Job Description

• As a customer obsessed organization, the role of the SAP Architect is one of the most important roles within Company and requires a broad spectrum of skills, passion, and commitment. The role is the face of Company’ world class SAP on cloud delivery team and requires technical leadership, trusted advisor responsibilities, and customer facing soft skills
• This Company is a software-enabled services provider, synonymous with SAP on Cloud, focused on delivering superior, highly automated Managed Services to Enterprise customers. Our customers span multiple verticals and geographies across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. We partner with AWS, SAP, Microsoft and other global technology leaders.

Responsibilities Duties:

An SAP Architect will take the lead role across a range of customer projects with responsibility for 

• Designing, planning, and delivering SAP environments on public cloud
• Develop and maintain the technical architecture approach, including development of architecture road maps and standards, sizing standards, change control standards etc.
• Work with business and project representatives to understand technical architecture performance, availability, and recovery requirements and translate those in agreed SLAs and KPIs
• Work with process and functional leads on customer SAP teams to understand the solution architecture
• Derive compatible SAP and non-SAP products, versions, and maintenance plans to support the solution architecture
• Work with customer hardware, hosting, and infrastructure, teams and support service partners to understand preferred technologies and capabilities
• Establish cloud architecture patterns, including network, storage, and compute
• Establish Disaster Recovery strategy based on target SLAs and KPIs 
• Develop the SAP landscape build and deployment plan including logical system
• Understand the Change and Release Management Plan
• Work with the Project and Business as Usual teams, the external Technical Service partner and the internal Infrastructure hosting team to define and implement the overall technical plan.
• Ensure the applicable teams deploy good SAP practice in operating the solution and advice clients accordingly
• Facilitate SAP migration assessment workshops

Key Skills:

• 6+ years work experience in SAP product consulting, systems integration, or architect role.
• BS degree in computer science or engineering with 5 years of experience or MS degree with 2 years of experience.
• Have a good understanding of SAP best practices

• Must have excellent expertise in ABAP development with very good understanding of SAP modules such as Finance, MM, PP, QM, SD, PLM, and APO.
• Must be an expert in analyzing, creating system specifications, and developing tests and implementing business solutions utilizing SAP technologies.
• Must have extensive development experience using ABAP objects, HANA SQL Programming, SAP Fiori Developments, OData developments.
• Experience working with interfaces in addition to Web Services, such as Java connectors and Rest APIs communicating with non-SAP applications.
• Must have good experience with SAP security concepts and must have implemented authorization checks in ABAP objects.
• Experience managing projects and working with a team of Engineers.

• Expertise in doing Solution demos and presentations to customers/business stakeholders/architects.

• Ability to assess and manage technical risks and issues.
• Able to report both verbally and in writing to executive level
• Must have good communication skills and should have a proven ability to meet deadlines without compromising quality.

Experiance Qualifications:

A successful Technical Architect within Company must have experience across four key pillars;

1.    Technical Heritage: 

Have broad experience across all key areas of SAP Architecture with a minimum of 10 years’ experience of technical architecture design. Which should include:

• Deep technical experience with SAP migrations and the ability to demonstrate experience in a broad range of cutover technical approaches including heterogenous, homogeneous, SUM DMO, and near zero downtime models.
• Should be able to demonstrate and show reference examples of deep technical understanding of SAP Platform technologies such as the SAP ERP Suite, BI, reporting, and UI technologies across a variety of database types.
• Should possess deep experience with SAP cross platform sizing and the ability to translate existing on-premises models to x86 based cloud workloads.
• Must have demonstrable experience within SAP HANA
• Be able to demonstrate experience across a range of platforms and database types including x64, AIX, HP-UX, Wintel platforms, HANA, DB2, Sybase ASE, and Oracle and show experience administering and architecting into Linux (SuSE / RHEL)
• Should be able to architect and describe network design including but not limited to CIDR ranges, architecting across private networks, interconnectivity across IPSEC & AWS Direct Connect circuits.
• Be able to demonstrate experience and/or working knowledge of working on public cloud technologies This should include:
  • Working with networking
  • Demonstrate knowledge of cloud networking, storage, compute and other services
  • Landing Zone Concepts
• Is technically inquisitive, is asking questions and is constantly learning.
• Passionate about innovation: A successful TA in Company should remain inquisitive and open minded about new technologies and cloud services. As such skills in these additional areas would be a bonus:
  • Big Data and Data Lake architecture concepts both in cloud and SAP technologies
  • Machine Learning & IoT concepts and cloud offerings.
  • SAP DevOps automation including Terraform and Ansible experience.

