Client Technology SAP: Technology Presales Architect (Mannheim)

Client Technology SAP: Technology Presales Architect (Mannheim)

Location: Eschborn / Frankfurt (Main)

Other locations: Anywhere in Region

Salary: Competitive

Date: Jul 19, 2026

Job description

Requisition ID: 1697879

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The opportunity

As an EY SAP Technology Presales, you directly help EY & clients with a highly efficient, optimised and precise pursuit proposals that leverage EYs Technology assets and capabilities to transform and manage their business.

Your key responsibilities

Client Interaction: As a trusted advisor, you will harvest requirements from the client and translate these into a solution that meets the objectives and principles agreed with the client. You will be part of a pursuit team and lead the technology aspect of it. You will be leveraging your technical knowledge, experience & deep understanding of both – project scope & EYs technology (focus: SAP-build technology) capabilities/products. You are a technical leader, serving as a liaison among business partners, delivery leadership and pursuit stakeholders.

Pursuit shaping: This is critical role in the architecture & solution design lifecycle cutting along the pursuit lifecycle. As a Technology Presales Architect, you are a technical leaders with strong understanding of technology and ability to apply it to drive business outcomes. You will provide guidance for the solution & pursuit definition, presales thought leadership, ascertain technical delivery possibilities & costs involved for the top critical business solution implementations - based on various available EY Technology products, tools & processes.

Technology Presales development by working with a wide variety of internal stakeholders, namely Product Owners (SAP Technology Officers and Product Managers), Business Owners (in the Service Lines), EY SAP Delivery Teams and GDS (Global Delivery Services). The Technology Presales Architect is involved in envisioning, design and development of the pursuit design and response, with a broad focus around EYs SAP delivery and technology capabilities for the enterprise, industry, platform and solutions. Any identified technology gaps will be addressed through established channels such as available Innovation and product capabilities.

Essential Functions of the Job:

Presales / Pursuit Architecture & Solutioning for mid to large scale pursuits

Provide thought leadership of a Technology Presales Architect with the service line pursuit /business teams during deal development, pursuit & close phases.

Having deep understanding of SAP Technology and EYs SAP drivers, products, tools & processes to stitch the right solution that delivers value add for the client

Establish Presales standards, guidelines and procedures to overall increase the success rate of client pursuits for EY overall (and the EY SAP alliance particularly)

Hands on in creating E2E solution architecture with an alignment with overall EA and IT Roadmap of specific clients.

Shape RFP responses and bring in incisive insights from Tech experience.

Bringing the outside in approach, ensure an objective analysis and provide actionable recommendation in the form of underpinned solutions.

Current As-is Architecture as well as Transition Architecture and roadmap steps to reach the Target Architecture

Address identified technology gaps during a pursuit cycle to the respective innovation and product teams and come up with innovative, creative mitigation plans / solutions.