Senior Technical Data Engineer

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.

WHAT YOULL BUILD

We are looking for a Technical Data Engineer with the mindset for highest level of service for our internal customers and support to take SAPs Marketing Technology Stack to the next level as part of our transformation journey to achieve SAPs your role as Technical Data Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Design build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and ELT workflows that power analytics ML and operational use cases.
• Own the data platform end-to-end across ingestion transformation modeling orchestration quality observability and cost/performance optimization in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Design develop and maintain robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT) and enforce governance security and compliance standards.
• Build and optimize data architectures (data lakes and warehouses)
• Ensure data quality reliability and performance
• Collaborate closely with Data Scientists and Analytics teams
• Automate workflows and improve operational efficiency
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues automate testing and deployments (CI/CD Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) and document systems to enable team-wide operational excellence.

WHAT YOU BRING:

You have a track record of shipping production-grade data systems that are reliable observable and cost-efficient. You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and turn ambiguous requirements into well-defined data products. You value ownership code quality and continuous improvement mentoring peers and elevating standards.

• 7 - 12 years building and operating data pipelines at scale with Python and SQL including Spark or similar distributed frameworks.
• Expertise with modern ELT tooling and orchestration (dbt Airflow/Dagster/Prefect) and version-controlled testable transformations.
• Strong data modeling in warehouses and lakehouses (Kimball Data Vault medallion) schema evolution and performance tuning.
• Cloud data platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure): storage (S3/GCS/ADLS) computing (EMR/Dataproc/Databricks/BigQuery/Snowflake) and networking fundamentals.
• Streaming and event-driven architectures (Kafka/Kinesis/Pub/Sub) exactly-once semantics backfills and idempotency.
• Data quality observability and reliability practices (Great Expectations/Soda/Monte Carlo) SLAs alerting and incident response.
• CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI Terraform/CloudFormation) containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
• Security and governance: IAM secrets management encryption PII handling GDPR/CCPA awareness and access patterns (RBAC/ABAC).
• Experience enabling downstream consumers (BI/ML) via data contracts documentation and self-serve datasets/semantic layers (Looker/MetricLayer).

WHERE YOU BELONG

Our Go-To-Market Services for Marketing team as part of the Customer & Partner unit within the global Corporate Processes & Information Technology (CPIT) Organization is responsible for the design implementation and operations of IT solutions supporting SAPs core business processes mainly in Marketing and closely interacting with respective LoBs. Here we act as the Businesses trusted advisor and expert driving together the simplification harmonization and intelligence of business processes. We enable solutions for the Demand-to-Lead process area with the adoption of state-of-the-art solutions embracing innovation as well as new technologies to achieve higher effectiveness.

Besides our day-to-day business we are passionate about technology and always looking for new options to improve the way we work and deliver value to business. You want to make a difference join us today!

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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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Requisition ID: 447258 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid