Senior Data Engineer Operations SAP Enterprise Knowledge Graph

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Whatyoullbuild

The SAP Global Content Group (GCG) Engineering team builds the SAP Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) integrating SAPs reference business data across products processes and business objects into a unified semantic layer. To create and maintain the EKG we develop an internal platform that exposes the knowledge graph via data access APIs and AI-powered services and powers a neuro-symbolic AI application that enables intelligent search reasoning and knowledge exploration across SAPs enterprise data. This platform runs on a Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure on SAPs Business Technology Platform (BTP)operatingcontinuously to serve users and dependent services around the globe.

As a Senior Data Engineer in our Content Infrastructure & Automation team based in India you are a senior individual contributor who owns complex data engineering challenges end-to-end and serves as the teams critical operational anchor during European off-hours:

• Design build andoperatethe data ingestion transformation and delivery pipelines that feed the Enterprise Knowledge Graph ensuring correctness completeness and freshness of knowledge at scale.
• Own the reliability and operational health of our Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring system state diagnosing incidents and independently restoring services when issues arise outside European business hours.
• Be the first responder for platform incidents during India business hours: triage alerts assess impact execute recovery procedures and hand off with clear context to the European team ensuring the system is stable before they start their day.
• Develop and evolve knowledge graph data models RDF-based ontologies and SPARQL queries that structure and power our AI applications reasoning and retrieval capabilities.
• Build automated data quality checks and evaluation pipelines that detect regressions and ensure the knowledge graphremainsaccurateand consistent.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and infrastructure-as-code supporting reliable automated delivery.
• Collaborate with architects engineers and product owners across time zones to deliver platform improvements and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Mentor junior engineersondata engineering practices Kubernetes operations and knowledge graph fundamentals.

What you bring

• Total of 10 years of professional experience
• 6 years of professional experience in data engineering or backend software engineering withdemonstratedownership of production systems.
• Strong hands-on Kubernetesexpertise: you are comfortable diagnosing pod failures inspecting logs managing deployments and restoring service health independently without waiting for guidance.
• Solid experience with cloud-native infrastructure on a major cloud platform (SAP BTP AWS GCP or Azure); familiarity with HelmK8s OperatorsCrossplane FluxArgoCDkubectl and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Proven experience building and operating data pipelines at scale including ETL/ELT workflows streaming infrastructure (Kafka or similar) data validation and pipeline monitoring.
• Comfortoperatingas an on-call engineer: you can independently triage and resolve incidents distinguish signal from noise and communicate status clearly to a distributed team.
• Experience with observability tooling: Grafana Prometheus alertingwith BTP Alert and Notification service and log analysis.
• Solid understanding of knowledgegraphor semantic technologies (RDF OWL SPARQL) or a demonstrable aptitude and motivation to develop thisexpertisequickly.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with TypeScript or Java is an advantage.
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to collaborate asynchronously and hand off clearly across time zones.
• Computer Science Information technology or a related field.

Where you belong

SAP Global Content Group (GCG) builds the Enterprise Knowledge Graph to unify SAPs business and system knowledge delivering it via a platform and a neuro-symbolic AI application used across SAP and by external customers. This role is based in India our India team is primarilylocatedin Gurgaon and plays a pivotal part in ensuring global service continuity: you are the teams operational presence during hours when Europe is offline. Join a global team of engineers researchers and AIexpertsbuilding the semantic foundation of SAPs intelligent enterprise.

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Requisition ID: 453914 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid