Job Description

• As a customer obsessed organization, the role of the SAP Architect is one of the most important roles within This Company and requires a broad spectrum of skills, passion, and commitment.
• The role is the face of This 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 forDesigning, 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 KPIsDevelop 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:

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

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 This 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.

Customer facing:

• An SAP Architect in This 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.
• This Company operate in a pattern-based way of working which allows consistency, scalability, and drives our automation first strategy.

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 modelsBe 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.

Amazon core Values:

• We have found many similarities between Amazon core values and those of This 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 This 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.

Experiance Qualifications:

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

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 This 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.

Customer facing:

• An SAP Architect in This 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.
• This Company operate in a pattern-based way of working which allows consistency, scalability, and drives our automation first strategy.

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 modelsBe 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.

Amazon core Values:

• We have found many similarities between Amazon core values and those of This 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 This 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.

Benefits:

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