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Principal/Lead SAP AI Architect (f/m/d)

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16 days ago
Garching bei München, GermanyStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Engage customers and SAP stakeholders to define goals, challenges, and an SAP AI architecture vision.
  • Design and deliver scalable, reliable end-to-end SAP AI solutions.
  • Lead architecture reviews and blueprint sessions and communicate complex topics to business and technical audiences.
  • Define success criteria and ensure solution performance, quality, adoption, responsible AI, and data privacy.
  • Identify and prioritize SAP-native AI use cases across S/4HANA, BDC, Analytics Cloud, and BTP.
  • Advise on SAP AI innovations and future-proof architectures, including legacy migrations.
  • Define and govern SAP AI architecture standards, patterns, frameworks, and best practices.
  • Drive the unit’s SAP AI strategy and roadmap, including capability gaps, hiring, training, and tooling investments.
  • Lead pre-sales and solutioning activities, including proposals and proofs of concept on SAP BTP and AI Core.
  • Mentor and coach architects and contribute to SAP thought leadership and innovation.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, AI, Software Engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of SAP experience, including 5+ years in a senior architect leadership role.
  • Strong expertise in Fiori UI, CAP Framework, SAP BTP, SAP architecture principles, and cloud transformation frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with SAP Build, Process Automation, Build Apps, Integration Suite, API Management, Event Mesh, and Data Intelligence.
  • Experience designing SAP and non-SAP integration architectures and knowledge of SAP data models and enterprise data architecture.
  • Strong knowledge of agentic AI frameworks including LangChain, AutoGen, and CrewAI, plus SAP Data Intelligence and Datasphere.
  • Experience designing generative AI solutions using Generative AI Hub, RAG patterns, prompt engineering, and LLM orchestration.
  • Strong understanding of SAP AI Foundation, AI Core, multi-model serving, HANA Cloud vector engine, and Document Information Extraction.
  • Hands-on expertise with SAP HANA Cloud AI/ML capabilities, predictive analytics, vector search, and SAP Analytics Cloud integration.
  • Understanding of AI/ML lifecycle management and data orchestration using SAP Data Intelligence Cloud.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, executive presence, business acumen, analytical problem-solving, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
  • Solid project and program management experience, including Agile, SAFe, SAP Activate, Jira, Confluence, and SAP ALM.
  • Professional fluency in German and English.
  • SAP thought leadership through community contributions, publications, or conference speaking is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Flexible working models and a collaborative, inclusive culture focused on health, well-being, learning, and personal development.
  • Regular full-time, unlimited employment with expected travel of 0–50%.
  • Hybrid work arrangement.
  • Accessibility accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities.

Tech Stack

SOAP

Categories

Solutions Engineering
SAP

About SAP

10,000+ employees

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.

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