Senior Solutions Architect, Strategic Accounts in Walldorf

Job summary
Do you want to be part of the business development team working to establish Amazon Web Services as the leading platform for SAP’s internal and external cloud computing needs? Would you like to help SAP solve technical challenges on their transformation into a cloud company? Do you have a successful track record in designing architectural concepts for similar large scale systems?

As a Solutions Architect focused on SAP within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's web services (Amazon EC2, Amazon Machine Learning services, AWS IoT and many more) within SAP SE’s line of business.

The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in both, enterprise architectures and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills that will enable you to represent AWS well, to SAP’s developers, architects and executives. In addition, an ideal candidate will bring a good network to key technology influencers within the SAP SE organization, in Walldorf and beyond. The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

This is an outstanding role for the forward-thinking business strategist and well-rounded technologist at heart with a functional background in cloud transformation, who possesses deep industry knowledge and a passion for driving influence, trusted and being seen as a thought leader.
In addition to these outbound skills you are expected to demonstrate strength in hiring and developing other team members, making sound business and technical decisions and exemplifying Amazon leadership principles.


Key job responsibilities
· Collaborating with the global AWS SAP Account team on strategic customer opportunities.
· Consulting with various business units inside the customer on how to best leverage the AWS platform to transform SAP’s business.
· Help design software architecture for SAP’s cloud computing offerings built on top of AWS
· Support SAP SE’s internal use of the AWS platform by working on technology concepts & strategies, together with SAP’s IT and product organizations.
· Work with SAP’s technical leadership to help shape their cloud strategy.