Senior Consultant Business (f/m/d) Data Strategy & Advisory - Data Architect (f/m/d)

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll build

As a Senior Consultant, Business Data Strategy & Advisory, you’ll lead customer engagements to bring SAP’s transformative frameworks for Business data to life at SAP’s customers. Reporting to the Head of Business Data Strategy & Advisory your role will focus on thoughtleadership, fostering collaboration, and achieving customer success. Key responsibilities include:

• Develop innovative business data and analytics concepts, strategies, and solutions for our industrial clients in both national and international contexts

• Advise on the implementation and optimization of reporting and planning solutions with SAP Business Data Cloud from requirements analysis and technical design to implementation

• Transform and modernize existing reporting and planning systems and integrate BusinessAI with the needed high quality data

• Take on program and project responsibility and support in presales activities

• Deepen and expand customer relationships through competent consulting and solution-oriented approaches

What We Offer

This role provides a unique opportunity to shape SAP’s global architecture strategy. You will:

• Impact SAP’s Future: Lead transformative projects that define SAP’s strategy and drive customer success.

• Collaborate with Industry Leaders: Work alongside global teams, SAP executives, and strategic customers on high-value transformations.

• Career Growth Opportunities: Enjoy a clear path to advancement with opportunities for specialization or leadership within SAP’s ecosystem.

• Inclusive Work Environment: Experience a flexible environment fostering continuous learning, professional development, and innovation.

Join us in shaping SAP’s future and driving the enterprise architecture vision for our customers worldwide.

What you bring

• Strategic Visionary and Trusted Advisor: Deep expertise in Data & Analytics and data platform architectures, concepts and business impacts, with a strategic view that aligns with SAP’s vision and cloud methodologies like RISE or Clean Core. Proven ability to align technology and business strategies for impactful customer outcomes.

• Experienced data & analytics transformation Leader: 10+ years of experience in Data & Analytics architecture and business transformation, with a track record of inspiring customers, driving collaboration, and delivering high-impact solutions. Proven track record of delivering large scale data & analytics programs / projects in the SAP environment.

• Customer-centric and Change-Oriented: Strong focus on customer success and extensive experience leading large-scale transformations. Skilled in change management to ensure digital adoption and measurable value for clients.

Must-Have Requirements

• SAP data & analytics Expertise: In-depth knowledge of SAP’s Data & Analytics portfolio (SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW) and frameworks and the correlation with SAP BusinessAI, SAP RISE incl. Clean Core principles and SAP BTP.

• Strategic Relationship Building: Strong networking skills within SAP and externally, with the ability to build trusted relationships with leaders, including CIOs and CTOs.

• Change Management & Customer Success: Proven success in guiding impactful digital transformations and leading change management initiatives to support adoption.

• ECO System: Strong ecosystem with the Data & Analytics space in SAP (Development, Sales, Enterprise Architecture) and outside (partners, 3rd party vendors) to foster ideas, capabilities and approaches to provide impact at customers side and having trusted feedback loops into the SAP organization to further evolve products and concepts.

• Cross Industry Expertise / Exposure: cross industry expertise with a deep knowledge in at least one industry to build relevant Use Cases for Business data platforms

• Excellent communication skills in both German and English

Nice-to-Have Requirements

• Innovation & AI Expertise: Experience integrating AI and emerging technologies to drive transformation goals and enhance customer adoption.

• S/4HANA & Business Transformation Expertise: S/4HANA and business transformation knowledge to identify optimization & innovation potentials in customer engagements

• Industry Certifications: Relevant certifications, such as SAP Certified Architect or others, with recognition as a thought leader in enterprise architecture.

• Advanced Change Management Skills: Expertise in advanced change management practices, with a history of driving engagement and complex organizational change.

Where you belong

The Business Data Platforms & Strategy team is a high-performing group of data and transformation experts dedicated to delivering SAP’s most innovative frameworks and solutions to customers across the region of MEE. Our team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and customer success—driving SAP’s vision for the future of data and analytics.

We empower customers to unlock the full value of their data by leveraging SAP’s Business Data Cloud, Clean Core principles, and cloud transformation methodologies. By fostering collaboration, innovation, and a customer-centric mindset, we ensure that SAP’s transformative capabilities translate into measurable business impact.

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SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. 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. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.