Chief Enterprise Architect - Midwest

SAP•Chicago, IL

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Chief 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 guiding customers through their cloud journey, providing enterprise architecture guidance using RISE with SAP methodology and Clean Core principles, acting as the Transformation Partner for the CIO or other CxO, supporting adoption and identifying/mitigating technical adoption risks, enhancing impact on customer’s business goals by driving value realization through solution adoption and consumption of capabilities, bundling customer expectations and aligning 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, serving as a trusted advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and flexible cloud environments for mission-critical processes, and involving and engaging 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, and aligning customers and partners with SAP’s Clean Core strategy, accelerating BTP adoption and promoting SAP best practices.

Requirements

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/4HANA 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).
15+ 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.
S/4HANA technical or/and SAP S/4HANA application/functional knowledge/experience.
Proficiency in SAP Integration and Extensibility Advisory Methodologies and Clean Core principles.
Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills (in English) at the senior management and C-levels, 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 Professional-Enterprise Architect [P_SAPEA_2023], TOGAF).

Responsibilities

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.