Data Architect - Global Delivery Hub

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What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

The Data Architect plays a key role in designing and delivering modern data architectures that support analytics, AI, and business transformation initiatives. You will help position SAP BDC as the central enterprise data layer and ensure it integrates effectively with industry-standard platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, and hyperscaler data platforms.

In this role, you are responsible for the development of data architecture designs, own roadmap creation, and recommend technology choices, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with customer requirements. You will recommend architectural standards and governance models and support the reduction of technical debt across data and analytics landscapes at customers.

You will collaborate closely with senior architects, SAP product teams, partners, and customer project teams (including customer senior management) throughout the delivery lifecycle—responsible for solution design, validating integrations, assisting with issue analysis, and ensuring architectural consistency.

Through strong communication, documentation, and analytical skills, you will help customers adopt SAP BDC effectively, modernize their data platforms, and accelerate outcomes in analytics and AI programs.

Strong architectural and hands on understanding of modern data and analytics platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Big Query, Azure/AWS/GCP data services, streaming/event architectures, Palantir and Open Source technologies, including the Apache ecosystem)

Good knowledge of SAP data platforms including BDC, Datasphere, SAC, BW/4

HANA, and HANA Cloud.

Experience designing data models, integration patterns, and analytical data pipelines.

Working knowledge of data governance fundamentals: lineage, metadata management, MDM, lifecycle management, and compliance considerations.

Ability to translate business needs into data architecture requirements and communicate them clearly to technical teams.

Strong problem-solving, documentation, stakeholder engagement, and storytelling skills.

Comfortable working in complex environments and supporting architectural discussions and trade-off decisions.

Responsible for the design of customer-specific data architectures using SAP BDC and complementary non-SAP platforms.

Accountable for creation of architecture diagrams, data models, integration patterns, and supporting documentation.

Accountable for developing roadmaps aligned with analytics, AI, and cloud strategies.

Ensure solution components follow architectural standards and best practices.

Data Governance & Standards Implementation

Own and guide implementation of data governance practices including quality checks, lifecycle management, and metadata standards.

Help enforce clean-core and extensibility guardrails for SAP and non-SAP data components.

Participate in architecture reviews, quality gates, and compliance checks.

Delivery Lifecycle Support & Issue Analysis

Support solution delivery teams with technical guidance on data integration, modeling, and platform configuration.

Assist and guide in analyzing performance, data quality, and design issues during projects.

Work collaboratively with SAP colleagues, hyperscaler teams, and technology partners to ensure smooth delivery.

Customer Communication & Alignment

Prepare customer-facing materials and contribute to architecture presentations.

Help clarify requirements, translate business needs into technical specifications, and support stakeholder alignment.

Provide insights on data modernization opportunities that enhance analytics and AI use cases.

Promote usage of SAP BDC for data unification and analytics…