Services Architecture Sr. Specialist

SAP • Edgmont Township, PA

5d • $125,923 - $206,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

SAP Labs, LLC seeks a Services Architecture Sr. Specialist at our Newtown Square, PA location to act as an advisor to the customer with a broad application, LoB or industry understanding. The role involves understanding the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically and translating them into an appropriate business-driven IT-roadmap and architecture design based on SAP's offerings and SAP's cloud strategy. The specialist will help operationalize customer business strategies, identify relevant components and approaches to derive the best possible solution, and assist customers in reaping the benefits of cloud solutions. This role challenges existing solutions and concepts to generate state-of-the-art, future-ready outcomes, re-defining concepts for constant improvement and agility in solution design. The specialist will clarify expectations from various stakeholders, create integrated solutions, and collaborate with customers, partners, and SAP teams for optimal implementation. They will also drive knowledge management and innovation, collaborate with development teams, and leverage SAP's technology platform capabilities. Understanding and using various architectural patterns like micro-service based architecture and reactive architecture is crucial. The role supports sales deals by articulating deployment scope, design, roadmap, and estimates, and designs to-be architectures for optimal outcomes. It helps define the strategic, conceptual, and organizational scope for SAP-centric IT landscapes and develops business, application, data, technology, or enterprise architecture in close collaboration with the customer. The specialist will also help troubleshoot success-critical customer issues and act in various architect roles (Business Architect, Application Architect, Data Architect, Technical Architect, or Enterprise Architect), advising and mentoring diverse teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.
• Designing, implementing, and managing large projects for migration and data transformation
• Data Migration using direct database updates
• Driving blueprinting workshops across key application modules for data transformation and migration
• Defining and executing data mapping rules to ensure accurate translation between source and target systems
• Planning, coordinating, and managing data migration projects, including risk assessment and timeline management
• Identifying, diagnosing, and resolving issues that arise during the migration process
• Database indexing, normalization, and performance tuning concepts
• Data transformation, migration, and integration tools, with a focus on structured data processing and conversion methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Acts as an advisor to the customer with a broad application, LoB or industry understanding.
• Understands the as-is situation and goals of a customer holistically and translates into an appropriate business-driven IT-roadmap and architecture design based on SAP's offerings and SAP's cloud strategy.
• Helps to operationalize the customers business strategies, identifies relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and helping our customers reap the increasingly differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions.
• Challenges existing solutions / approaches / concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome.
• Re-defines the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design).
• Clarifies expectations from various stakeholders and creates a solution which integrates diverse points of views and serves as a starting point for future SAP business.
• Collaborates with customers, partners and SAP teams for the best possible implementation.
• Drives knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers.
• Collaborates and co-innovates with the respective development teams.
• Fully understands and leverages the capabilities of SAPs technology platform(s).
• Understands and uses various Architectural patterns - e.g. micro-service based architecture, reactive architecture, cloud native etc.
• Can support sales deals by articulating deployment scope, design, roadmap, and estimates.
• Designs a to-be architecture for optimal outcome that supports the realization of expected business outcomes.
• Helps defining the strategic, conceptual, and organizational scope for the design of the SAP-centric IT landscape.
• Develops the business, application, data, technology or enterprise architecture in close collaboration with the customer, considering all aspects of complex / extraordinary situations, to generate delightful solutions for customers.
• Helps troubleshooting success-critical customer issues related to SAP, independent of their nature.
• Acts based on their Architect role in service delivery, as Business Architect, Application (Solution) Architect, Data Architect, Technical Architect or Enterprise Architect.
• Helps advising and mentoring diverse teams, which include customer, partner and SAP resources.

Benefits

• Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.
• 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.
• SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.
• The annual base salary range for this position is $125,923 - $175,865.
• The targeted combined range for this position is $125,923 - $206,900.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level