Job Description

• As a customer-obsessed organization, the role of the Technical Architect is the single most important role with and requires a broad spectrum of skills, passion, and commitment being both the technical lead, the customer trusted advisor, and the face of the world-leading SAP on AWS organization.
• Should possess deep experience with SAP cross-platform sizing able to translate exiting on-premise models to x64 centric cloud workloads.
• Must have demonstrable experience within SAP in Memory platform technology such as HANA2.0 and SAP S4.
• Be able to demonstrate experience across a range of platforms and database types including SAP ASE, x64, AIX, HP-UX, Wintel platforms, 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,

Responsibilities Duties:

• Designing and Planning and delivering current and future SAP environment
• Develop and maintain the Technical Architecture approach, including the development of Technical 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 in SAP project to understand the Solution Architecture
• Derive suitable SAP and non-SAP Products, Versions and Maintenance Plans to support the Solution Architecture
• Work with Hardware, Hosting & Infrastructure, as well as the Support Service Partners, to understand preferred technologies and capabilities
• Establish Technical Architecture Blueprint, including Server and SAN Infrastructure
• Establish Disaster Recovery Strategy based on Target SLAs and KPIs and agreed
• Establish the Release Management Strategy

Key Skills:

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 of SAP migrations and be able to demonstrate experience in a broad range of cutover technical approaches including Heterogeneous, 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 Suite, BI, reporting, and UI technologies across a variety of database types.
• Should possess deep experience with SAP cross-platform sizing able to translate exiting on-premise models to x64 centric cloud workloads.
• Must have demonstrable experience within SAP in Memory platform technology such as HANA2.0 and SAP S4.

2. Customer-facing: A Technical Architect in 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 evidence experience of:

• CXO level relationship engagement, the ability to talk at a business level to senior stakeholders within an organization.
• Excellent presentation skills, ability to design and execute detailed design workshops relevant to customer requirements.
• Able to translate between SAP & AWS technical terms, designs, and concepts to plain English coaching and helping customers & partners these highly complex areas in plain English.

3. Commercially aware: Designing and modeling the solution to the customer key drivers and criteria, for example, an overengineered solution will not be successful in a cost-sensitive customer so the successful applicant must be able to demonstrate:

• Commercial experience designing, modeling, and describing landscapes
• Be able to translate the customer’s key requirements into a suitable commercially compatible technical design
• Have awareness of AWS pricing strategies and models including Reserved Instance, Convertible Reserved Instances, On-demand, and Spot models, and how best to apply them into a migration engagement.

4. Amazon core Values: We have found many similarities between Amazon’s core values and those. 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 backward; ask yourself how you would feel if. We make it easy for customers 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.

Experiance Qualifications:

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 of SAP migrations and be able to demonstrate experience in a broad range of cutover technical approaches including Heterogeneous, 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 Suite, BI, reporting, and UI technologies across a variety of database types.
• Should possess deep experience with SAP cross-platform sizing able to translate exiting on-premise models to x64 centric cloud workloads.
• Must have demonstrable experience within SAP in Memory platform technology such as HANA2.0 and SAP S4.

2. Customer-facing: A Technical Architect in 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 evidence experience of:

• CXO level relationship engagement, the ability to talk at a business level to senior stakeholders within an organization.
• Excellent presentation skills, ability to design and execute detailed design workshops relevant to customer requirements.
• Able to translate between SAP & AWS technical terms, designs, and concepts to plain English coaching and helping customers & partners these highly complex areas in plain English.

3. Commercially aware: Designing and modeling the solution to the customer key drivers and criteria, for example, an overengineered solution will not be successful in a cost-sensitive customer so the successful applicant must be able to demonstrate:

• Commercial experience designing, modeling, and describing landscapes
• Be able to translate the customer’s key requirements into a suitable commercially compatible technical design
• Have awareness of AWS pricing strategies and models including Reserved Instance, Convertible Reserved Instances, On-demand, and Spot models, and how best to apply them into a migration engagement.

4. Amazon core Values: We have found many similarities between Amazon’s core values and those. 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 backward; ask yourself how you would feel if. We make it easy for customers 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.

Benefits:

• Benefits: This may include training, health, insurance, commuting support, lunch service etc.