Specialist Solutions Architect, SAP On AWS, Canadian Specialist Organization
Do you want to be part of the business development team helping to establish Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud computing platform for SAP solutions and customers?
AWS and SAP have been collaborating since SAP became a customer in 2008. Together, we have certified AWS to support most SAP solutions, brought purpose built EC2 instances to market to support SAP customer needs, and helped SAP leverage AWS services to power a number of their SaaS and PaaS offerings like Concur, SuccessFactors (for government agencies), HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC), and SAP Cloud Platform.AWS has been supporting SAP workloads for customers longer than any other cloud provider (since 2011), has more customers (5,000+ across all segments) than any other cloud provider, is certified to support the largest public cloud (native) SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA deployments, and has more SAP HANA cloud native certifications than other cloud providers.
As a SAP on AWS, Specialist Solution Architect focused on SAP within AWS, you will have the opportunity to help deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon's web services (Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon EBS) across the SAP customer and partner base.The emphasis being on working directly with customers to develop cloud migration and/or adoption strategies as it relates to their business critical SAP systems.
The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skill in both SAP solutions and cloud computing as well as customer facing skills that will enable you to represent AWS well, not only to customers and IT executives but also to the broader SAP community including SAP, developers, and architects.The ideal candidate should also have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
As a key member of the Canadian Specialist Organization working to ensure SAP customer success on the AWS platform, you will act as an Amazon ambassador in customer and partner engagements.
Key job responsibilitiesUnderstand and anticipate our customers' SAP-related business needs and accelerate their ability to innovate on AWS
Engage with customers to develop approaches to migrate complex on-premise SAP landscapes to the cloud
Design system landscapes for development, testing, and production across entities, business units, and geographies
Execute customer-facing technology and innovation workshops to showcase SAP on AWS solutions
Work with customers to co-develop GenAI use cases which leverage enterprise SAP data with LLMs
Create prototypes covering solutions that include off-the-shelf and custom-built applications
Assist customers with complex solution sizing of technology components (O/S, Database, Data Warehouses)
Articulate the value of AWS solutions for SAP system high availability, disaster recovery, security, and automation
Develop and deliver customer-facing technology content including whitepapers, blogs, podcasts, and presentations
Position requires travel
About the team
The SA Commercial team is located across Canada (major cities; Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal) and supports clients in the enterprise, independent software vendors (ISV), financial services, small medium business and greenfield sectors leverage their potential with AWS.
SAs typically are:- Passionate about designing and guiding cloud architectural builds
- Dedicated to accelerating and scaling innovation, reducing costs and driving efficiency
- Hands-on, getting into details, and possibly writing demo / proof-of-concept code
- Already broadly capable in architect roles, with plenty of hands-on experience
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AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support.We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.- 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 3-6+ years of exposure to public cloud- 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
- Knowledge of SAP systems (like SAP Business Suite, S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA, SAP Business Objects, etc.) and their architecture and infrastructure needs
- Experience working with end user or developer communities
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