Principal Enterprise Architect RISE for Services Industry - MU Germany (f/m/d)

<p><span><strong><span>We help the world run better </span></strong></span></p> <p><span>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.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p><p><strong><span><strong>The position is available for all SAP Locations in Germany.</strong></span></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span><strong>ABOUT THE TEAM – Services Industry</strong><br/>Business Transformation &amp; Architecture (BT&amp;A) is the management and architecture consulting unit within SAP Customer Services &amp; Delivery board area, assisting customers to benefit from technology and digitalization in their businesses. We are committed to ideate business innovations, develop solutions and to turn novel ideas into business results. Our mission is to enhance technical implementations to business transformations with sustainable impact.</span></p> <p><span>In the fast-moving services sector - whether it’s professional services, banking, insurance, travel and transportation or telecommunications and media - agility, customer experience, and digital engagement are key. Join our dynamic regional SAP Enterprise Architects – RISE team within BT&amp;A and partner with leading service organizations to redesign core processes, enhance service delivery, and create competitive differentiation. You’ll play a pivotal role in helping these businesses scale efficiently, respond to market changes, and deliver exceptional customer value through cloud-first transformation.</span></p> <p><span>If you thrive in customer-focused environments where innovation and speed are critical to success, BT&amp;A is the right place for you.</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span><strong>YOUR FUTURE ROLE</strong></span></p> <p><span>As a <strong>Principal Enterprise Architect RISE for Public &amp; Energy - MU Germany (f/m/d),</strong> you guide customers digital transformations using cutting-edge SAP technologies, advancing the RISE with SAP initiative, promoting Clean Core principles, and accelerating SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) adoption.</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span>You will utilize internal and external available customer specific information to develop a comprehensive reference Enterprise Architecture – RISE Model for our customers aligning with their business objectives. In your role you work with a variety of experts in a multi-disciplinary team of highly motivated and experienced colleagues. You increase the customer’s value by driving activities such as:</span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li><span>Developing reference architecture and transformation plans promoting SAP best practices</span></li> <li><span>Provide architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP‘s standard cloud qualities </span></li> <li><span>Identify innovation use cases that benefit our customers strategic and operational objectives</span></li> <li><span>Advising customer management on architecture and transformation activities</span></li> <li><span>Identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks</span></li> <li><span>Aligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy accelerating BTP adoption </span></li> </ul> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span><strong>YOUR PROFILE</strong></span></p> <p><span>We are looking for dynamic and advisory minded colleagues from a multi-national environment who can effectively drive standards, organizational change and innovation. </span></p> <p><span> </span></p> <p><span>What you will bring:</span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li><span>Bachelor or Master’s degree in <strong><em>Business Administration, Informatics or</em></strong> <strong>any comparable education</strong></span></li> <li><span>9-11+ yrs. of practical experience from a multi-national environment advising management and work as enterprise architect and/or transformation advisor</span></li> <li><span>Proven experience delivering enterprise business transformation, aligning stakeholder priorities with system architectures and roadmap</span></li> <li><span>Services industry know how</span></li> <li><span>Experience delivering at least one full end-to-end SAP implementation in a responsible role from process design to after GoLive, ideally incl. support and optimization</span></li> <li><span>S/4HANA technical and/or SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience</span></li> <li><span>Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework f