CLOUD ARCHITECT & ADVISOR (RISE WITH SAP)

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RISE with SAP, allows customers to run their SAP S/4 HANA and other SAP applications in a managed private cloud environment.
SAP has established strategic partnerships with the major cloud infrastructure providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to offer customers maximum choice for their SAP private cloud deployment.
Within the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services organization, the Cloud Architecture and Engineering Team is looking for highly motivated and customer-focused team members, to play the role of Cloud Architecture & Advisor (CAA) in EMEA.
The Cloud Architect Advisor becomes the primary point of contact for architecture topics, building a relationship of trust with the customer by closely working with all the other internal SAP teams, to design the technological foundations of customers' success on their cloud journey under RISE with SAP.
Expectations & Tasks.
This is a customer facing role where you will team up with different SAP teams and other partiesalong customers' cloud journey under RISE with SAP from the presales on.
Following are the key tasks that this role will perform.
Present in detail technical and operational aspects of the RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition offering, including respective managed service offerings (usually to CIOs, IT managers, data center managers and SAP Technology staff).
Present the technical requirements and value proposition for SAP private cloud.
Conduct technical assessment workshops with customers to define the future cloud architecture and plan the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
Guide customers on non-functional capabilities such Business Continuity, Cybersecurity & Compliance, Networking, Technical Operations, and service consumption.
Support account stakeholders on pricing-related activities and offers creation, providing ongoing deal support to sales teams.
Own the technical discussions with the customeralong customers' cloud journey under RISE with SAP orchestratingexperts to obtain expertise from the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services delivery organization as required.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES.
Bachelors / Masters degree in Computer Science from an accredited university.
Other Engineering degrees can be evaluated as well.
High proficiency in customer level communications and presentations is required High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings and industry solutions.
Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies etc.) Good understanding of operational aspects (Application and Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
Good understanding of the entire platform stacks (storage, virtualization, hardware, networks etc.) Good understanding of technical capabilities of at least one Hyperscale provider (AWS, MS Azure or GCP) Ability and willingness to be part of a global team of Cloud Architects Willingness to undertake customer related travel on short notice Fluency in English is a MUST and any other language is an asset.
WORK EXPERIENCE.
3 years of customer facing SAP Consulting experience.
3 years of solution design, enterprise architecture and/or SAP implementation.
Experience in a customer facing pre-sales role is an advantage.
Experience with SAP BTP, IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure or GCP), SAP Premium Suppliers and/or data centers is a big advantage.
Cybersecurity & Compliance expertise is an advantage SAP Application Lifecycle Management and or SAP Operations experience is an advantage ITSM, Service Design & Delivery experience is an advantage SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills are an advantage Bring out your best SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively.
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Requisition ID.
| Work Area.
Sales Support | Expected Travel.
0 - 10% | Career Status.
Professional | Employment Type.
Regular Full Time | Additional Locations.
#LI-Hybrid.