Principal Enterprise Architect - RISE

SAP is hiring a Principal Enterprise Architect - RISE for a full-time, onsite role based in Auckland, New Zealand. The position sits with the SAP Enterprise Architects team, within SAP Customer Services & Delivery, a global community that helps customers move through meaningful transformation. This is a senior advisory post that puts you in touch with C-level leaders and places you at the heart of SAP’s RISE with SAP and Clean Core strategy. If you enjoy shaping technology at the business level and guiding large-scale changes, you’ll likely feel at home here. You’ll work closely with customers to design and govern architecture programs that unlock cloud adoption and lasting value. The job blends strategy with hands-on delivery, so you’ll need to translate business goals into architectural decisions, ensuring everything you propose aligns with customers’ outcomes. It’s a role for someone who can evolve with the business and technology landscape while keeping a clear focus on results. This is a role for someone who wants real influence in a global, collaborative environment and who’s comfortable engaging with senior executives. SAP values practical, AI-aware approaches to solutions and prefers a hands-on mindset that can drive concrete progress in customer projects.

Steering architecture from strategy to execution

In this role you will steer enterprise architecture across business, application, data, and technology domains, ensuring every move lines up with customer goals. You’ll guide customers on their cloud journey with RISE with SAP, supporting them from initial enterprise archetypes through digital scaling and Clean Core adoption. You’ll act as a transformation partner to CIOs and other CxOs, outlining success plans, value drivers, and clear KPIs that measure real impact. You’ll accelerate adoption of SAP BTP, SAP Business AI, and Clean Core, while spotting and mitigating technical risks along the way. Coordination is key, so you’ll orchestrate stakeholders across the customer organization to keep business goals aligned and value realisation on track. Finally, you’ll work hand-in-hand with account teams to expand SAP adoption and ensure customers and partners align with SAP’s cloud strategy.

What you bring to the role

Must-haves - You bring deep expertise in enterprise architecture, able to design holistic models that span business, data, application, and technology layers - You have hands-on experience with RISE with SAP, Clean Core, and the SAP Enterprise Architecture Framework, including familiarity with LeanIX, Signavio, and Cloud ALM - You’re proficient with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and S/4HANA, across development, automation, analytics, integration, and AI - You’ve proven you can engage at CxO level, matching architecture choices to business goals and value outcomes - You take a practical approach to AI, using AI-assisted tools and automation to build better solutions - A university degree isn’t required for this role Nice-to-haves Nice-to-haves aren’t listed in the posting.

Compensation and the practical bits

The role is onsite in Auckland, New Zealand, and is offered as a full-time position within SAP’s Enterprise Architects team in SAP Customer Services & Delivery. The team is a global community focused on guiding customers through meaningful transformation, and this role sits at the center of SAP’s RISE with SAP and Clean Core initiatives. The posting notes equal opportunity, inclusion, and accessibility commitments, with standard disclaimers about background checks where applicable.

Tips to stand out in your application

Lead your resume with the enterprise architecture leadership you’ve delivered, especially projects that spanned business, data, application, and technology domains, and highlight any hands-on work with RISE with SAP, LeanIX, Signavio, Cloud ALM, and BTP/S/4HANA. Quantify outcomes where you can, such as cloud adoption milestones reached, KPI improvements, or specific value realized for a customer. Show how you’ve proven the must-have skills in concrete terms. Include examples where you led architecture governance across multiple domains, steered a cloud adoption path, and collaborated with C-suite stakeholders to define success metrics and risk mitigations. If you’ve helped customers move to a Clean Core approach or accelerated AI-driven initiatives, feature those outcomes prominently with short case-style narratives. Prepare for interviews by mapping a real project to the role’s expectations: describe the stakeholders you engaged, the KPIs you defined, the governance structure you established, and how you balanced technical constraints with business value. Be ready to discuss how you’d guide a customer through RISE with SAP from archetype to scale, and how you’d mitigate adoption risks along the way. Ask a thoughtful question during your conversations that shows you’ve studied SAP’s cloud strategy and the NZ market. For example, you might ask how SAP envisions aligning local customer journeys with the broader RISE with SAP roadmap, or how success is measured for architectural transformations in the region and what role you’d play in driving value realization for those customers.