Job Description

We help the world run better
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.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Architect Advisor to drive enterprise-wide transformations for some of Australia’s most complex organisations. In this role, you bring the strategic vision and technical depth to define robust, “Digital First, Data First” business roadmaps — translating complex organisational challenges into actionable, evidence-based SAP architectures that create lasting enterprise value.
Whether you’re steering a major discovery engagement for a major government department, advising a bank on core finance transformation, or helping a highly regulated organisation modernise its technology landscape while strengthening resilience, compliance, and trusted data foundations, you will bring the vision, the evidence, and the technical depth to make it happen. You will work closely with senior business, technology, finance, risk, and operational leaders to shape transformation roadmaps, ensuring innovation translates into measurable outcomes — whether that is improved citizen services, stronger regulatory confidence, operational efficiency, risk reduction, improved employee experience, or better return on investment.

About the Role
As an SAP Architecture Advisor, together with the Account Executive you co-pilot account strategy, uncover new stakeholders, build pursuit teams, and lead complex opportunities. You guide customers through business and technology transformations, acting as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT stakeholders — aligning Board strategy with SAP’s solution capabilities to deliver measurable outcomes.
As the presales lead, you collaborate with an extended team of sales, solution advisors, value advisors, and delivery experts to provide strategic guidance across the full customer lifecycle — from vision and planning to value realisation. This role requires strategic thinking, strong business acumen, and deep solution architecture expertise to help customers modernise their technology landscapes, adopt cloud innovation, and unlock value from SAP’s platform, data, and AI capabilities.

Role Expectations

• Lead Strategic Discovery Run comprehensive discovery engagements and lead executive workshops to define future-state enterprise data strategies. Navigate the complexities of government reform, regulatory change, legacy modernisation, cyber resilience, mergers, divestments, operating model change, and deep organisational transformation to build a clear and actionable path forward.
• Architect the Core Ecosystem. Design end-to-end, best-practice solutions leveraging SAP S/4HANA Cloud, SuccessFactors, SAP BTP, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, Business Data Cloud, SAP Ariba, Fieldglass, and related SAP capabilities. Ensure architectural consistency, solution integrity, and clean-core principles across complex customer environments.
• Innovate and Automate. Push the boundaries of standard architecture by exploring advanced technical strategies, including agentic AI workflows for system configuration and deployment optimisation.
• Be Evidence-Based. Ground every recommendation in solid evidence. Anchor architectural claims in official SAP documentation, verified domain expertise, and proven capabilities. Advise with confidence, and correct misconceptions constructively.
• Shape and Communicate Roadmaps. Create high-quality artefacts — proposals, points of view, transformation roadmaps — that make the SAP value proposition compelling and memorable. Present confidently to C-suite and business stakeholders, playing back your understanding of their challenges and building a shared vision.
• Collaborate Across Teams. Partner with Industry Advisors, Value Advisory, Customer Success, Sales, and Solution Experts to connect industry insights, business value frameworks, and SAP capabilities into compelling transformation strategies. Contribute to Bills of Material (BoMs), phased roadmaps, and solution architectures aligned to customer priorities.
• Enable the Architecture Practice. Utilise LeanIX enterprise architecture tools to maintain key artefacts including capability maps, application landscapes, and technology reference architectures. Contribute best practices and thought leadership to a high-performing advisory team.

Qualities We’re Looking For:

Beyond skills and experience, we are looking for a particular way of thinking and engaging:

• Owner-Builder Mindset. You approach enterprise software like a complex physical structure. You’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves, dig into the foundation, and figure out exactly how things connect. You explore all possible angles and gather the hard data before bringing in specialised engineers — combining hands-on curiosity with strategic foresight.
• Fiercely Data-Driven. You love evidence and concrete examples, your strategies are backed by hard facts, official APIs, and proven capabilities. You know where to look for authoritative answers and you build recommendations on solid ground.
• Authentic Communicator You are equally comfortable standing in front of a C-suite as you are in a working session with architects. You communicate with clarity and genuine engagement — personable, direct, and focused on the client’s success. You listen to understand, not just to respond, and you guide stakeholders toward the right outcomes with confidence and respect.
• Broadly Strategic, Deeply Technical. You can discuss big-picture transformation one minute and get into the specifics of SAP BTP integration patterns the next. You hold both dimensions with ease, and you know when to zoom out and when to zoom in.
• Comfortable in Complexity. You are energised by ambiguity, competing stakeholder priorities, legacy landscapes, regulatory constraints, and multi-year transformation horizons. You can bring structure to complexity and help customers move from uncertainty to a practical, sequenced path forward.

Experience & Skills

• Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C-level executives and senior stakeholders through compelling communication and storytelling.
• Experience leading opportunities across sales, presales, and delivery organisations in complex enterprise engagements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex architecture concepts in a business-relevant way.
• Experience working with SAP solutions and platforms, with the ability to translate technology capabilities into tangible business value.
• Strong understanding of SAP key business processes: Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Design to Operate, Hire to Retire, and Order to Cash.
• Proven experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or strategic technology advisory roles within large enterprise environments.
• Domain expertise in at least one core business capability area — such as Finance, Spend Management, Asset Lifecycle Management, Supply Chain, or
• Customer Experience — is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of one or more industries such as Engineering & Construction, Consumer Products, or Mill Products. Flexibility across industries is highly valued.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools, including LeanIX, for developing architecture artefacts and transformation roadmaps is an advantage.
• Cover letter is required for this application.

Bring out your best
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.

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. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Requisition ID: 451205 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid