Java Development Expert _ Pune

Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures. SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment.

What you'll do:

- AI-First Architecture: Define SAP's strategy for AI-native enterprise applications, establishing patterns for generative AI, machine learning operations, and intelligent automation across the entire procurement ecosystem.
- BTP Platform Evolution: Influence the roadmap and architecture of SAP's Business Technology Platform, driving innovation in areas like AI services, integration patterns, and developer experience improvements.
- Next-Generation Delivery: Pioneer the future of enterprise software delivery through advanced continuous delivery, automated experimentation, and AI-powered deployment optimization across global SAP operations.
- Intelligent Development: Shape SAP's developer experience strategy, including AI-assisted development tools, automated code generation, and intelligent development workflow optimization.
- Enterprise AI Integration: Establish architectural patterns for responsible AI integration in enterprise contexts, including governance, explainability, and compliance frameworks.
- Global Platform Standards: Define enterprise architecture standards that leverage BTP's capabilities while ensuring security, compliance, and performance at global scale.
- Innovation Acceleration: Drive SAP's competitive advantage through strategic technology adoption, platform capabilities, and development practices that differentiate SAP in the enterprise market.
- Industry Transformation: Represent SAP's technical vision in industry forums, influencing the future direction of enterprise software architecture and development practices.
- Technical Complexity: Enterprise AI strategy, platform evolution, industry-leading development practices
- Ownership: Portfolio-level technical strategy with responsibility for SAP's competitive technical advantage
- Mentoring: Develops organizational capabilities in AI, modern practices, and platform thinking across multiple engineering organizations
- Cross-team Collaboration: Influences company-wide technical strategy and partners with product leadership and customer executives
- System Design: Defines SAP's enterprise architecture strategy and influences industry standards
- Experience: 10-15+ years with 8+ years in architectural leadership, with deep expertise in AI, platform development, and modern practices

What you'll bring:

- Strategic Technology Leadership:

- Enterprise Java Expertise: Mastery of enterprise Java ecosystem, Spring portfolio, and large-scale application architecture

- Technology Strategy: Proven ability to evaluate and adopt new technologies across multiple programming paradigms and platforms

- Enterprise Integration Mastery:

- Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, distributed databases, and data governance at scale

- Advanced knowledge of integration standards (OData, SOAP, REST, GraphQL) and enterprise integration patterns

- Experience with enterprise protocols, messaging systems, and real-time data processing architectures

- Platform Architecture:

- Extensive experience designing platform-as-a-service solutions and multi-tenant enterprise applications

- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, service mesh, and global-scale distributed systems

- Experience with enterprise integration platforms, API management, and developer platform design

- AI & Modern Practices:

- (Nice to have) Strategic experience integrating AI/ML into enterprise applications and development workflows

- Leadership in advanced DevOps practices, continuous delivery, and modern development methodologies at enterprise scale

- Industry Influence: Proven track record of representing technical vision externally, contributing to industry standards, and influencing technology adoption across large organizations

About the team:

You'll join the SAP Procurement Engineering organization within our Intelligent Spend Management group, contributing to transforming how enterprises manage their procurement processes.

Your Authority: You'll influence technical decisions across the entire procurement portfolio, working directly with senior engineering leadership and product executives to shape SAP's procurement technology strategy.

Your Legacy: Your architectural vision will define how enterprises manage procurement for the next decade, impacting millions of users and billions of dollars in global enterprise spend.

Your Competitive Impact: Drive SAP's technical differentiation in the market through innovative use of AI, advanced development practices, and platform capabilities that create sustainable competitive advantages.

Your Technical Vision: Shape how enterprise software will be built for the next decade, influencing not just SAP but the entire industry through your architectural decisions and technical leadership.

Your Platform Power: Work with SAP's comprehensive Business Technology Platform and influence its evolution, giving you capabilities to implement technical visions that would be impossible at smaller companies or traditional enterprises.

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you're searching for a company that's dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: [Confidential Information]
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the . Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 432274 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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