Principal Enterprise Architect - Midwest

Principal Enterprise Architect - Midwest

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong.

What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

As a Principal Enterprise Architect, you will develop a comprehensive enterprise architecture model for our customers aligning with their enterprise goals, collaborate with virtual account teams (VAT) as a transformation partner. You will drive the value realization and the solution adoption and lead activities such as:

• Guide customers through their cloud journey (with special focus on adopt and derive), starting with Enterprise archetypes and scaling digitally.
• Provide enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles to ensure that every customer benefits from SAP's cloud qualities.
• Act as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, driving architecture effectiveness.
• Support adoption, identifying and mitigating technical adoption risks.
• Enhance impact on customer’s business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities.
• Bundle customer expectations and align business goals in a tangible enterprise level success plan to monitor and validate KPIs & value drivers to enable value-driven business transformation with value framework.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission‑critical processes.
• Through governance, involve and engage relevant stakeholders within and outside the customer organization to enhance value realization, establish a common perspective on customer business goals and value drivers across solution areas to provide customer context to all teams, enhancing customer proximity and experience.
• Align customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerate BTP adoption and promote SAP best practices.

• Experience delivering enterprise business transformation projects and aligning customer priorities with target architecture and roadmap.
• In-depth knowledge of the SAP Solution Portfolio and Enterprise Architecture Framework (North Star).
• Experience with Business Technology Platform components (application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, AI) and practical experience with S/4
  
  HANA applications.
• Strong understanding of Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, familiarity with SAP LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM.
• Knowledge of SAP's Business AI roadmap, including identifying use cases and piloting AI‑driven solutions to enhance business processes.
• Expertise in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies.
• Understanding of SAP’s value framework, value drivers and business case creation with e.g. VLM (SAP value lifecycle manager

• 10+ years in customer experience roles (e.g., Program Manager, Architect), with experience in end‑to‑end architectural design for hybrid solution landscapes.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework and Toolset, and experience with BTP components and services such as application development, automation, data and analytics, integration, and AI capabilities.
• Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
• S/4
  
  HANA technical or/and SAP S/4
  
  HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management and C‑level, both within an IT team and across business functions.
• Mindset for Strategic Thinking, Continuous Learning, and Business Acumen.

• Knowledge of on‑premise and corresponding SAP cloud solutions.
• Professional training and certification (e.g., SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework featured by LeanIX EAM, SAP Certified…