SAP - Principal Delivery & Solution Architect - Life Sciences Industry

About the role

You're considering the role of SAP Life Sciences Delivery & Solutioning Architect at Capgemini. This role involves driving end-to-end SAP solution strategy, business development support, solution architecture, and delivery execution for complex SAP programs within the Life Sciences industry.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a recognized SAP Life Sciences leader with expertise across SAP domains such as S/4HANA, Supply Chain, BTP, etc., supporting a broad scope of Life Sciences clients.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, partners, and account teams, aligning SAP transformation strategies with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and operational priorities.
• Drive Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, business development, and account growth initiatives by shaping opportunities, developing transformation roadmaps, and positioning innovative SAP solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Lead strategic pursuits and large-scale proposal efforts, including solution development, executive presentations, commercial positioning, and oral submissions for complex SAP transformation programs.
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships, influencing stakeholders across business and technology organizations while navigating complex environments to align on outcomes, scope, and transformation strategy.
• Lead enterprise solution architecture, blueprinting, and delivery strategy from pursuit through execution, ensuring solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with client business goals and enterprise architecture standards.
• Drive successful delivery of complex SAP programs by establishing governance frameworks, managing risk, ensuring quality execution, and integrating change management and business adoption strategies.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with SAP and key ecosystem partners while contributing to offering development, sales enablement, reusable assets, and GTM collateral that accelerate growth and improve win rates.
• Capture best practices and delivery learnings into accelerators, methodologies, and intellectual property that strengthen Capgemini's SAP Life Sciences capabilities.
• Serve as a thought leader within the SAP and Life Sciences community, representing Capgemini at industry events, client forums, and executive engagements while contributing to practice growth, innovation, and talent development.
• Embody Capgemini's core values of Honesty, Boldness, Trust, Freedom, Fun, Modesty, and Team Spirit.

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of SAP consulting, solution architecture, and large-scale transformation experience, including significant Life Sciences, MedTech, or BioPharma expertise.
• Proven success leading complex SAP transformation programs, including Greenfield and Brownfield implementations.
• Demonstrated experience shaping and leading large-scale pursuits, proposals, and executive presentations for opportunities exceeding $50M TCV.
• Strong Go-to-Market (GTM), business development, and account growth experience, including opportunity qualification, solution positioning, offering development, and strategic pursuit leadership.
• Ability to build trusted advisor relationships with executive stakeholders and translate complex business and technology concepts into compelling client-focused solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, solutioning, delivery, alliances, and industry practices within a consulting or systems integration environment.
• SAP certifications required; architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF) and additional industry credentials preferred.
• Prior experience with a global consulting firm, Big 4, or large systems integrator strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver integrated, OneCapgemini solutions across multiple service lines, while contributing to thought leadership, innovation, and practice growth.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of SAP consulting, solution architecture, and large-scale transformation experience, including significant Life Sciences, MedTech, or BioPharma expertise.
• Proven success leading complex SAP transformation programs, including Greenfield and Brownfield implementations.
• Demonstrated experience shaping and leading large-scale pursuits, proposals, and executive presentations for opportunities exceeding $50M TCV.
• Strong Go-to-Market (GTM), business development, and account growth experience, including opportunity qualification, solution positioning, offering development, and strategic pursuit leadership.
• Ability to build trusted advisor relationships with executive stakeholders and translate complex business and technology concepts into compelling client-focused solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, solutioning, delivery, alliances, and industry practices within a consulting or systems integration environment.
• SAP certifications required; architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF) and additional industry credentials preferred.
• Prior experience with a global consulting firm, Big 4, or large systems integrator strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver integrated, OneCapgemini solutions across multiple service lines, while contributing to thought leadership, innovation, and practice growth.

Skills and Experience

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred.
• 15+ years of SAP consulting, solution architecture, and large-scale transformation experience, including significant Life Sciences, MedTech, or BioPharma expertise.
• Proven success leading complex SAP transformation programs, including Greenfield and Brownfield implementations.
• Demonstrated experience shaping and leading large-scale pursuits, proposals, and executive presentations for opportunities exceeding $50M TCV.
• Strong Go-to-Market (GTM), business development, and account growth experience, including opportunity qualification, solution positioning, offering development, and strategic pursuit leadership.
• Ability to build trusted advisor relationships with executive stakeholders and translate complex business and technology concepts into compelling client-focused solutions.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across sales, solutioning, delivery, alliances, and industry practices within a consulting or systems integration environment.
• SAP certifications required; architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF) and additional industry credentials preferred.
• Prior experience with a global consulting firm, Big 4, or large systems integrator strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver integrated, OneCapgemini solutions across multiple service lines, while contributing to thought leadership, innovation, and practice growth.

Benefits

Base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $103,879 - $242,400. Capgemini provides a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include: Paid time off based on employee grade, Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada), Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada), Life and disability insurance, Employee assistance programs, and Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.