Chief Architect - SAP AI Core Generative AI Hub 407865

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Meet our team
SAP AI Core Product Engineering Team is part of the SAP Business AI unit and one of the key drivers of the Intelligent Enterprise. SAPs vision is to bring out the best in every business and to become the #1 enterprise application and business AI company by infusing business AI across the SAP product portfolio. Our vision for AI Core is to provide a hub that offers a seamless endtoend journey for product engineering teams in SAP and our ecosystem accelerating time to market value for AI developments.

We are responsible for foundational products such as SAP Generative AI Hub AI Core and AI Launchpad that help application AI Developers infuse AI capabilities in their existing products and as new AIfirst product faster. Our teams are located in Germany Singapore and India exemplifying an innovative startuplike work environment.

What youll do
As a Chief Architect you will lead the technical design and architecture of AI Core ensuring that systems are robust scalable and efficient. Provide technical leadership and guidance to local & global development teams ensuring adherence to architectural best practices and product standards. Author clear technical documentation and presentations in collaboration with product engineers and architects to communicate architecture and design options to educate engineering teams and product managers.

You will have a great opportunity to learn and work on emerging technologies solving high impact realworld problems at the intersection of Cloud DevOps and Artificial Intelligence which is a strategic priority for SAP.

Your tasks will include:

• Architect and Design AI Core Features: Lead the endtoend architecture of AI solutions and platforms ensuring scalability security and high performance.
• Drive Innovation: Lead the evaluation design and integration of cuttingedge AI technologies with a focus on generative AI machine learning and cloudnative architectures
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with crossfunctional teams including developers DevOps engineers and AI researchers to create a unified technical vision and drive highimpact projects.
• Optimize System Performance: Ensure that systems are optimized for largescale data processing AI workloads and high availability.
• Mentor and Inspire Teams: Provide technical leadership mentoring junior engineers and driving best practices for software architecture and full stack development.
• Strategize Future Growth: Work with Product Leaders and management to align technical strategies with business goals identifying expansion opportunities
• Oversee Quality and Security: Ensure that systems meet the highest standards for security performance and scalability. Lead code reviews architecture audits and system evaluations.
• Explore understand and implement most recent technologies and approaches for enhancing the value and adoption of AICore.

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science Engineering or related fields. Masters degree preferred.
• 10 years of experience in software development and architecture with a focus on cloudbased AI solutions.
• Strong experience leading teams and architecting complex systems with realworld AI applications.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python Go or JavaScript.
• Strong expertise in hyperscaler platforms such as AWS Azure and GCP.
• Deep understanding of DevOps practices including CI/CD as well as container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Additionally familiarity with Cloud Native technology stack such as Istio Helm Argo and Envoy is essential.
• Foundation in AI and machine learning model integration particularly in generative AI and large language models (LLMs).
• Experience with secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Threat Modeling vulnerability management and knowledge of industry best practices.
• Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace Grafana and Prometheus.
• Proven track record in technical leadership mentoring and collaboration across global distributed teams.
• Ability to tackle complex architectural problems and deliver innovative solutions under tight deadlines.

Nice to have:

• Experience in developing AI tools or frameworks especially in enterprise contexts.
• Exposure to Generative AI and build SAP Embedded AI solutions
• Knowledge of AI ethics and data privacy in AI deployments
• Familiar with AIOps

We are looking for passionate architects eager to leverage their cloud application development and technical leadership experience to make a transformative impact in the strategically vital Business AI universe. Join us in shaping the future of AIdriven enterprise solutions

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 endtoend 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 purposedriven and futurefocused 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 SAPyou can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAPs culture of inclusion focus on health and wellbeing 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.

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Requisition ID: 407865 Work Area: SoftwareDesign and Development Expected Travel: 0 10 Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LIHybrid.