % travel

BTS Job Description:

Overview: Business Transformation Services (BTS) is the advisory arm of the Global Customer Engagement & Services layer in the SAP Customer Service & Delivery (CSD) area. Global Customer Engagement & Services enhances customer trust in their SAP cloud journey roadmap and shortens their time to value for each step during that journey. It offers a unified engagement experience across all CSD offerings. This helps the customers adopt SAP’s solutions faster and unlock economic value in their SAP and IT investments.

Our team draws on insights and experience from years of SAP customer implementations and helps SAP drive the Customer Lifetime Value journey. The BTS Enterprise Architect role will help the customer during the customer’s evaluation phase of SAP’s solutions and subsequently drive their business transformation by adoption of the solutions. We coordinate with Customer Success colleagues within SAP in various RISE motions (greenfield, conversions and selective data transformations) through Next level Adoption and Consumption (NLAC) and classic Go-to-Market.

This is a key customer leadership role, requiring deep knowledge and understanding of SAP solutions (on-premise/cloud) as well as core business processes and industry best practices. Excellent facilitation and communication skills are essential as is the ability to effectively engage with executive stakeholders, partners, and SAP account teams.

Key Competencies:

• Manage Architecture and process governance on SAP/partner led projects with focus on Customer lifetime value.
• Guide customer teams in using Enterprise Architecture frameworks, establishing governance models, and implementing business process modeling disciplines.
• Proven knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset.
• Work effectively across SAP and customer teams/functions for achievement of business outcomes
• Facilitate collaborative architecture discussions with our customers IT and business executives.
• Develop 3–5-year strategic roadmaps encompassing the evolution of enterprise business solution portfolios from current to future state.
• Leverage industry and SAP reference architectures for successful transformation outcomes

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills - able to lead customer engagements at an executive level.
• Deep business process expertise in at least two or more areas across a customer's value chain
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills; ability to present and discuss strategies and technical information in a manner that establishes rapport, persuades others, and establishes understanding for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to propose implementation and deployment alternatives and estimate the financial impact of various options.
• Strong understanding of Business Technology Platform components and services such as application development and automation, data and analytics, Integration, and AI capabilities.
• Awareness or experience of SAP Integration Advisory Methodology, SAP Extensibility Advisory Methodology, SAP Clean Core principles
• Understanding of SAP LeanIX & SAP Signavio as modeling tools for Enterprise Architectures & Business Processes.
• 7+ years of SAP experience with at least 7+ years consulting experience
• 7+ years of enterprise architecture (business & IT) experience
• Relevant SAP and enterprise architecture certifications such as TOGAF, Open CA (certified architect) are valued.
• MBA preferred.

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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 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 151900 - 340900 USD 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: 394326 | Work Area:Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 60% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid