Lead SAP Analytics Architect - Permanent

SAP, lot of experience, consultant

United Kingdom

This is a senior, client-facing architecture role for someone who wants to shape the future of SAP data and analytics. You will help clients modernise their data foundations, move beyond traditional reporting, and unlock trusted, AI-ready insights across SAP and wider enterprise platforms.

As Lead SAP Analytics Architect, you will be responsible for the shaping, sales and delivery of pragmatic, future-ready SAP analytics solutions for our clients. You will bring a strong consultancy background and the credibility to advise senior stakeholders, connect business ambition to data architecture, and turn complex analytics challenges into clear, high-value outcomes.

You will play a key role in growing our SAP Analytics capability, helping to define how we position, design and deliver modern analytics solutions in the market. You will take ownership of analytics responses on smaller bids, lead the analytics workstream on larger enterprise opportunities, and raise standards across solution design, delivery quality and client engagement.

About delaware

We exist to help our clients reach their full potential, by applying our common sense, business experience and passion for technology.

Delaware is a global consultancy that partners with leading technology providers such as SAP (Platinum Partner) and Microsoft to deliver advanced digital solutions. We develop, innovate and implement technology transformations guiding our clients towards an intelligent future.

Everyone at Delaware is a steward of the business. We are building for the future and for those that succeed us and we take responsibility for our relationship with the social and ecological environment.

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Rhylan Harris

What will you be doing?

Leading SAP Analytics sales opportunities for large enterprise clients, building credibility quickly with senior business and technology stakeholders.
Owning SAP Analytics responses on bids, shaping clear, compelling and commercially sound solutions.
Acting as the lead architect across discovery, data strategy, solution design and delivery of SAP analytics solutions.
Advising clients on modern analytics architecture, with a focus on SAP Business Data Cloud as part of a coherent, scalable data and insight platform.
Translating business needs into well-defined technical requirements, ensuring alignment between business objectives and implementation approach.
Overseeing the delivery of analytics solutions, ensuring quality, consistency and alignment with industry best practice.
Providing direction, guidance and technical leadership to delaware UK analytics team members.
Helping clients define their roadmap from SAP BW towards SAP Business Data Cloud, including how to modernise data models, reporting capabilities and analytics operating models where relevant.
Collaborating closely with sales, delivery, SAP and wider consulting teams to grow opportunities and support successful client outcomes.

Is there a match?

Strong experience as an SAP Analytics Lead or Architect within a consultancy or systems integrator environment.
Proven ability to lead analytics sales opportunities, shape propositions and contribute confidently to client bids.
Able to build credibility quickly with senior stakeholders, understand their priorities and guide them towards the right analytics solution.
Experience working with modern SAP data and analytics platforms, ideally including SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud.
Strong understanding of SAP data and analytics architecture, including integration with S/4HANA, SAP business applications and wider enterprise data platforms.
Experience with SAP BW and migration from SAP BW to SAP Business Data Cloud would be highly beneficial.
Awareness of SAP Autonomous Enterprise and how trusted, governed data from SAP Business Data Cloud can support AI-enabled transformation would be advantageous.
Confident leading workshops, presentations and solution design discussions with both business and technical audiences.
Skilled in guiding, coaching and influencing individuals or teams, creating a collaborative and high-performance delivery environment.
Comfortable balancing sales, architecture and delivery responsibilities while maintaining a strong focus on quality, client value and reusable propositions that can help scale the practice.
Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify opportunities, manage risks and provide practical recommendations.

If you enjoy combining client advisory, modern data architecture and direct delivery leadership, this role offers the opportunity to shape a growing SAP Analytics capability and help clients realise more value from their SAP data investments.

Our Culture and Values

We attract and retain only the best people who share our values and thrive in our culture. We strive for the highest levels of excellence in all that we do – with our clients, our people, our business, our careers.

We do the right thing to satisfy our clients, combining quiet confidence and a human touch. We are open, positive, enthusiastic and energetic. At Delaware we value and invest in personal competence as much as technical competence and we all want to help each other succeed. We value diversity for the breadth of perspectives and skills it brings us and the better results it produces.

We enjoy each other’s company. We work hard together and we have fun together. We trust one another.

Underpinning our culture are our core values. They are a living part of our daily interactions, influencing what we do and how we do it. They guide how we work with our colleagues, customers, and partners.

Care - we take responsibility. Commitment - we commit, we deliver. Community - we are better together. Respect - inclusive and diverse. Entrepreneurship - we cherish creativity and drive.

Let's meet!

Come have a chat with us and tell us all about your skills, talents and previous experience.

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Right to work

Please note that it is a legal requirement that you have the right to work in the UK by the time you commence employment. We therefore ask those shortlisted for interview to provide evidence of their right to work in the UK during the recruitment process.

Delaware holds a sponsor licence but not all roles are suitable for sponsorship, especially as, in some cases, individuals are required to work on long term client contracts, and this is not permitted under the sponsorship regime. Also, in some case individuals may be required to work in Ireland or elsewhere in Europe at short notice. If you do not currently have the right to work in the UK we will still consider your application.

If your application is successful beyond the first interview stage we will consider whether sponsorship is a possibility or, where appropriate, whether there are any other immigration options available but unfortunately we cannot guarantee that sponsorship will always be possible.

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