S/4 Hana Architect (m/f/d) - Sovereign Cloud Delivery Germany

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Company Description

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. SAP recently decided to combine and harmonize all SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, establishing an end-to-end process for the Public Sector and regulated industries. The newly created Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit is part of SAP Product Engineering with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP.

Your Future Role

We are looking for an S/4 Hana Architect within SAP Sovereign Cloud. You will act as the primary technical owner and strategic advisor for customer private cloud landscapes, driving stability and optimization, and contributing to architectural improvements. In this role, you will drive proactive risk management, provide architectural guidance, and oversee end-to-end technical governance, empowering customers to achieve secure, reliable, and scalable cloud operations aligned with their business goals.

Your core tasks include but are not limited to:

• Provide strategic cloud architecture and technical governance leadership, defining roadmaps, standards, best practices that optimise the landscape and align with business objectives and long-term sustainability.
• Lead key landscape lifecycle activities and transformation initiatives, including upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, major changes, and adoption of SAP S/4HANA, Clean Core principles, and cloud capabilities.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, critical issues, and escalations, driving preventive actions and coordinating timely resolution through close engagement with customers and internal teams.
• Drive automation, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement, ensuring reliable operations, measurable business outcomes, and value realization from cloud investments.

What You Bring

• Strong technical expertise in SAP technologies with several years of hands-on SAP Basis experience in both implementation and steady-state scenarios; knowledge of operating systems, databases, networking, disaster recovery/HA and technical architecture is considered essential to being successful in this role.
• Extensive experience in SAP technical administration and operations (7+ years).
• Extensive experience in the SAP RISE methodology and SAP migrations.
• Experience with SAP HANA and Linux environments (5+ years) is highly valued.
• Customer-focused experience in technical leadership or customer-facing roles, with the ability to manage critical situations, navigate escalations, and build trusted stakeholder relationships.
• Collaborative and analytical mindset, with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to effectively lead and coordinate projects across diverse, global, and virtual teams.
• Relevant experience in SAP Cloud Infrastructure, Open Stack, Terraform or Ansible is a plus.
• Relevant certifications in SAP technologies and hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are considered an advantage.
• Fluent business English language skills, German language skills are a plus.
• Commitment to maintaining daily office presence for efficient team collaboration.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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 committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.