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Job Title: IT Architecture Manager - Migrations

Summary:
We are looking for an accomplished IT Architecture Manager who is well versed in delivering consistent and high-quality results to join our SAP Enterprise Cloud Services team. You will contribute to SAP's strategy by supporting our customers with their SAP S/4HANA adoption on their path to the Intelligent Enterprise.

The Role:

• Lead the ECS Migration TSM team with direct responsibility for the implementation of the processes to deliver high quality migration service.
• Actively collaborates with the other regions and global initiatives as part of the leadership team.
• Provides effective financial stewardship and demonstrate value creation for customers and for SAP Enterprise Cloud Services.
• Executes robust delivery of the plan against defined KPIs & goals.
• Manages internal and external resources, ensuring business critical and innovative results.
• As a IT Architecture Manager, you will be responsible for the technical and architectural discussions with the customer, solution roadmap development.
• Analyze and implement SAP support methodology.
• Bring comprehensive knowledge on SAP S/4HANA architecture, conversion, and migration path.
• Understand the SAP high availability or disaster recovery architecture, network, and virtualization technologies (e.g., load-balancer, virtual machine etc.).
• Ability to own, lead and coordinate migration related tasks and activities.

What you bring 

• Minimum 16 years of overall experience in IT software and services.
• Minimum 12+ years of SAP Technical Administration (preferably in the domain of SAP Basis skill)
• Ability to work effectively as a virtual member of a dynamic, dispersed team (remote).
• Strong background in SAP Solutions, products, and cloud technologies.
• Ability to coordinates delivery and projects as a technical lead in a heterogeneous environment.
• Good knowledge on S/4HANA architectures and migration paths and tools.
• Good understanding of capabilities of at least one Hyperscale Clouds (AWS; MS Azure or GCP).
• Experience on at least 1 Brownfield OS/DB migration to any hyperscalers (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Certified on SAP S/4HANA conversion and OS/DB Migrations will be beneficial.
• Solid understanding as well as experience in SAP HANA.
• Experience in Technical Architecture/Implementation/Change Management approaches
• Expert across multiple SAP and non-SAP technologies.
• Willingness to travel to the customer for migration project related discussions if required.
• Comfortable handling challenging situations is a MUST including managing de-escalation conversations with senior stakeholders at SAP and at the customer. 
• Successful track of proposing and implementing process and organizational improvements with measurable results.
• Customer-first mindset – Experience in proactively engaging with customers to bring improvements in delivery resulting in increased CSAT and customer reference-ability.
• Availability to join global team meetings and to actively collaborate on global initiatives
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills
• Analytical thinking and decision-making ability; ability to drive change, including influencing skills across cultures
• Readiness to travel based on customer and internal meetings, as and when required.
• Deep understanding of SAP Enterprise Cloud Services strategy and processes is a plus.
• Understanding of the scope of SAP RISE is a plus.
• Excellent communication both Verbal and Written in English. 

Meet your team
SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is part of the SAP Product Engineering board area in SAP.  SAP Enterprise Cloud Services is a business unit focusing on delivery of managed private cloud services. To provide our customers with the right level of service, we have technical and customer facing roles within the unit along with technical delivery.

Location: Bangalore, India
Expected travel: [20 %]

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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.
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Requisition ID: 382700  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.
 

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