Development Expert

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: 10-15+ 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.