Senior Technology Architect - Vimercate, Rome - Italy Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. Apply now!
Location This position can be covered in Vimercate (Milan) or Rome.
SAP's strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. To support this mission, we are currently looking for an experienced Technology Architect. If you are passionate about driving digital transformation, have a deep understanding of SAP technologies, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you.
As a Technology Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the digital transformation journey of our customers by supporting the positioning and selling cycle of new SAP technologies. You will also lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions based on SAP technologies.
Responsibilities Collaborate with customers, business stakeholders, and technology teams to understand business objectives, identify opportunities, and define technology strategies aligned with SAP's product portfolio. Design end-to-end enterprise solutions that meet business requirements, considering scalability, performance, security, and integration aspects. Develop architectural governance, roadmaps, and implementation plans to guide the execution of technology initiatives. Provide leadership and guidance to build architecture teams throughout the solution delivery lifecycle. Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement. Ensure compliance with architectural standards and best practices, promoting reusability and adherence to SAP's architectural principles. Conduct technology assessments and facilitate decision-making processes to support solution adoption and investment prioritization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address complex business challenges, resolve technical issues, and ensure successful project delivery. Contribute to selling cycles of SAP Technology solutions (e.g., RISE and BTP) while maximizing customer value. Play the Technical Architect role in SAP Implementation Project being capable to deliver activities like definition of scope of work, customer project presentation, design technical aspects of solutions, write Business Blueprint, lead offshore resources, design project GANTT, produce high quality deliverables, identify new business opportunities to enlarge SAP footprint, etc. Play the role of "Expert on Demand" while supporting SAP Partners in their implementations providing best practices and guidelines to ensure a successful SAP solution implementation. Stay updated with the latest advancements in SAP technology offerings, actively participating in professional development activities. Education and Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Solid oral and written communication skills, with the demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics to management and non-technical audiences. Self-motivated, well organized and with a strong innovation attitude. Excellent problem-solving capabilities in complex, multi-vendor computing environments. High proficiency in the SAP Technology product (releases, platform interdependencies etc.). Good understanding of operational aspects (Application and Technical) of SAP solutions in a cloud environment. Good understanding of the entire platform stacks (storage, virtualization, hardware, networks etc.). Good understanding of technical capabilities of at least one Hyperscaler (AWS, Azure or GCP). Willingness to undertake customer related travel on short notice. Excellent communication skills in Italian are a must. Good written and oral skills in English are required. Strong awareness of global cultural differences; work experience in a multi-national, complex environment. Work Experience At least 5 years of customer facing SAP Consulting experience. At least 5 years of solution design, enterprise architecture and/or SAP implementation (e.g. S/4HANA Conversions or other maintenance events). SAP Certifications on S/4HANA, NetWeaver are a big advantage (e.g. C_TADM70_22, C_TADM_23). Experience with SAP BTP, IaaS Providers (AWS, MS Azure or GCP), SAP Premium Suppliers and/or data centres is a big advantage. Experience in SAP HANA and S/4HANA performance analysis is a big advantage. Cybersecurity & Compliance expertise is an advantage. SAP Application Lifecycle Management and or SAP Operations experience is an advantage. Experience of customer facing pre-sales role is an advantage. We build breakthroughs together SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development.
We win with inclusion 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 proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability: Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Requisition ID: 385045 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 30% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.
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