RISE Cloud Architect & Advisor

About the role

This is a customer-facing role focused on Strategic Customers where you will support broader virtual account teams during the entire sales cycle of a Cloud deal.

Responsibilities

• Present RISE Private Cloud offering, technical details, and engagement model to internal and external stakeholders.
• Build customer-specific cloud roadmaps to support cloud adoption and Business Transformations.
• Gather as-is technical requirements and map them to to-be Enterprise cloud architecture.
• Assess customer security and network requirements to make sure the SAP security architecture framework can meet customer requirements.
• Work with SAP delivery and engineering teams to address customer-specific requirements.
• Present the value proposition for SAP private cloud on Hyperscale clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Conduct Technical Assessment workshops with customers to define the future Cloud architecture and support the migration roadmap together with partners, System Integrators, and or SAP Professional Services.
• Guide customers on all technical aspects like Business Continuity, Security & Compliance, Networks, etc.
• Own the technical discussions with the customer and act as the orchestrator of experts to obtain expertise from the SAP delivery organization as required.
• Act as Trusted Advisor to VAT and assigned customers on all technical aspects of SAP RISE.

Requirements

• High proficiency in customer communications and presentations is required.
• High proficiency in the SAP product portfolio, offerings, and industry solutions.
• Good understanding of SAP solutions (releases, platform interdependencies, etc.).
• Good understanding of operational aspects (Application or Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment.
• Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP).
• Ability and willingness to be part of a global team of Cloud Architects.
• Willingness to undertake customer-related travel on short notice.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of customer-facing pre-sales and cloud architecture role is an advantage.
• 8+ years of customer-facing SAP Technical Consulting experience.
• 8+ years experience with customer facing SAP Technology Consulting (e.g. Basis Admin, DB Admin, Migrations, Upgrades, Business Continuity, Operations etc.) in large-scale customer environments.
• SAP NetWeaver, OS/DB migration, SAP HANA, TOGAF certifications are a plus.
• Experience and certifications with IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure, or GCP) are a big advantage.
• SAP HANA and S/4 HANA skills would be very helpful but not mandatory.
• Cloud security including Cyber Security, Encryption, and key management knowledge is preferred.