Development Architect

**What we offer**
**PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES**
You will directly report to the Head of PE Cross Architecture. You will be responsible for executive communications, architecture alignment and coordination activities to drive SAP’s technology strategy.
With your deep technical expertise and thought leadership you help shape innovative and distributed business processes in the Intelligent Enterprise, as well as existing and upcoming SAP solutions, such as the Industry Cloud. You understand technology implications and support the evolution of SAP’s NorthStar Architecture for a homogenous usage experience across all products along the main business processes of SAP’s customers. In alignment with other units at SAP, customers, and partners, you drive decisions to implement SAP’s product and architecture strategy.
In addition, you are a hands-on person with an inspiring can-do mentality focusing on outcomes and a strong delivery attitude. You are an empathetic and solution-oriented person, keeping the diverse developer communities of SAP Product Engineering and our customers and partners in focus.
**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**
- BA/MA/Diploma in a technical field of study.
- Experienced architect with cross-domain, cross-functional or cross-industry expertise with demonstrated knowledge and skills that are both broad and deep.
- Good understanding of SAP relevant development processes and lifecycle, and how to establish a fast feedback and delivery cycle between customers and SAP.
- Demonstrated ability to share and communicate ideas to executive staff, technical resources, and other key constituents in clear, concise language.
- Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills.
- Proficiency with software languages at expert levels required (e.g., Java,.NET, node.js, Go, Python, ABAP) and strong skills in modern cloud technologies (Messaging, SQL,NoSQL,...), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCO,...), as well as related Open Source Software (Spark, Flink, Cassandra,...)
- Experience professional work with software Development and Architecture
- Fluent in English language.
**OUR PLEDGE TO FLEX WORK**
At SAP, we value a flexible work which allows every employee to run at their personal best. This is why, today, we **pledge to flex** - providing an approach that can fit every role, style, and location while continuing to meet our business and customer needs. With this pledge, we will provide:
- An inclusive environment in which people have options of work models**:work from home**, at the **office**, or **hybrid**, based on what fits best employee preferences and business requirements - employees discuss with their managers the possibilities and align together the best work setup.
- Flexible work schedules, so employees can adapt their personal needs with rheir professional activities in a productive and satisfatory way.**We are SAP**
**Our inclusion promise**
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, 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.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Requisition ID: | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time |

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