Cloud Solution Architect - SAP on Azure at Microsoft

Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:

• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to define highly complex technology-based business solutions. Provides thought leadership regarding application design, architecture, and integration.
• Drive the deployment of SAP Landscapes onto the Azure platform to a successful customer outcome in large enterprises
• Acts as the subject matter expert for running SAP workloads on Azure, and support customer/partner deployments with SAP deployment guidance, supporting development of the customers’ SAP on cloud adoption model, and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers
• Development and review technical architecture, and solution design for partner-led solution development
• Ensures solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Collaborate with other Cloud Solution Architects in developing complex end to end Enterprise scale solutions on Microsoft Azure platform
• Develop deep relationships with key customer decision makers and enable them to become cloud advocates
• Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights
• Be the Voice of the Customer and share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities
• Assess the Customers' knowledge of SAP on Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensure its delivery through partners

Qualifications
Experiences Required – Education, Key Experiences, Knowledge and Skills:

Professional

• Experience. 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications required
• Relationship Building. Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives in large or highly strategic accounts. Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects. required
• Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies required
• Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management, Database administrators and Data Scientist) required

 
Technical

• Enterprise-scale technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management. required
• Subject matter expertise in one or more of the following: required
• Deep domain expertise in SAP with strong Basis skills i.e. SAP landscape sizing, deployment, transport management, optimizing features, system performance.
• 5+ years’ experience as a SAP Basis Architect, NetWeaver architecture and SAP Hands on in SAP performance investigations throughout the complete stack of SAP application, DBMS, OS and infrastructure to be able to trace, capture, diagnose and isolate complex multifactorial performance problems
• 5+ years of experience in SAP Basis: OS/DB Migration, SAP Sizing, SAP HA/DR Design, SAP Operational Best Practices, SAP version upgrades
• 3+ years’ experience in RDBMS: deep knowledge including performance query analysis, sizing, HA/DR and storage/disk design of SAP HANA and at least 1-2 of the following: SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MaxDB
• 3+ years’ experience Hyper-Visor/Cloud/Networking: Able to design, deploy and troubleshoot solutions based on the following: Azure or AW0053
• Working knowledge of SUSE or RedHat for SAP with preferred experience in SCP with Cloud Foundry
• 5+ years proficient operational experience with Linux operating systems (Suse/RHEL required). Experience in configuring packages, monitoring, and security for Linux
• Knowledge of Network Architecture and standards for large enterprise deployments (Cisco SAFE/Zoning models) and operation understanding security frameworks specific to IT Standards (PCI/PII/SOX/ETC)
• Storage technologies and testing specific to enterprise storage requirements (SAN/NAS/Object/Block)
• Monitoring tool proficiency (OMS, Solution Manager, Zenoss, Zabbix, Tivoli)
• Very good understanding/ experience on multiple SAP products and understanding of SAP roadmap
• Demonstrated ability to size SAP landscape deployments, monitoring and management of these environments
• Troubleshooting experience specific to network connectivity, storage performance, operating systems optimization
• Able to produce technical documentation consistent with Reference Architecture principles
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers)
• Knowledge of cloud development platforms, able to articulate value proposition of MS technologies over competition (like AWS, GCP, Virtustream, Hana Enterprise Cloud etc.) preferred
• Understanding of partner ecosystems and the ability to leverage partner solutions to solve customer needs preferred 

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or related field preferred
• Certification in the following technologies preferred: Cloud, mobile, web application development, cloud-native application architecture (i.e. containers, microservices, API management), modern software development techniques like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure developer services, GitHub) and container orchestration systems (i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub). preferred

 
Experiences:

• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as SAP, SalesForce, Amazon, VMware, Google, IBM, Accenture, T-Systems, Wipro, CSC, HP, Infosys, ServiceNow, Dell, TCS, Rackspace, Softlayer desired