Development Expert

We help the world run better

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Role :

• 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: years with 8+ years in architectural leadership, with deep expertise in AI, platform development, and modern practices

Role Requirements:

• 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 – apply now

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 world.

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