Cloud Architect

**We help the world run better**

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

**About the team**:
At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

**Purpose & Objectives**

RISE with SAP brings together the solutions and services our customers need for a true business transformation, in one package, in the way that works best for them - regardless of their point of departure, their end destination or how fast they want to move. We know that transformation is a journey, not a destination, so RISE with SAP allows customers to change not only once, but to continually transform - with SAP alongside them during every step of the way, leveraging AI as a key for an efficient and effective adaptation to todays' business fast-paced changes all industries are living

RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition is one of the key deployment options for our customers cloud transformation. It provides a comprehensive cloud infrastructure and managed service offerings to our customers as an essential part of the overall Cloud Strategy of SAP. This enables customers to safeguard their existing SAP ERP investment, while benefiting from a new level of flexibility - tailoring the software to meet their specific needs, retaining company-specific configurations and customizations of their SAP ERP system, and accessing the latest capabilities that give their company a competitive advantage

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.

**What you'll do**:
This is a customer facing role where you will team up with different SAP teams and other parties along 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 CIO’s, 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 customer along customers' cloud journey under RISE with SAP orchestrating experts to obtain expertise from the SAP Enterprise Cloud Services delivery organization as required.

**What you bring**
- Bachelor’s / Master’s 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.) from Basis Component space point of view.
- 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)
- Abili