Job Description
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. The position is available for all SAP Locations in Germany. ABOUT THE TEAM - Public & EnergyBusiness Transformation & Architecture (BT&A) is the management and architecture consulting unit within SAP Customer Services & Delivery board area, assisting customers to benefit from technology and digitalization in their businesses. We are committed to ideate business innovations, develop solutions and to turn novel ideas into business results. Our mission is to enhance technical implementations to business transformations with sustainable impact.Within BT&A, our regional SAP Enterprise Architects – RISE team plays a crucial role in supporting industry-specific transformation journeys. In the public sector, digitalization means more than efficiency—it enables governments to increase transparency, empower citizens, and improve service delivery while meeting regulatory, data sovereignty, and social responsibility requirements. In the utilities sector, transformation is key to achieving sustainability goals, regulatory compliance, and operational modernization. We help utilities providers reimagine everything from grid management to customer billing with scalable SAP solutions that enable smart energy use and a greener future.If you're inspired by innovation, resilience, and driving mission-critical change - whether in public administration or energy sector - BT&A offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact across essential sectors of society. YOUR FUTURE ROLEAs a Principal Enterprise Architect RISE for Public & Energy - MU Germany (f/m/d), you guide customers digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. You will utilize internal and external available customer specific information to develop a comprehensive reference Enterprise Architecture – RISE Model for our customers aligning with their business objectives. In your role you work with a variety of experts in a multi-disciplinary team of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You increase the customer’s value by driving activities such as: Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practicesProvide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP‘s standard cloud qualitiesIdentify innovation use cases that benefit our customers strategic and operational objectivesAdvising customer management on architecture and transformation activitiesIdentifying and mitigating technical adoption risksAligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy accelerating BTP adoption
Responsibilities + Skills
Experience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally incl. support and optimizationS/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experienceProfessional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF) as a plusSolid knowledge of SAPs strategy, the latest product portfolio and their impact on businessSolid understanding of project management methodologies and toolsStrong customer focus and ability to build and maintain customer relationshipsStrong communication skills also regarding senior management and C-levels, both within an IT team and across business functions
Education
Bachelor or Masters degree in Business Administration, Informatics or any comparable education9-11+ yrs. of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and work as enterprise architect and/or transformation advisorProven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmapPublic & enery industry know how
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