Chief Enterprise Architect

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 well‑being, 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. Meet Your Team We’re part of the SAP Enterprise Architects team within the new SAP Customer Services & Delivery board. We lead digital transformation using cutting‑edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption. Our mission is to simplify and modernize IT landscapes, reducing complexity and operational costs, while fostering innovation and efficiency to support evolving business needs. What You’ll Do Guide customers through their cloud journey, with special focus on adopt and derive phases, starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally. Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP Methodology and Clean Core principles, ensuring that every customer benefits from SAP’s cloud qualities. Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices. Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness. Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission‑critical processes. 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 into a tangible enterprise‑level success plan, using the value framework to monitor and validate KPIs and value drivers, enabling value‑driven business transformation. 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. Support the evolution of the Enterprise Architecture practice by coordinating and championing key initiatives and programs in strategic areas (e.g., Clean Core, AI), to accelerate customer adoption and build flagship reference cases. Drive the operating model for these initiatives and programs by aligning and engaging team members and stakeholders, tracking and reporting progress, organizing and leading regular cadences, identifying new opportunities and blockers, and proposing and following up on actions to accelerate results and ensure strategic goals are achieved. What You Bring Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap. In‑depth knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star). Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4HANA applications. Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM. Knowledge of SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI‑driven solutions to enhance business processes. Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies. Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager). Must‑Have Requirements 15+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end‑to‑end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes. Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities. S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience. Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles. Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management and C‑level, both within an IT team and across business functions. Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen. Knowledge of on‑premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions. Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified Professional‑Enterprise Architect (P_SAPEA_2023), TOGAF). Compensation Range Transparency SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes toward an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 674 200 - 1 148 200 (BRL) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Equal Employment Opportunity Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, etc.), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements. Job Information Seniority level: Not Applicable Employment type: Full-time Job function: Customer Service Industries: Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Business Consulting and Services Requisition ID: Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services Expected Travel: 0–10% Career Status: Executive Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #J-18808-Ljbffr