It Senior System Architect

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What you’ll do

One of SAP’s strategic customers has initiated a transformation program, part of which is to consume their SAP landscape of 130 systems as enhanced private cloud model provided by SAP on RISE. To ensure the best level of service, a dedicated team has been set up within SAP Enterprise Cloud Services to work for this strategic client. The goal of this team is to operate the entire customer SAP landscape and drive innovation adoption.

As an IT Architecture Senior Specialist, you are responsible to:

• play a key role in our customers move to the cloud, where a stability, a secure environment and downtime minimized operations are the measure of success
• consult with the customer assisting them to articulate their outcome based requirements - this includes technical architecture and it's supporting processes
• collaborate with internal partners to identify relevant standard solutions that would be available for rapid deployment
• where required, innovate (architect, design, build, test) a customer specific solution, this includes the technical application or infrastructure stack and services

What you bring

Technical

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Management
• Expert level experience: BASIS (> 10 years) and HANA ( > 5 years)
• Solid knowledge of SUSE and hyperscalers including tools and processes > 4 years (preferably with Pacemaker experience)
• Able to take technical requirements, analysis these, identify existing solutions or architect new > 2 years
• Solid know-how of SAP Technologies and Products (SAP certification beneficial)
• Problem solving skills, including incident resolution, RCA

Soft skills

• Excellent documentation skills including creating comprehensive and organized documentation, including standards and procedures.
• Strong communicator: Articulate technical details effectively to non-technical individuals using clear and concise language.
• Customer-focused: Thrive in high-pressure situations and maintain a strong focus on delivering exceptional service to customers.

Work experience

• 10 years working in IT
• Strong operations background, with recent architecture experience
• Working in customer-facing roles

Meet your team

SAP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) is part of the Product Engineering board area. As private cloud managed services provider, SAP ECS is offering and contributing to key aspects in the intelligent business transformation journey.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 428540 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.