Senior​/Principal Enterprise Architect; f​/m​/d; Austria

Position: Senior/Principal Enterprise Architect (f/m/d) - Austria
Requisition d Date:
Sep 30, 2026

Work Area:
Consulting and Professional Services

Career Status: Professional

Employment Type:

Regular Full Time Expected Travel: 0 - 60%

Location:

Vienna, AT, 1021 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. What you’ll doAs an Enterprise Architect (f/m/d), you will develop and maintain a comprehensive end-to-end enterprise architecture vision for assigned customers, aligned with their business strategy and transformation goals. You will act as a trusted transformation partner for executive stakeholders and collaborate closely with account teams to drive value-driven architecture execution.

You will lead and support activities such as:

Guide customers through their enterprise and cloud transformation journey, from architecture vision to execution and realization, leveraging enterprise archetypes and scalable delivery models.

Provide enterprise architecture guidance based on SAP’s Reference Architecture Framework and Clean Core principles, ensuring customers fully benefit from SAP cloud qualities.

Act as a strategic advisor for CIOs and other CxO stakeholders, driving architecture effectiveness and decision-making.

Support solution adoption by identifying, mitigating, and governing architectural and technical risks across hybrid and cloud landscapes.

Drive value realization through solution adoption, capability consumption, and measurable KPIs aligned to customer business outcomes.

Consolidate customer expectations and business goals into a tangible enterprise-level success plan, tracking value drivers and KPIs using SAP’s value framework.

Serve as a trusted advisor ensuring secure, reliable, and extensible architectures for mission-critical business processes.

Establish effective architecture governance, engaging stakeholders across customer, partner, and SAP teams to ensure alignment on business goals, value drivers, and architectural standards.

Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption, and promote SAP architectural best practices across solution areas.

What You Bring Experience delivering enterprise-wide business transformation initiatives, aligning business strategy with target architecture and multi-year roadmaps.

Strong knowledge of SAP’s solution portfolio and the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, covering business, application, integration, data, and technology architecture.

Experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (application development, automation, integration, data & analytics, AI) and SAP S/4

HANA landscapes.

Solid understanding of SAP cloud strategy and Clean Core principles, with experience using SAP LeanIX, SAP Signavio, SAP Cloud ALM or similar.

Knowledge of SAP Business AI roadmap and the ability to identify relevant use cases.

Experience with integration and extensibility concepts and advisory methodologies within SAP environments.

Familiarity with SAP’s value framework, including value drivers and business case creation (e.g., SAP Value Lifecycle Manager).Must-Have Requirements
10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, IT architecture, or related customer-facing roles, with responsibility for end-to-end architectural design in complex hybrid landscapes(scope, portfolio size, and level of autonomy vary by seniority).Strong knowledge of the…