2.    Customer facing:

An SAP Architect in Company is the primary contact and trusted advisor to both our customers and prospects, customer facing experience is a vital skill to a successful TA application and should include evidencable experience of:

• CXO level relationship engagement, the ability to talk at a business level to senior stakeholders within an organization.
• Excellent presentations skills, ability to design and execute detailed design workshops relevant to customer requirements.
• Able to translate SAP & cloud technical terms, designs, and concepts to layman’s terms
• Must be a team player. Company operate in a pattern-based way of working which allows consistency, scalability, and drives our automation first strategy.

3.    Commercially aware:

Designing and modelling the solution to the customer key drivers and criteria, while taking into account cost considerations and understanding various cost models

• Commercial experience designing, modelling, and explaining solutions
• Be able to translate the customers key requirements into a suitable commercially compatible technical design
• Have awareness of cloud pricing strategies and models 
• Be aware of cloud commercial optimization within designs such as scheduling, on-demand builds, and storage patterns.
• An understanding of SAP licensing models would also be a benefit.

4.    Amazon core Values: 

We have found many similarities between Amazon core values and those of Company. We have adopted and adapted their core values as they align to our core values, a successful candidate must also align to these:

• Customer & Partner Obsession –
• We start with our customer & partners and work backwards; ask yourself how you would feel if. We make it easy for customer to leave and fight to keep them every day. We work vigorously to earn and keep customer & partner trust. Although we pay attention to competitors and internal processes, we obsess over our customers & partners. 
• Frugality -
• Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention.  There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense. When we make a cost saving, we share it back with our customers. We can keep our margins lower as our overhead is lower. 
• Good Place to Work –
• What we do is easy with a team of excellent, happy, motivated and empowered people. We as managers put our people first. We work hard to understand and optimize the employee experience. We build hands-on, multi-skilled, motivated and aligned teams which will make it easier for all of us to deliver to our customer requirements. We make sure we can focus on people that can and want to push the company forward.
• Hire and Develop the Best -
• Leaders raise the performance bar with every hire and promotion. They recognize exceptional talent, and willingly move them throughout the organization. Leaders develop leaders and take seriously their role in coaching others. From the first day of joining Company.  
• Vision –
• Leaders know where they are going. They energize their teams to that goal and create clarity, focus and cohesion. They set aggressive targets to achieve the vision. They don’t give up.
• Ownership & Accountability –
• Leaders are owners and display a high level of accountability. They think long term and don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say, “that’s not my job". They do what they say and use all means to ensure that.
• Have Backbone; 
• Disagree and Commit - Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.
• Are Focused; Deliver Results -
• Leaders focus on the key operational outputs from their business and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. They don’t get distracted and are masters in prioritizing. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle. 
• Invent and Simplify -
• Leaders expect and require innovation and invention from themselves and their teams and always find ways to simplify. They are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere, and are not limited by “not invented here". They Google. A lot. As we do new things, we accept that we may be misunderstood for long periods of time.
• Dive Deep -
• Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, understand the value of evidence and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them. The dive deep when they must and stay high when they can.
• Are Right, A Lot –
• Leaders are right a lot. They have a strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs.
• Learn and Be Curious –
• Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves. They are curious about new possibilities and act to explore them. They recognize each day, each action, each issue as a learning opportunity. They facilitate learning behaviors for their teams.
• Insist on the Highest Standards -
• Leaders have relentlessly high standards - many people may think these standards are unreasonably high. Leaders are continually raising the bar and driving their teams to deliver high quality products, services and processes. Leaders ensure that issues do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• Think Big -
• Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers & partners.
• Bias for Action -
• Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking. 
• Earn Trust -
• Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.

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