2 months ago
Garching bei München, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own architecture and technical strategy for complex AI-native enterprise applications.
- Govern delivery across multiple high-impact, high-risk programs aligned with SAP’s strategic, customer, and financial objectives.
- Embed in customer projects and cross-functional delivery teams to understand business processes, technical landscapes, and operational challenges.
- Resolve complex technical and delivery escalations and manage enterprise-scale risks and trade-offs.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering approaches and influence SAP’s long-term technology roadmap.
- Represent SAP as a trusted technical authority with senior customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Establish technical vision, standards, and guidance for application engineering initiatives.
- Mentor and enable senior engineers and experts while fostering innovation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in AI-native application or software engineering across enterprise architectures and platforms.
- Proven experience leading complex, high-impact programs and influencing technical direction beyond individual projects.
- Experience shaping and applying agentic AI systems that operate autonomously within defined boundaries and deliver business outcomes.
- Advanced knowledge of large-scale AI-enabled systems, large language models, RAG architectures, vector databases, agentic systems, and ML-driven architectures.
- Proficiency with AI/ML Python libraries and frameworks, data pipelines, MLOps, and agent-driven engineering practices.
- Ability to advise and influence senior and executive stakeholders on strategic technical decisions and trade-offs.
- Recognition as a trusted authority or thought leader in application engineering, internally or externally.
- Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, customer-centricity, and ambiguity-navigation capabilities.
- Proactive use of AI in workflows through thoughtful context design and system integration.
- Application documents must be provided in English.
Benefits
- Flexible working models and a culture focused on inclusion, health, and well-being.
- Opportunities for continuous learning, skill growth, personal development, and collaboration with a global AI and industry expert team.
- Regular full-time employment with expected travel of 0–70% and a hybrid work arrangement.
- The role supports customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About SAP
SAP builds enterprise application software and cloud services for finance, procurement, supply chain, human resources, and analytics, sold through subscriptions, licenses, and support. Its portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, SAP Ariba, and SAP SuccessFactors. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is a public company listed on the NYSE and Frankfurt (ETR) and serves enterprises and public-sector organizations worldwide.