About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our team in Germany. You’ll work closely with SAP and our clients to design performant, composable banking platforms — helping co-create the future of financial services. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong consulting skills and a passion for collaboration.
Key responsibilities
- Represent SAP Fioneer in technical discussions with SAP product owners
- Pitch and lead co-innovation initiatives with clients
- Design architecture for banking/insurance platforms, including banking-specific solution designs for large corporates in areas such as BASEL III, regulatory risk, financial accounting, and reporting
- Participate in our Design Authority Board and make critical design decisions
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and shape architectures for entirely new software
- Support IT transformation projects and landscape design
- Act as a trusted advisor in customer-facing engagements
- Engage with large clients to understand their processes, identify recurring patterns, and feed insights into our internal knowledge base and product strategy
- Collaborate across teams to ensure seamless integration of SAP Fioneer technologies
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience, including proven experience in a senior architecture or solution design role within banking or insurance IT
- Deep banking expertise in financial accounting and risk management is required
- Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and application architecture
- Experience in IT transformation and consulting
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., COBIT, TOGAF)
- Data modeling and business process modeling in a banking context
- Business fluent in English and German
- High flexibility, creativity, and problem-solving mindset
- Comfortable in dynamic, innovative environments
Benefits
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry on an incredibly ambitious project to shape the ever-evolving financial sector. This is an environment where you can have it all - the agility, enthusiasm and dynamism of a start-up, combined with the established expertise, solid market presence and extensive customer network of a more established organisation.
At SAP Fioneer, you will benefit from a flexible work environment that encourages creativity and encourages you to think outside the box, bring new ideas to the table, and challenge the status quo. You will become part of a diverse and global team that we are proud of and are constantly growing and reinventing. As an employee, you will have the chance to chart your own career path and take advantage of competitive compensation packages and progression opportunities based on merit.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes occupational pension provisions, support for health and wellbeing, various mobility options like bike leasing and transportation allowances, as well as additional perks such as celebration rewards, meal programs, jubilee recognition, and relocation reimbursement.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience in senior architecture or solution design role within banking or insurance IT
- Deep banking expertise in financial accounting and risk management
- Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA and application architecture
- Experience in IT transformation and consulting
- Familiarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., COBIT, TOGAF)
- Data modeling and business process modeling in a banking context
- Business fluent in English and German
SAP Fioneer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SAP Fioneer and has not been reviewed or approved by SAP Fioneer.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in core roles, especially in Germany and for senior professionals, with signals that some roles sit above typical market levels in those locations. Feedback suggests overall sentiment toward pay and perks is broadly favorable across major geographies where information is available.
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Flexible Benefits — Hybrid and flexible work are emphasized and widely experienced as part of the package, contributing meaningfully to total rewards. Feedback suggests flexibility is a consistent strength even as specific perks differ by market.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Public postings and materials indicate generous paid time off and holidays in several locations. Feedback suggests time-off provisions are a noticeable plus where detailed benefits are shared.
SAP Fioneer Insights
What We Do
SAP Fioneer builds software and platforms that enable banks, insurance companies, and challengers to run, transform and grow – cost-efficiently and at scale and speed. Backed by global technology leader SAP and entrepreneurial investor Dediq, we are in a unique position to combine the speed and agility of a start-up with the experience and capabilities of a best-in-class software company. Benefiting from a broad network of partners, we aspire to be more than just a vendor: a reliable and safe pair of hands that is there today and tomorrow to put financial services organizations at the cutting edge – from established players to disruptive challengers. As a global business with over 1,000 employees in 22 offices, and over 1,200 customers across 17 countries, SAP Fioneer’s pioneering spirit is fueled by bold creativity and underpinned by its rock-solid technology.
