Principal Software Architect (mfd) | SAP Knowledge Graph

What youll do:

At SAP were integrating state-of-the-art AI technology with our industry-specific data and deep process knowledge to innovate across SAP products & services. Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Machine Learning but pose challenges in business applications due to their limited understanding of structured and unstructured business data such as business data models business process metadata and documentation which slows the development progress. It is SAPs mission to overcome this challenge within the realm of Business AI. Our goal is to provide Knowledge Graphs (KGs) as key differentiators to address LLM challenges like hallucination and compliance as well as enable the development of the foundation models on structured data to deliver distinctive generative AI solutions to our customers.

As aPrincipalSoftwareArchitect(f/m/d) you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the system architecture strategy forSAP Knowledge Graph. Your primary responsibility will be toprovidesystem architecture guidance concepts and support to ensure the successful execution ofSAPKnowledge Graph initiatives.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Define ownand steer end-to-end architecture and implementation working closely with our engineering team

• Translate use case requirements into architecture definitions

• Drive execution and delivery of production-ready KG solutionsestablishinga stable and reliable system architecture environment

• Ensure adherence to SAP and BTP development architecture standards and best practices

• Drive KG system architecture towards the long-term vision of business knowledge graphs spanning across SAP collaborating with the Chief Expert of Knowledge Graph and Semantic Technologies

• Maintain active communication and collaboration with other Development Architects and stakeholders within the organizations architecture community on relevant architectural adjustments to the system architecture of KG solutions

• Identifyopportunities for reuse of architecture concepts or software parts and cross-team synergies. Align architecture with stakeholdersregardingarchitectural or technical dependencies

• Integrate inputs and ideas from AI Scientists AI Researchers DataEngineersand Knowledge Engineers towards a holistic product vision

What you bring:

• 10years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5 years of professional experience as an architect

• Bachelors orMasters degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence or other relevant disciplines

• Expertisein architectural design and operation principles and patternsfor large-scale distributed systems. Experience with event-drivenarchitectureis a plus.

• Strong experience withcontainer technologies (Docker Kubernetes etc.)

• Good understanding of SAP Business AI offerings such as JouleAI agentsAI Core /Launchpadand GenerativeAIHub

• Proficiencyin any of the programming languages such as Python JavaScala orothers

• Strong communicationskillsand the ability to communicateall aspects of softwarearchitectureto various also non-technical stakeholders

• Experience with SAP Products like SAP S/4HANA SAPAribaSAP Success Factorsor any other is a plus

• Experience working on Knowledge Graph (KG) projectsutilizingSemantic Web technologies such as RDF SPARQL and SHACL

• Experience in delivering projects within KG-LLM domain will bestronglypreferred

• Proven ability to work in an agile environment with deep experience in design development deployment and testing of multi-tenant business applications in the Cloud

• Experience in being part of large-scale software development projects distributed across geographical locations and proventrack recordofdelivering production grade Cloud / SaaS applications

Meet your team:

As part of the SAP Business AI organization the Business Knowledge Graphs team empowers AI-driven applicationslike Joule AI agents and SAPs foundation modelsby grounding them in the explicit semantics of SAP domain knowledge. We are a multidisciplinary group focused on research innovation and development collaborating closely with lines of business and internal stakeholders to bring knowledge graph capabilities to our customers.

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