Cloud Architect Associate

Requisition ID: 439120

Work Area: Sales Support

Expected Travel: 0 - 10%

Career Status: Graduate

Employment Type: Limited Full Time

Career Level: T1

Hiring Manager:Adrian Velasquez

Recruiter Name: Thais Nadim

Please upload you resume in English. Only resumes in English will be assessed.

SAP works in a hybrid-model way so youll be expected to be at an SAP office (or client) 3x a week.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

This role will assess and align customers current vs. to be state to create a path forward along their journey to the cloud.

In the private cloud the Technical Assessment Process is a unique process that is critical path for all opportunities. This process ensures that SAP can deliver the promise validating that the customers business and operational requirements can be technically delivered within SAPs private cloud delivery standards. The Cloud Architect Advisor (CAA) advises the customer on SAPs private cloud offerings and assesses the customers requirements against them.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

This is a leadership position in a customer and partner-facing team where you and your team will support the sales teams during the entire cycle of a cloud deal. The following are the key tasks that this role will perform:

- Establish and maintain an operating model in conjunction with the RISE Cloud Advisory
- Business Support and Leadership to recruit develop and energize a team of cloud architects focused on supporting customers embarking on a private cloud journey in support of SAPs cloud transformation and growth targets.
- Manage the business to ensure attainment of Sales2Delivery Handover targets and early escalation of potential provisioning risk or delivery delays that could result in revenue recognition deferral.- Pipeline and FC planning for capacity management in conjunction with sales leadership to ensure maximum coverage of prioritized deals.
- Executive presence in strategic pursuits providing technical leadership and support for cloud architects in non-standard or highly critical deal cycles.
- Best practice and knowledge sharing across and between architect teams to ensure continuous improvemen

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

- Bachelors / Masters degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
- Impeccable customer communications and presentation standard is required.
- Strong networking and executive communication skills.
- Proficiency in the SAP product portfolio offerings and industry solutions.- Understanding of SAP solutions (releases platform interdependencies etc.).
- Understanding of operational aspects (Application and Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
- Understanding of the entire platform stacks (storage virtualization hardware networks etc.)
- Understanding of technical capabilities of multiple Hyperscaler (AWS; MS Azure or GCP)
- Ability and willingness to be part of the leadership team for Cloud solutions.
- Fluency in English language.

WORK EXPERIENCE

- 1-3years of customer-facing SAP Consulting experience.
- 1-3 years of solution design enterprise architecture technical architecture and/or SAP implementation.
- Previous team leadership or management experience is beneficial

- Experience in technical pre-sales or delivery roles is highly beneficial.
- Cybersecurity and compliance expertise is an advantage.
- SAP Application Lifecycle Management and or SAP Operations experience is an advantage.
- SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills.

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