SAP Cloud Advisory Architect

Job Description

We Are:

Accenture’s SAP Integrated Platform Team (IPT), a team of individuals that bring a blend of SAP, advisory, and industry expertise to help our industry-leading clients transform their business and accelerate value through SAP-led business transformations.

Our team helps our clients define the path for their business transformations and guide them through their journeys, with a focus on delivering value, enabling innovation, and addressing their business challenges. We bring a strong point-of-view on industry, technology and functional topics to senior executives at industry-leading companies. We focus on defining our clients’ transformation roadmaps, identifying value opportunities, shaping our clients processes and solutions, and leading large complex business transformation programs enabled by SAP technologies.

Internally, our team is the muscle for new SAP thinking and capability development. We lead the most strategic sales pursuits and develop new capabilities that make our practice a place for big opportunities and continuous learning and development. Our hands-on experience is complemented by our strong emphasis on training on S/4HANA, all cloud products from SAP, and new technologies and innovation.

Our team is part of Accenture’s global SAP community. We are leaders in the marketplace, with more than 70,000 SAP practitioners globally and over 70 SAP awards—more than any other partner.

You Are:

A proven client adviser, excited of solving our clients’ toughest business challenges with SAP technologies. You lead your clients with a strong point of view that you have constructed with your experience helping fortune 500 Aerospace and Defense clients address the challenges of modernizing and digitizing their enterprises. You possess broad transformation and industry experience, and deep SAP functional skills. You can lead projects and teams and have strong communication, people and executive presence skills that help you build credibility with senior client executives.

The Work:

• Build an advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Chief Information Officer (CIO).
• Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire SAP ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
• Demonstrate a track record for successful leadership and executive presence in face-to-face interactions.
• Ensure effective communication with customers during critical incident management, with a focus on C-level executives.
• Lead executive committee meetings with customer stakeholders to monitor delivery progress and customer support experience, emphasizing a proactive agenda.
• Provide domain expertise around SAP S/4HANA private and/or public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Accenture with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Exhibit technical leadership in motivating delivery teams to meet customer expectations by providing workarounds and quickly resolving technical issues.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, security, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution.
• Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.