Senior Services Engagement Engineer

Job description / Role

Overview

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.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies, and sustain our environment. Because it's the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people's lives.

SAP Premium Engagements—namely SAP MaxAttention and SAP ActiveAttention—are white glove and strategic engagements with SAP's largest customers. Both engagements provide premium advisory and support services for the customer journey to the Intelligent Enterprise.

For the delivery of SAP Premium Engagements, SAP is looking for a Technical Quality Manager (TQM) to serve our customers as trusted advisors, onsite at our customer's premises, focusing as much on the customer's business as on the customer's technical environment. As a TQM you are accountable for the day-to-day execution of the SAP Premium Engagements portfolio and service plan, methods and tools, and best practices across all systems, landscapes, and platforms.

You are responsible for executing on the customer's value-based, digital transformation roadmap, making full use of SAP Innovation Services, orchestrating the prototyping of business scenarios, fostering a platform for ideation and innovation, and capturing the value of SAP Premium Engagements. You will develop and demonstrate a premium level of understanding of the customer's strategic business goals, business processes, landscape, industry norms, and all available and late-breaking technology as well as newly developed SAP Premium Engagement services. As a technology and business aficionado, you guide your customers on the proper adoption and deployment of predictive analytics, the internet of things, machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, drones and sensors, and the positive impact these technological advancements can have on your customer, their employees and workplace safety, their end-customers, and the environment.

The TQM demonstrates a premium level of enthusiasm for technology-enabled business advancements, clearly articulating to the customer current technology trends including public and private cloud, on-prem and hybrid technologies and trends; disruptive technologies, the industry of automation, machine learning, cloud bursting, visualization, PAAS, SAAS, IAAS, IoT, Industry 4.0, cybersecurity, big data, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital twin, smart factories, and so on. The TQM collaboratively aligns and coordinates with all other customer-relevant SAP employees and keeps the regional SAP leadership team and the customer's SAP Premium Engagements team aware of progress, risks, challenges, and accomplishments.

The TQM demonstrates a premium level of enthusiasm and understanding of the:

• Customer's strategy and requirements
• Customer's solution landscape
• Customer's business processes
• Customer's industry

Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains a strong customer relationship and works to be recognized as a trusted advisor providing unbiased guidance, ensuring empowerment of the customer team
• Collaborates with any system integrator (SI) of the customer, providing corrective action when the SI is heading down the wrong path or providing incorrect recommendations to the customer. The TQM diplomatically highlights the risks and provides alternate SAP recommendations. Captures and reports how the engagement is driving business value to the customer
• Executes on the customer's digital transformation roadmap, creating and modifying the SAP Premium Engagements service plan as needed to drive success
• Orchestrates prototyping of business scenarios and drives realization for positive outcomes
• Supports the technical integration of the entire solution and product set, end to end, across all landscapes and platforms, providing recommendations for technical or business process improvements
• Provides a platform and forum for ideation and innovation for business scenarios
• Identifies top issues, defines the associated action plan, and drives the resolution process, always providing the customer with immediate help in crisis situations

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's STEM degree: science, technology, engineering, math and/or equivalent experience in the field of technology
• Fluency in English and Arabic national language
• Equivalent experience in the field of technology is defined as 8+ years of hands-on experience in SAP either on cloud, platform, application technology (BASIS), solution, app programming or development. Preferred SAP HANA, SAP S/4 HANA, SAP Cloud Platform experience, artificial or real-time intelligence, machine learning, automation experience
• Exceptional written and spoken communication skills in English and Arabic, strong business acumen and presentation skills, ability to think freely and innovatively, strong cultural awareness, respect, diplomacy, and professionalism, and is highly customer service oriented with strong customer management skills
• Strong SAP project management and value-based relationship management skills
• Proven problem-solving skills and strong work ethic are required
• The following certifications are preferred:
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Cloud
  • Programming
  • SAP (products, solutions, applications, technical)

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone—regardless of background—feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of equal employment opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Additional information

• Work area: Consulting and Professional Services
• Career status: Professional
• Employment type: Regular full time
• Expected travel: 0 - 10%
• Location: Riyadh, SA, 11435

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.