Services Architecture Senior Specialist

Job Description

Requisition ID: 451425
Work Area: Customer Service and Support
Expected Travel: 0 - 80%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time
Career Level: T3-3
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Original Posting Date: 04/13/26

Job Title: Services Architecture Senior Specialist

Location: Houston, TX

Work Model: Hybrid Work Model

Purpose and Objective:

SAP America, Inc. seeks a Services Architecture Senior Specialist at our Houston, TX location to act as a customer advisor on appropriate business-driven IT-roadmaps and architecture designs based on SAP’s offerings and cloud strategy.

Expectations and Tasks:

Help to operationalize the customers’ business strategies, identifies relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and helping our customers reap the increasingly differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions. Challenge existing solutions/approaches/concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome. Take a step back if required and re-define the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design). Help to clarify expectations from various stakeholders, especially in very difficult cases; create a solution which integrates diverse points of views and serves as a starting point for future SAP business. Collaborate with customers, partners and SAP teams for the best possible implementation. Drive knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Document successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available at SAP internally. Collaborate and co-innovate with the respective development teams. Fully understand and leverage the capabilities of SAP’s technology platform(s). Understand and use various Architectural patterns – e.g. micro-service based architecture, reactive architecture, cloud native etc.

Education and Occupational Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:

Experience must include four (4) years involving each of the following:

• Installing, configuring and administering SAP HANA Database and SAP NetWeaver Technologies;
• Operations incidents and change management related to SAP applications and infrastructure to ensure business continuity;
• SAP Platform Technology, Landscape design in Technical Planning, Installations, Cloud migration, and OS/DB Migrations;
• Unix, Windows, and Linux Operating Systems;
• SAP Hana, Oracle, and MS SQL Server database administration;
• Performance tuning, User Management, and System Copies with various SAP products;
• Troubleshooting, analyzing, and resolving technical problems;
• Installation, Configuration, upgrading SAP S/4HANA;
• Configuring, installing, and integrating SAP cloud products with IBP and Ariba; and
• Involvement in the planning of implementation projects, including sizing, scoping, strategizing client or landscape, and HANA High Availability/HANA Disaster Recovery Strategy, with minimal supervision at transaction level.

Travel: Position does require up to 80% domestic and international travel to SAP offices and customer sites to implement SAP solutions.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the SAP Internal Employee Referral Policy.

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