Principal Enterprise Architect RISE

We help the world run better At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and we 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.

Principal Enterprise Architect – RISE

Meet Your Team Join our dynamic SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. We lead digital transformation using cutting‑edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. Our mission is to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reduce complexity and operational costs, and foster innovation and efficiency to support evolving business needs.

As a Principal Enterprise Architect you will develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture model for our customers, aligning with their enterprise goals, and collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner. You will drive value realization, solution adoption, and lead activities such as:

• Guide customers through their cloud journey (with a special focus on adopt and derive) starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
• Provide enterprise architecture 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 or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness.
• Support adoption by identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
• Enhance impact on customers’ business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities.
• Bundle customer expectations and align business goals in a tangible enterprise‑level success plan to monitor and validate KPIs & value drivers, enabling value‑driven business transformation with a value framework.
• Serve as a trusted advisor ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission‑critical processes.
• Through governance involve and engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organization to enhance value realization, establishing a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams, enhancing proximity and experience.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption, and promote SAP best practices.

• 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 Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4
  
  HANA applications.
• Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Knowledge of SAP’s Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI‑driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
• Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers, and business case creation (e.g., VLM – SAP Value Lifecycle Manager).

• 10 years in customer‑facing roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect) with experience in end‑to‑end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• S/4
  
  HANA technical and/or SAP S/4
  
  HANA…