Business Architect

About the role
We are looking for seasoned consultants who have proven experience and skills to manage the business architecture for ERP transformations. As a business architect you will be responsible for defining the business architecture and ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives. You act as a key member of the Transformation Design Authority and will be responsible for leading current state assessments identifying highlevel customer requirements and developing business solutions to create tangible business value for the client. Your typical day will involve defining opportunities developing business cases and working with crossfunctional teams to achieve the vision.

What youll do:
Leading current state assessments and identifying highlevel customer requirements defining the business solutions and structures needed to realize these opportunities.
Assisting in creating highlevel briefings for management as well as executive stakeholders.
Develop a working understanding of diverse and nuanced processes and operating procedures.
Develop enterprise business capability architecture including artifacts such as maps value streams and roadmaps.
Support functional testing and businessrelated application management (configuration)
and preparation and execution of key and enduser trainings for related internal tools.
Collaborate with senior leadership and key stakeholders to understand business objectives strategies and priorities for the ERP transformation.
Engage with business stakeholders IT teams SAP consultants and external vendors to gather requirements define scope and validate architectural designs.
Ensure that the solution design is consistent and standardized and facilitate capture and maintenance of business requirements.
Foster collaboration and consensusbuilding among crossfunctional teams to drive alignment and facilitate decisionmaking throughout the project.
Identify potential risks dependencies and issues related to the SAP transformation project and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
Leading strategic complex differentiated suite solution opportunities to address transformational and business modernization needs of customers.
Work closely with solution architects to provide solution architecture development consultancy and assurance to projects making sure applications are well designed and conform to Client standards and reference architectures.

What we ll offer you:
Innovative projects and international Teams around our Digital Transformation environment
Longterm oriented and valuedriven corporate culture
Excellent career opportunities as well as space for selfinitiative we demand and encourage
The task to rethink Strategy & Transformation projects and create tangible results
Successful growth along all dimensions of digital topics
Worldclass trainings embedded in a global expert network
Competitive salary & benefits and secondtonone perspectives for growth

What you ll bring:
Minimum 812 years of experience in the manufacturing industry
35 years of business architecture experience in a complex technical environment experience with SAP technologies and implementations is a plus.
Strong understanding of business architecture principles and methodologies.
Knowledge concerning manufacturing and ERP related ITsystems. Ideally you have already worked with or in a matrix team structure in relation to requirements process and solutions management.
Experience in stakeholder engagement requirements gathering and solution design with a track record of driving successful business transformation initiatives.
Excellent communication presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
Understanding of business analysis techniques and processes
Strong architecture experience in any of applications data or business domains.
Capability to see the big picture and apply strong levels of business acumen to creating roadmaps architectures and selection technology platforms.