Development Expert

We help the world run better
At SAP we keep it simple: you bring your best to us and well bring out the best in you. Were builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce and we need your unique talents to help shape whats next. The work is challenging but it matters. Youll find a place where you can be yourself prioritize your wellbeing and truly belong. Whats in it for you Constant learning skill growth great benefits and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

Summary:
Youll join the SAP Procurement Engineering organization within our Intelligent Spend Management group contributing to transforming how enterprises manage their procurement processes.

Your Authority: Youll influence technical decisions across the entire procurement portfolio working directly with senior engineering leadership and product executives to shape SAPs 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 SAPs 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 SAPs 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 youre searching for a company thats 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.

The Role:

• AI-Native Productivity Platform: Architect and lead an enterprise-grade AI-powered engineering productivity and DevOps automation platform that combines agentic copilots conversational workflows intelligent orchestration and continuous learning tailored to SAPs procurement domain.
• Test Intelligence and CI/CD Acceleration: Establish intelligent test selection and change-impact analysis at portfolio scale to compress multi-hour pipelines to minutes increase throughput and materially reduce cloud spend without sacrificing quality.
• Kubernetes-Native Orchestration: Design and implement Kubernetes operators/CRDs for ephemeral environment provisioning parallel test execution and elastic scaling that optimize utilization while ensuring isolation and reliability.
• Universal Integration Framework: Build a secure framework for dynamic tool discovery capability negotiation and policy-aware routing (MCP-like) enabling AI agents to safely invoke internal systems APIs and automations.
• Developer Copilots and Interfaces: Deliver IDE/terminal assistants and intelligent web interfaces that understand repo/terminal context retain cross-session memory and support multi-modal interaction driving daily adoption and measurable productivity gains.
• AI Workflow Engine: Introduce natural-language workflow creation with predictive optimization and cross-organizational learning; integrate with enterprise automation (e.g. n8n/Temporal/GitOps) to convert tribal knowledge into repeatable runbooks.
• Observability-Driven Incident Prevention: Implement proactive detection alert correlation automated diagnostics and auto-remediation using metrics/logs/traces to reduce MTTR and prevent incidents before user impact.
• Knowledge Graph and Retrieval: Build a domain-aware knowledge graph unifying code tests services incidents and operational signals; enable RAG-based assistance for PR review security checks onboarding and support triage.
• Responsible Enterprise AI: Define governance safety security and explainability patterns for agentic systems on BTP and hyperscalers; ensure compliance auditability and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Global Platform Standards: Set platform and developer experience standards for AI-assisted development CI/CD and environment management that scale across SAP Procurement Engineering.
• Innovation and Business Impact: Translate platform capabilities into measurable outcomesfaster feedback cycles lower MTTR cost savings higher release confidence and accelerated feature delivery.
• Technical Complexity: Agentic AI at enterprise scale intelligent CI/CD Kubernetes operators knowledge graphs and domain-aware automation
• Ownership: Portfolio-wide engineering productivity and DevEx strategy; end-to-end ownership from architecture to measurable business outcomes
• Mentoring: Uplift organizational capabilities in AI/ML platform thinking SRE/DevOps and modern testing practices across multiple engineering groups
• Cross-team Collaboration: Partner with product SRE Security and platform organizations; influence company-wide technical strategy and work directly with senior leadership
• System Design: Define reference architectures and standards for AI-native productivity platforms Kubernetes-native orchestration and intelligent testing; contribute patterns back to SAPs enterprise architecture
• Experience: 1015 years with 710 years in platform/architecture leadership; deep expertise in AI-enabled platforms cloud-native systems CI/CD and developer experience

Role Requirements:

• Strategic Technology Leadership:
  • Polyglot Engineering: Deep expertise in Java/JVM (Spring) plus proficiency in Go and/or Python and TypeScript/Node for platform tooling and operator development.
  • Technology Strategy: Proven track record evaluating and adopting emerging technologies (LLMs multi-agent RL vector search graph databases) and converting them into scalable secure enterprise platforms
• Enterprise Integration Mastery:
  • Data Architecture: Experience with graph databases and vector stores; strong grounding in data governance lineage and access controls
  • APIs and Protocols: Advanced knowledge of REST GraphQL gRPC OAuth2/OIDC; familiarity with OData and enterprise integration patterns
  • Eventing and Messaging: Kafka or equivalent streams; real-time processing and CQRS patterns; WebSockets for collaborative experiences
• Platform Architecture:
  • Cloud-Native at Scale: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) service mesh multi-tenant SaaS global resiliency and performance
  • Kubernetes Operators: CRD design reconciliation loops intelligent scheduling cluster autoscaling and cost-aware resource management
  • Developer Platforms: Internal developer platform design (e.g. Backstage) API management golden paths and secure toolchains on BTP and major clouds
• AI and Modern Practices:
  • Production LLM/Agent Systems: Retrieval-augmented generation tool-use/Function Calling prompt/retrieval engineering evaluation safety and observability
  • Reinforcement Learning: Practical experience applying multi-agent RL (e.g. actor-critic) to classification/decision problems and continuous improvement loops
  • MLOps/LLMOps: Model hosting/gateways feature stores vector indexes policy enforcement red-teaming and telemetry for AI quality
  • DevOps Excellence: Trunk-based development GitOps progressive delivery automated experimentation and performance/scalability testing
• CI/CD and Test Intelligence:
  • Change-Impact Analysis: Static code analysis dependency graphs and historical signal mining to select the right tests with high precision
  • Pipeline Tooling: Expertise with Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI Tekton/Argo; caching parallelization and flaky-test mitigation strategies
  • Metrics and Outcomes: Demonstrated reductions of multi-hour pipelines to sub-30 minutes with maintained or improved coverage
• Observability SRE and Incident Automation:
  • Full-Stack Telemetry: OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana ELK/Splunk; SLOs error budgets and auto-diagnostics
  • Automated Remediation: Alert deduplication/correlation runbooks-as-code and safe remediation workflows that reduce MTTR
• Security Compliance and Responsible AI:
  • Data Security: Secrets management least-privilege design governance in regulated enterprise contexts
  • Responsible AI: Bias testing explainability audit trails human-in-the-loop and policy-compliant agent behavior
• Industry Influence:
  • Evidence of thought leadership through talks standards participation publications or open-source contributions; ability to influence technology adoption across large organization

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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Requisition ID: 435230 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid