SAP Managing Analytics Architect

Who you'll be working with

You will join Capgemini's SAP Data & Analytics Practice, a market-leading team delivering complex business transformation programmes across the UK and globally. Working as a senior leader within our SAP capability, you will partner with C-suite stakeholders, business executives, enterprise architects and technology leaders to define and execute strategic data and analytics roadmaps.

As a Managing Analytics Architect, you will be responsible for shaping enterprise-wide SAP analytics strategies across major SAP S/4HANA transformation programmes. You will work alongside SAP architects, industry specialists, data scientists and advisory teams to help clients modernise their analytics capabilities through SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud, Embedded Analytics and AI-enabled decision-making platforms.

You will also play a key leadership role within Capgemini, contributing to solution development, client account growth, capability building and the ongoing evolution of our SAP Data & Analytics offerings.

The focus of your role

• As a SAP Managing Analytics Architect, you will provide strategic leadership and architectural governance across complex analytics and data transformation programmes.
• You will work directly with executive stakeholders to define future-state analytics architectures, operating models and business intelligence strategies that enable organisations to become truly data-driven enterprises.

Key responsibilities include:

• •Leading the end-to-end architecture and design of enterprise SAP analytics and data platforms.
• •Defining analytics strategies aligned to broader SAP S/4HANA business transformation programmes.
• •Acting as a trusted advisor to CIOs, CDOs, CFOs and business executives on data and analytics strategy.
• •Designing target-state SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud architectures.
• •Establishing enterprise reporting, data governance and semantic modelling frameworks.
• •Leading analytics assessments, maturity reviews and transformation roadmaps.
• •Defining data products, business semantic layers and enterprise information models.
• •Providing architectural oversight across multiple delivery workstreams and transformation programmes.
• •Advising clients on the migration of SAP BW and BW/4HANA landscapes to SAP's strategic cloud data architecture.
• •Developing analytics operating models, governance structures and best-practice frameworks.
• •Collaborating with AI, Data, Cloud and Enterprise Architecture teams to create integrated business solutions.
• •Leading architecture workshops, executive presentations and steering committee engagements.
• •Supporting pre-sales activities, business development and major proposal responses.
• •Mentoring and developing consulting teams, architects and technical specialists.
• •Identifying opportunities for innovation through AI, automation and data-driven decision intelligence.

What you'll bring

Essential Skills and Experience:

• •Extensive experience delivering enterprise-scale SAP Analytics and Data Transformation programmes.
• •Proven experience leading analytics architecture engagements for complex organisations.
• •Deep expertise across SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Business Data Cloud.
• •Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics and operational reporting frameworks.
• •Expertise in enterprise data architecture, information management and analytics strategy.
• •Strong understanding of SAP BW, BW on HANA and BW/4HANA architectures.
• •Experience designing modern Business Data Fabric and cloud-based analytics solutions.
• •Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality and metadata management frameworks.
• •Experience developing executive-level analytics and data transformation strategies.
• •Ability to engage credibly with Executive Committees, Boards and senior business stakeholders.
• •Strong consulting, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• •Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and large-scale transformation programmes.
• •Strong understanding of enterprise architecture methodologies and governance models.
• •Experience operating within complex matrix organisations and consulting environments.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• •Experience leading SAP Business Data Cloud transformation initiatives.
• •Knowledge of SAP AI, Joule and Business AI capabilities.
• •Experience with SAP Data Intelligence and SAP Integration Suite.
• •Understanding of Master Data Management and SAP Master Data Governance (MDG).
• •Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud data platforms.
• •Experience with Data Mesh and Data Product operating models.
• •Knowledge of AI, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics architectures.
• •SAP Activate methodology experience.
• •TOGAF, SAFe or equivalent architecture certifications.
• •SAP Analytics Cloud, Datasphere or Business Data Cloud certifications.
• •Experience supporting clients within Financial Services, Public Sector, Utilities, Manufacturing or Consumer Products sectors.
• •Experience leading global delivery and offshore engagement models.

Additional Information:

• Hybrid Working: The role operates within Capgemini's hybrid working model, combining home working, office collaboration and client-site attendance depending on business and project requirements.
• Successful applicants will undergo pre-employment screening, including identity verification, employment history checks, nationality and right-to-work validation, and criminal record screening where applicable.

What we'll offer you

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

What we’ll offer you

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why we’re different

At Capgemini, we help organisations across the world become more agile, more competitive, and more successful. Smart, tailored, often ground-breaking technical solutions to complex problems are the norm. But so, too, is a culture that’s as collaborative as it is forward thinking. Working closely with each other, and with our clients, we get under the skin of businesses and to the heart of their goals. You will too.

Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age, and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.