Architecture Advisor (Expert) (f/m/d) for Service Industries

Date: 04/16/2025
Company: SAP

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. 

All SAP locations in Germany as for example Walldorf (close to Mannheim/Heidelberg), Hamburg, Berlin, Ratingen (close to Düsseldorf), Eschborn (close to Frankfurt), Gerlingen (close to Stuttgart), Hallbergmoos (close to München) are possible.

What you'll do

The Architecture Advisor (AA) (f/m/d) works closely with SAP’s Sales organization 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) (f/m/d) , you will focus on the following key areas:

Account Planning & Architecture Management Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to support sales cycles throughout the Customer Value Journey as an integral member of the SAP account team.
• Support the assessment of current customer solutions from SAP and potential areas of opportunity for faster solution adoption & consumption, as well as footprint expansion.
• Drive business and IT architecture definitions to ensure consistency, cooperation, and alignment with SAP organizations, the customer, and partners.
• Provide a linkage from the customer to SAP product development leadership.

Creating an SAP Architecture Vision for the Customer

• Support building customer demand through appropriate thought leadership positioning.
• Understand customer’s business process map and business model with industry reference architecture focus​.
• Understand customer’s current enterprise landscape and future needs​.
• Drive the positioning of standard cloud architectures (plug & play) leveraging standard cloud solutions. ​

Building Key Customer Architecture Deliverables: Business & Solution Architecture, Target State, Transformation Roadmap

• Drive business architecture and capability mapping to solution design​.
• 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 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 organizations 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.
• Deep knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, SaaS/ PaaS models and Cloud-based commerce/ business networks.
• Proven professional networks in the market to drive pipeline and revenue growth for SAP.
• Experience in Service industries (Professional Service, Travel, Transport, Logistic, Media Industry) is an added value for candidates.
• Proven leadership and project management experience.
• Proven experience of driving tangible outcomes in Enterprise Architecture for customers.
• Fluency in German and English.
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) required, MBA or equivalent degree required from accredited university preferred.
• Togaf certifications and Experience in using EAM tools is an added value for candidates

Meet your team

At the core of our mission, the Architecture Advisor team is dedicated to guiding our customers through their cloud business transformation journey. Our experts combine professional, technical and methodological know-how with in-depth industry knowledge.

We are passionate about enhancing the end-to-end customer experience. We rethink business processes, place our customers and their requirements at the center of our sales activities and thus accompany the service sector on its way into the digital future. We collaborate closely with our sales colleaques, partners and colleaques from other areas of our company.

Our team is responsible for customers in Professional Service, Travel & Transport, Telco, Logistic and Media Industries. Whether helping customers overcome obstacles or identifying new growth avenues, the Architecture Advisor team is committed to delivering value every step of the way.

​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.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Requisition ID: 423272  | Work Area: Presales  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time  
 

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