Senior Architecture Advisor

We help the world run better

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.

We help the world run better

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.

We help the world run better

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.

What you'll do:

The Customer Advisory Architecture Advisor (AA) works closely with SAP’s Sales organisation and the Partner ecosystem to define the account strategy. AAs are responsible for bridging the gap between the customer’s business strategy and relevant solutions through crafting the to-be business and solution architectures and designing a transformation roadmap at the enterprise level to facilitate the customer’s adoption of Cloud-based architectures. They are trusted advisors for the customer to achieve their desired to-be SAP-based Enterprise Architecture.

As an Architecture Advisor (AA), you will focus on the following key areas:

• Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities
• Support the assessment of customer strategy and current solution usage from SAP to develop potential areas of opportunity for solution adoption & consumption, including SAP Business Suite footprint expansion.
• Engage with customers to support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team.
• Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organisations, the customer, and partners.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership as required.
• Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer
• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership and innovation positioning of the full SAP Business Suite.
• Understand the customer’s business process map and business model with industry reference and an architecture focus​.
  Understand the customer’s current enterprise landscape and anticipate future needs.
• Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) ,leveraging cloud solutions
• Building Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap
• Drive the creation of business architecture outputs from capability mapping through to solution definition.
• Ensure IT feasibility of the business capabilities mapping to SAP solution architecture. ​
• Support customer cloud transformation roadmap definition (business and application focus)​.
• Drive customer cloud/hybrid transformation roadmap definition (standard cloud application and technology focus)​.
• Being a Trusted Architecture Advisor for the Customer
• Align living roadmap with current adoption/solution consumption.
  Support living roadmap governance & adaptation based on the evolution of customer needs and SAP solutions.
• Drive solution expansion by highlighting value & linkages to the broader SAP Portfolio

What you bring:

• Considerable experience with software/IT organisations as an IT Architecture or Enterprise Architecture Advisor and/or specific expertise with software solutions through Solution Management, Sales, Presales, Adoption/Consumption, Consulting or Business Development, demonstrating successful outcomes over multiple years.
• The ability to represent SAP as the trusted advisor within your assigned customers and broader market.
• Deep knowledge of SAP Cloud and knowledge of Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven professional networks in the Brisbane market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Proven track record of success in Utilities Industry is required.
• Ability to lead through influence and consultative selling experience.
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
  

Fluency in English; any other language is an asset.
Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) is ideal, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
TOGAF or SAPIEA-10 certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates

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​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 and more equitable world.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 424949 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.