Principal Retail Architect

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.

As a Principal Retail Architect, you will guide customers’ digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies—advancing the GROW with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP’s innovation and AI adoption. You will develop and deliver transformation services aligned with customer business objectives and increase customer value by driving activities such as:

· Guide customers through their cloud journey (with 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, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.

· Enhance impact on customer’s 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 to enable value-driven business transformation with 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, establish a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams, enhancing customer proximity and experience.

· Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.

· Work in a senior capacity as a Retail & Fashion Consultant in SAP

· Develop reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practices and references

· Provide architecture guidance using SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure customers benefit from SAP’s standard cloud qualities

What you bring

We are looking for dynamic, advisory-minded colleagues who can drive standards, organizational change, and innovation.

· Professionally qualified Retail & Fashion with 5+ years of SAP Retail consulting experience

· Strong understanding of Retail & Fashion processes.

· Good understanding of functional integration with other SAP modules

· Solid understanding of project management methodologies and tools

· Strategic thinking mindset, continuous learning, and business acumen

· 5+ end-to-end process implementation cycles

· Strong customer focus; ability to build and maintain relationships

· Excellent communication and presentation skills

· Strong teamwork and long-term relationship building

· Flexibility and ability to adapt quickly in a fast-growth environment

· Certification in the core area

· Excellent English language skills

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: 450638 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid