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Forward Deployed Application Engineering Chief Expert (f/m/d)

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13 days 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 customer, strategic, and financial objectives.
  • Embed directly in customer projects and cross-functional delivery teams to understand business and technical challenges.
  • Resolve enterprise-scale technical risks, trade-offs, and delivery escalations.
  • Advance AI-assisted engineering approaches and influence SAP’s technology roadmap.
  • Represent SAP with senior customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
  • Establish technical vision, standards, and guidance across 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 language models, RAG architectures, vector databases, agentic systems, and ML-driven architectures.
  • Proficiency with Python AI/ML libraries and frameworks, data pipelines, MLOps, and agent-driven engineering practices.
  • Ability to advise senior and executive stakeholders on strategic technical decisions and trade-offs.
  • Recognition as a trusted technical authority or thought leader in application engineering.
  • Strong leadership, communication, mentoring, customer focus, and ability to work in complex and ambiguous environments.
  • Ability to leverage AI in daily workflows through thoughtful context design and system integration.
  • Application documents must be provided in English.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models, health and well-being support, inclusion initiatives, accessibility accommodations, continuous learning, skill development, and personal development opportunities.
  • Regular full-time employment with expected travel of 0–70%; the posting indicates a hybrid work arrangement.
  • Opportunity to work on a growing AI and industry expert team serving customers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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