Principal Development Architect

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Summary

Were looking for a visionaryPrincipal Development Architectto join SAPsBusiness Data Cloud Technology Office a central team driving the future of SAPs data management and intelligent enterprise strategy. This is a highimpact crossorganizational role where you will help define the architecture of SAPs nextgeneration cloud and data services shaping how data and AI power business outcomes across SAPs portfolio.

You will work alongside some of the most experienced architects in the industry influencing product direction across SAP defining architectural standards and enabling development teams to deliver scalable AIready data products at enterprise scale.

What youll do

• Define and evolve thecurrent and future architecturefor the Business Data Cloud & Integration (BDC&I) platform and services with a strong focus onAIenabled datadriven architectures.
• Work handson withleadingedge technologies including modern data platforms lakehouse architectures data fabrics and AIdriven analytics.
• Actively collaborate with internal stakeholders and business partners to understand customer scenarios translate needs into architectural concepts and align ideas across units and the wider SAP organization.
• Drive architectural concepts from strategy to execution by building theorganizational structures processes and networksrequired for broad adoption across development teams in close partnership with product management.
• Serve as aspearhead of the development organization embedding within teams to drive and align architecture topics across SAP including participation in SAPs central architecture alignment boards.
• Lead architecture and technology strategy from definition into real project execution working across distributed teams within SAP BDC&I and LineofBusiness (LoB) development organizations.
• Enable and fosterLoB adoption of data products recognizing that the success of the Business Data Cloud depends on scalable highquality and AIready data offerings delivered by the LoBs.
• ChampionAI adoption and AIassisted development practices helping teams responsibly leverage AI to improve productivity quality and innovation while meeting SAPs enterprise standards.

This opportunity is ideal for a highly motivated individual with strong enterprise customer thinking architectural depth and the ambition to influence SAPs longterm data and AI strategy in a fastmoving highly collaborative environment.

What you bring

AI & Intelligent Systems

• A strongAI adoption mindset with the ability to identify evaluate and scale AI use cases that create tangible business value within enterprise data platforms.
• Experience leveragingAIassisted developmenttools and practices to increase development velocity code quality and architectural consistency while understanding governance security and compliance implications.
• Knowledge ofagentic orchestration concepts including coordinating AI agents tools and workflows across complex system landscapes.
• Experience in or strong understanding ofagentic engineering applying software engineering best practices (modularity observability lifecycle management scalability) to AIdriven and autonomous systems.
• Proven ability to leverage AI technologies fordata management analytics and SAP Business AI including contributions to shared technical building blocks.

Data Engineering & Cloud Architecture

• Deep expertise incloudbased data platforms analytics data management and data integration technologies includinglakehouse architectures and data fabric concepts.
• Handson experience withdata engineeringfoundations such as scalable data pipelines Sparkbased processing and object store technologies.
• Strong background indata integrationacross SAP and nonSAP data sources data lakes and enterprise applications.
• Established track record as a seniorarchitect working withanalytics and data management engineering teams including leadership in largescale data warehousing initiatives.
• Practical experience operatingcloudscale services in production with a solid understanding of scalability resilience and operational excellence.

SAP Data & Analytics Ecosystem

• Deep familiarity with theSAP data and analytics ecosystem including SAP HANA Cloud SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BTPbased data platform approaches.
• Experience integrating SAP and nonSAP data to enable advanced analytics planningand AI scenarios as well thrive for master data management excellence.
• Understanding of SAP data models performance considerations security and governance best practices.
• Building enterprise readiness products systems and landscapes.

Leadership Communication & Mindset

• Proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments balance architectural tradeoffs and combine pragmatic delivery with longterm strategic thinking and drive long term success. Integrating different teams observation points and use cases from product managementtowards one common long term goal and influence road map planning.
• Excellent presentation communication and publicspeaking skills with the ability to influence and align stakeholders atCsuite level and above.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to drive complex product and technologyrelated discussions internally and externally to customers and partners as well on stage.
• High selfmotivation a positive cando attitude and the ability to thrive in fastpaced ambiguous environments.
• Strong customer and partner orientation with experience working in largescale software development and architectural initiatives.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field with senior level experience of 7 years.

Meet your team

The SAP BDC&I Development organization brings together the powerful capabilities ofSAP HANA Cloud SAP Datasphere SAP Analytics Cloud and applicationspecific data platform approaches into a harmonized endtoend ecosystem. Our mission is to unlock the full information value chainenabling customers to understand the past predict the future and confidently drive decisions based on trusted AIready data through entirely new cloud services and experiences.

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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
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Due to the nature of the role which involves global interactions with SAP entities as well as with employees and stakeholders in Canada functional proficiency in English is required for positions based in the Quebec.

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Requisition ID: 453515 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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Experience: years
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