Services Architecture Senior Specialist

Job Title Services Architecture Senior Specialist Location Houston, TX Work Model Hybrid Work Model Purpose and Objective SAP America, Inc. seeks a Services Architecture Senior Specialist at our Houston, TX location to act as a customer advisor on appropriate business-driven IT-roadmaps and architecture designs based on SAP’s offerings and cloud strategy. Expectations and Tasks Help to operationalize the customers’ business strategies, identifies relevant components, approaches, input, etc. to derive the best possible solution and helping our customers reap the increasingly differentiating benefits of our cloud solutions. Challenge existing solutions/approaches/concepts, to generate a state-of-the-art and future-ready outcome. Take a step back if required and re-define the concepts so that a constant improvement is guaranteed (agility in solution design). Help to clarify expectations from various stakeholders, especially in very difficult cases; create a solution which integrates diverse points of views and serves as a starting point for future SAP business. Collaborate with customers, partners and SAP teams for the best possible implementation. Drive knowledge management and innovation activities based on this experience with customers. Document successful approaches, tools etc. and makes them available at SAP internally. Collaborate and co-innovate with the respective development teams. Fully understand and leverage the capabilities of SAP’s technology platform(s). Understand and use various Architectural patterns – e.g. micro-service based architecture, reactive architecture, cloud native etc. Education and Occupational Experience Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Qualifications and Skills Installing, configuring and administering SAP HANA Database and SAP NetWeaver Technologies; Operations incidents and change management related to SAP applications and infrastructure to ensure business continuity; SAP Platform Technology, Landscape design in Technical Planning, Installations, Cloud migration, and OS/DB Migrations; Unix, Windows, and Linux Operating Systems; SAP Hana, Oracle, and MS SQL Server database administration; Performance tuning, User Management, and System Copies with various SAP products; Troubleshooting, analyzing, and resolving technical problems; Configuring, installing, and integrating SAP cloud products with IBP and Ariba; and Involvement in the planning of implementation projects, including sizing, scoping, strategizing client or landscape, and HANA High Availability/HANA Disaster Recovery Strategy, with minimal supervision at transaction level. Travel Position does require up to 80% domestic and international travel to SAP offices and customer sites to implement SAP solutions. Compensation Range Transparency The annual base salary range for this position is $138,237 - $196,010. SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is $138,237 - $230,600. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits. EEO Statement SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e‑mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: View email address on click.appcast.io. Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis. 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