Principal Development Architect

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Summary

We're looking for a visionary Principal Development Architect to join SAP's Business Data Cloud Technology Office — a central team driving the future of SAP's data management strategy. This is a high-impact, cross-organizational role where you'll help define the architecture of our next-generation cloud services, influencing product direction across SAP and shaping how data powers intelligent enterprise solutions.
You'll work alongside some of the most experienced architects in the industry, helping to build the backbone of SAP's 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
• Profound experience in data integration technologies (SAP data, non-SAP data, data lakes) and enterprise applications
• 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

The SAP BDC&I Development organization is tasked with bringing the powerful capabilities of SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and different application specific Data Platform approaches together in a harmonized and seamlessly integrated way to harness the potential of the full information value chain - creating an entirely new cloud service and experiences that enable our customers to get the insights that they need to both understand the past and predict the future with full confidence based on data they can trust. 

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

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