Development Manager

**We help the world run better**
At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.
**SUMMARY**
You combine your technical expertise with leadership and excellent communication skills. You demonstrate deep knowledge of business processes, and you take a broader business perspective including aspects of people management, financials, planning, as well as enablement of supporting teams. You lead a team of engineers, product managers and architects to reach the outcome.
In addition, you are still equipped with a hands-on and can-do mentality focusing on outcomes and a strong delivery attitude, in order to be empathetic and solution-oriented toward the diverse developer community of SAP Product Engineering and our customers and partners.
In your role as Developer Manager, you will report to the Vice President of Software Development, and you will be directly responsible for the internal groups’ engineering productivity. You will measure, discover, develop, prototype, launch and drive initiatives to improve the engineering efficiency, for development, designing, visual modeling, threat modeling, presentations, testing, at a technical level.
**ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Understand the team execution, challenges and time spent opportunities
- Combine artistic ingenuity with engineering proficiency and drive exciting new ways of modernizing development activities.
- Is self-motivating and can lead and execute with accuracy, following diligent reporting.
- Drive the engineering adherence to KPIs and goals for efficiency through the organization.
- Empower the development team to ensure its goals and objectives are achieved.
- Participate and drive recruiting efforts for the growth of the team.
- Desire to drive the next wave of innovation, staying on top of technology trends and developments.
- Drive decisions in alignment with other teams from the P&E Board Area and collaborate in a local leadership community.
- Drive mechanisms to ensure quality of delivery while accelerating traditional methods of collaboration and agile development.
- Consistently raise standards with respect to engineering excellence, and software delivery, insisting on the best and drive a continuous improvement culture.
- Lead the execution of team scope and ensure success in all dimensions.
**ROLE REQUIREMENTS**
- MA/MS/Diploma/PhD in a business or a technical field of study from an accredited college or university.
- Outstanding relevant professional experience, a portion of which was within a global enterprise software company.
- Demonstratable experience of driving, leading (technically or managerial) engineering transformation projects.
- History of leading projects and performing in a variety of different roles in the software development life cycle from initiation to adoption by a large number of customers
- Demonstrated ability to share and communicate ideas to executive staff, business sponsors, technical resources and other key constituents in clear, concise language
- Excellent English language skills, both oral and in writing, German language skills are a plus
- Proficiency with several software languages at expert levels required (e.g. Java, node.js, Go, Python, ABAP,..) and strong skills in modern cloud technologies (Messaging, SQL, NoSQL,..), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP,..), as well as related Open Source Software (Kubernetes, Spark, Flink, Cassandra,..)
- Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to react quickly to changing requirements due to product limitations or driven by enterprise needs
- Understanding of SAP BTP offerings (such as CAP, Build), BTP Kyma is a strong plus.
**Bring out your best**
**We win with inclusion**
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

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