Development Architect

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**Summary**

We are looking for an engineer (M/F/d) who acts as a Development Architect of the Business Data Cloud & Insights (BDC&I) business unit.
Task is to help shape the future of our fully managed cloud service (SAAS) as a member of the Business Data Cloud Technology Office team.
You will be part of a very experienced central architecture team which owns end-to-end responsibility for SAPs data management strategy which is the backbone of the entire SAP platform and product portfolio.

**What you'll do**

In addition to defining the general and future architecture for the BDC&I cloud platform & service, you will get to work first-hand with leading edge technologies.
You will directly collaborate with internal stakeholders and business partners to understand scenarios and needs, align concepts & ideas within the unit and across SAP.
With this you will contribute to pave the way for the development teams to adopt the concepts by also creating and developing required organizational and process networks within the development in conjunction with product management.
Since you will be acting as a spearhead of our development organization you will embed in and also have the task to drive and align architecture topics across the entire company along the central architecture alignment board of SAP.
You will work in a diverse & distributed team, driving architecture and technology strategy into actual project work and execution, together with the SAP BDC&I and LoB development organizations.
As the success of the new Business Data Cloud Service heavily relays on the delivery of Data Products by the LoBs, you will also contribute to foster LoB adoption.
This opportunity is an ideal role for an enterprise customer thinking, very focused and ambitious individual who can work in a highly flexible environment with some of the most skilled and experienced professionals in the industry.

**What you bring**
- Desire to work on the leading edge of cloud-based platform, analytics, data management and Data Integration technologies including the emerging Lakehouse architectures / data fabric topics
- To support our Lakehouse architecture, you ideally demonstrate your experience in Spark and Object Store technologies
- Ideally deeper knowledge and experience in LoB specific data platform development projects
- Track record of quickly adapting to new environments, balancing tradeoffs, and demonstrating flexible, pragmatic, and long-term thinking
- Leverage AI technologies for data management and analytics as well as contribution to technical building blocks which enable SAPs global Business AI
- Established record of accomplishments as an architect with analytics and data management engineering teams
- Ideally deeper knowledge and a track record in leading data warehousing projects as an architect and leader
- Practical experience with operating Cloud-scale services in production and working on topics around scaling and resilience
- Excellent presentation and public speaking skills
- Excellent communication skills, proven inter-personal and leadership skills to drive product
- & technology-related discussions internally & externally
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at C suite and above
- Self-motivation with a positive can-do attitude, eagerness, and ability to work quickly
- Great work experience in large scale software development & architectural tasks
- Profound knowledge in the cloud environment
- Strong customer and partner orientation
- Degree in Computer science or related fields

**Meet your SAP BDC&I Development team**

**Bring out your best**

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**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 expr