Architecture Advisory Expert

Job Description

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.

Lead the Future of technology Architecture – Join Our Architecture Advisory team

Join a high-performing team at SAP where Architecture Advisors play a pivotal role in driving meaningful business transformation. In this role, you will act as a trusted partner to customers, providing architecture stewardship that bridges their business strategy with SAP’s solution capabilities to deliver measurable business outcomes. You will work closely with executives and stakeholders to shape transformation roadmaps, guide enterprise architecture decisions, and ensure that innovation translates into real business value. As part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, you will help customers navigate complex technology landscapes, unlock new opportunities through SAP’s platform and AI innovations, and accelerate their journey to becoming intelligent, resilient enterprises. If you are passionate about combining strategic thinking, enterprise architecture, and customer impact, this is an opportunity to influence large-scale transformations while working alongside some of the most talented professionals in the industry.

About the Role:

As an SAP Architecture Advisor, you will play a strategic role in guiding customers through complex business and technology transformations. You will act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, helping align customer business strategy with SAP’s solution capabilities to deliver measurable business outcomes. Through strong architecture stewardship, you will shape enterprise transformation roadmaps, ensuring that SAP solutions are positioned within a coherent and future-ready architecture. Working within a high-performance team, you will collaborate with sales, presales, and delivery experts to provide strategic guidance across the customer lifecycle—from vision and planning to value realization. This role requires both strategic thinking and hands-on architecture expertise to help customers modernize their technology landscapes, adopt cloud innovations, and unlock value from SAP’s platform, data, and AI capabilities. The Architecture Advisor is instrumental in building trusted relationships, influencing long-term transformation programs, and ensuring customers derive sustainable value from their SAP investments.

Key Responsibilities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to customers, connecting business strategy with SAP solution capabilities to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Provide architecture stewardship across the customer’s SAP landscape, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and transformation goals.
• Shape and articulate business and IT transformation roadmaps that leverage SAP’s cloud, platform, data, and AI innovations.
• Identify capability gaps and recommend SAP-led solutions that enable innovation, efficiency, and growth.
• Support customer engagements such as strategy workshops, architecture reviews, and transformation planning sessions.
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Solution Experts, and Presales teams to shape solution strategies, develop Bills of Material (BoMs), phased transformation roadmaps, and solution architectures aligned to customer priorities.
• Partner with Industry Advisors, Value Advisory, and Customer Success teams to connect industry insights, business value frameworks, and SAP capabilities into compelling customer transformation strategies.
• Lead strategic architecture discussions and executive engagements with CIOs, enterprise architects, and business leaders.
• Support the creation of customer-centric proposals and strategic deal shaping, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with SAP’s long-term innovation roadmap.
• Utilize LeanIX enterprise architecture tools to create and maintain key customer architectural artefacts, including capability maps, application landscapes, transformation roadmaps, and technology reference architectures.
• Contribute to strategic customer engagements, including executive workshops, architecture reviews, and “Art of the Possible” sessions that help customers envision future-state capabilities.
• Ensure strong alignment between business value, industry context, and technology architecture across customer transformation initiatives.
• Ensure solution integrity and architectural consistency across complex customer environments.
• Contribute to a high-performing advisory team by sharing best practices, industry insights, and thought leadership.

Experience
• Proven experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or strategic technology advisory roles within large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of business transformation, cloud adoption, and enterprise IT modernization strategies.
• Experience working with SAP solutions and platforms, with the ability to translate technology capabilities into tangible business value.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C-level executives and senior stakeholders.
• Experience collaborating across sales, presales, and delivery organizations in complex enterprise engagements.
• Implementation or program delivery experience in large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of one or more industries such as Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Mill Products & Mining, Utilities or Retail is an added advantage. Flexibility to work in a mix of Industries is highly valued.
• Domain expertise in at least one core business capability area, such as Finance, Spend Management, Asset Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain, or Customer Experience, is an advantage.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to articulate complex architecture concepts in a business-relevant way.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools, including LeanIX, for developing architecture artefacts and transformation roadmaps.
• TOGAF certification or equivalent enterprise architecture credentials are considered an added advantage.

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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Requisition ID: 449214 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 30% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid