SAP S/4HANA Architect & Technical Service Manager - Sovereign Cloud Delivery Germany (m/f/d)

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.     COMPANY DESCRIPTION SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality, and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures. SAP recently decided to combine and harmonize all SAP Sovereign Cloud offerings, establishing an end-to-end process for the Public Sector and regulated industries. The newly created Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations business unit is part of SAP Product Engineering with responsibility across the relevant Sovereign Cloud portfolio of SAP. Global Sovereign Cloud Delivery & Operations is collaborating closely with all Board areas to establish a harmonized, scalable, and consistent offering with transparent and standardized deliverables. YOUR FUTURE ROLE We are looking for an S/4HANA Architect / Technical Service Manager within SAP Sovereign Cloud. You will act as the primary technical owner and strategic advisor for customer private cloud landscapes, driving stability and optimization, and contributing to architectural improvements. In this role, you will drive proactive risk management, provide architectural guidance, and oversee end-to-end technical governance - empowering customers to achieve secure, reliable, and scalable cloud operations aligned with their business goals. As an Architect / TSM you deliver fixed-scope, proactive and outcome-based services across the entire SAP software stack to SAP's Sovereign Cloud customers. This team is dedicated to customer centricity, client intimacy and support of client lifecycle management. Your core tasks include but are not limited to:

Provide strategic cloud architecture and technical governance leadership, defining roadmaps, standards, and best practices that optimise the landscape and align with business objectives and long-term sustainability. Lead key landscape lifecycle activities and transformation initiatives, including upgrades, migrations, disaster recovery testing, major changes, and adoption of SAP S/4HANA, Clean Core principles, and cloud capabilities. Own the end-to-end technical health of customer cloud landscapes, ensuring stability, performance, scalability, compliance, and effective coordination across customers and internal stakeholders. Proactively identify and manage risks, critical issues, and escalations, driving preventive actions and coordinating timely resolution through close engagement with customers and internal teams. Drive automation, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement, ensuring reliable operations, measurable business outcomes, and value realization from cloud investments.

WHAT YOU BRING

Strong technical expertise in SAP technologies with several years of hands-on SAP Basis experience (REQUIRED) in both implementation and steady-state scenarios; knowledge of operating systems, databases, networking, disaster recovery/HA and technical architecture is considered essential to being successful in this role. Extensive experience in SAP technical administration and operations (7+ years). Extensive experience in the SAP RISE methodology and SAP migrations. Experience with SAP HANA and Linux environments (5+ years) is highly valued. Customer-focused experience in technical