RISE Enterprise Architect

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. 

Meet Your Team

As part of SAP's RISE Enterprise Architecture team, you will guide customers through their digital transformation journeys — from strategy to execution. You'll help define their North Star Enterprise Architecture, drive Clean Core adoption, and turn architectural visions into tangible business outcomes through SAP solutions.

Join a diverse and passionate team driving meaningful digital transformation across industries.
We collaborate closely with various SAP resources, turning strategy into execution with a focus on innovation, sustainability, and business impact.

In our team, you'll find:

• A collaborative environment that values continuous learning and thought leadership.
• Opportunities to influence SAP's strategic direction and shape customer success stories.
• A culture that celebrates curiosity, creativity, and shared purpose

What you'll do:

As a RISE Enterprise Architect, you will drive the value realization and the solution adoption and lead activities such as:

• Advise and guide customers to future-proof their IT landscapes, simplify, modernize, and accelerate innovation.
• Collaboratively design as-is and target enterprise architecture models
• Champion the Clean Core imperative by reducing complexity, consolidating systems, and streamlining processes.
• Enable full value realization of SAP BTP through integration, extensibility, and process optimization.
• Promote AI capability adoption across the customer organization.
• Act as a trusted advisor across business and IT functions, aligning technology decisions with strategic business goals.
• Develop adoption and success plans, including KPIs, roadmaps, and measurable milestones to accelerate time-to-value.
• Monitor and report business outcomes, ensuring alignment with customer objectives and continuous improvement.
• Provide guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP's cloud qualities. 
• Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO.
• Align customers and partners with SAP's Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.

What You Bring:

Customer Success Manager, Transformation, Architectural & Solution Skills:

• Customer Success Leadership: Ability to define adoption strategies, drive value realization, and influence stakeholders.
• 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 S/4HANA applications.
• Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Outcome Measurement: Track KPIs and deliver actionable insights to demonstrate impact.

Must-Have Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in customer-facing roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect, Customer Engagement, Advisory).
• SAP implementation and transformation experience as a consultant, program director, or internal IT leader.
• Proven track record delivering enterprise business transformations through large-scale application delivery.
• Demonstrated S/4HANA technical and/or functional expertise in active transformation projects.
• Exceptional communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (French/ English), with the ability to engage senior stakeholders across IT and business.
• Empathy and customer-first mindset, anticipating needs and mitigating risks.
• Ability to operate in large, complex organizations with multiple stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Requirements:

• Experience using SAP LeanIX and Signavio for architecture and process documentation.
• Familiarity with SAP cloud solutions.
• BTP Certifications (Integration Suite, Extension Suite, SAP Build).
• Professional certifications such as SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework (LeanIX EAM), SAP Certified Professional–Enterprise Architect (P_SAPEA_2023), or 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 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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