Job Information
Lumen LEAD ARCHITECT in SINGAPORE, Singapore
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The Role
The role is part of the APAC Product & Services team and is responsible for helping support Lumen’s Enterprise Applications - SAP business across the Asia-Pacific region.
The Main Responsibilities
Reporting into the Director for Product & Services (IT Agility), the position will have 3 core responsibilities which include pre-sales, product management and customer management.
Pre-sales responsibilities will involve guiding and supporting the APAC Sales and Solution Engineering teams in positioning and selling Lumen’s Enterprise Applications - SAP offerings with existing as well as new logo customers to ensure annual sales targets for the Enterprise Applications business are met.
Product management responsibilities include partnering with the global Product Management teams on product enablement and localization, as well as providing inputs to them on APAC specific requirements.
Customer Management responsibilities includes managing existing SAP HEC/Managed SAP customer, ensuring delivery of SAP team meets the SLA of the service deliver to existing customers, reports are promptly generated, handle escalations by customers, and financial billing of customers.
In addition, this position will also be responsible for establishing and working with our strategic partners here i.e. SAP, AWS, Microsoft Azure in Asia Pacific to strengthen our Enterprise Applications - SAP application/basis portfolio offering.
What We Look For in a Candidate
Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a SAP Basis/Application Lead / Technical Lead / Technical Architecture with at least 3 full implementation, upgrade or migration life cycles in a SAP team.
Strong consultative skills with the ability to define and articulate value propositions for customer solutions in support of SAP migrations/ implementations / upgrades.
End to end pre-sales experience including SAP landscape sizing / architecture, responding to RFPs, performing C-Level client presentations and coordinating with delivery teams.
Deep and broad technical knowledge of SAP applications including SAP S/4HANA, ERP 6.0, BW, CRM, SRM, EP, HANA, PO, BOBJ, SAP Cloud (HEC), SAP Cloud solutions etc.
Deep knowledge of SAP HANA technology including features, capabilities and application integration.
Prior experience interfacing with account teams, customer IT and executive management to define requirements, provide technical/application advisory as well as recommend / propose solutions.
Hands on experience with full life cycle implementation of 3 or more SAP projects.
Ability to lead technical/application teams or work independently to provide architectural guidance.
What We Look for in a Candidate:
Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science required from an accredited university
Prior experience with SAP HEC standards, pricing, architecture and delivery process is preferred.
Experience working with private or public cloud technologies especially AWS/Azure/Google Cloud is preferred.
Data warehousing background is preferred.
Knowledge of SAP product suite including future roadmap.
Prior experience presenting at conferences or customer events.
Sound knowledge of SAP Netweaver solution stack including SAP security, ABAP, Java etc.
Experience working with SAP partner eco-systems including Service Marketplace, SCN, OpenSAP
Knowledge of SAP LOB solutions including IBP, BPC, HCP, Ariba, Success Factors, Field Glass, Concur etc.
Established relationships with SAP account, architecture teams in APAC.
Compensation
What to Expect Next
Requisition #: 333194
EEO Statement
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Disclaimer
The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions.