(Senior) Development Manager AI Products & Solutions UAE-Region

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

What you'll build

In this role, you'll lead an engineering team building AI-enabled products and platforms while driving strong execution, delivery predictability, and team growth. You'll own planning and delivery across the full development lifecycle: roadmap translation, scope management, staffing, prioritization, sprint execution, release planning, risk management, dependency handling, and stakeholder communication. On the technology side, you'll guide teams building scalable services, data pipelines, ML-enabled applications, and LLM-based features, ensuring sound engineering around architecture, quality, observability, security, and operational readiness. You’ll help the team make good decisions about model integration, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and governance, while balancing innovation with business value, cost, and time to market. Your impact will be measured not just by delivery, but by the strength of the team, the quality of execution, and the adoption of AI capabilities that solve real customer problems.

What you bring

• You bring a strong software engineering foundation with the ability to lead teams building scalable products, services, platforms, and AI-enabled applications
• You have a working understanding of machine learning and generative AI concepts, including model lifecycle, LLM use cases, evaluation, deployment constraints, and production risks
• You are experienced in leading delivery of AI or data-intensive programs, aligning product scope, technical dependencies, staffing plans, and execution milestones
• You bring strong project and program management skills, including roadmap planning, estimation, sprint execution, release coordination, risk management, and dependency tracking
• You have experience managing engineers across diverse skill sets, including backend, frontend, data engineering, machine learning, and platform engineering
• You are skilled at establishing delivery metrics, engineering KPIs, and operational cadences that improve execution predictability and quality
• You have a strong understanding of Agile methodologies, backlog management, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and escalation handling
• You bring practical knowledge of cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security, and the operational needs of production AI systems
• You are able to evaluate technical trade-offs, including build vs. buy, delivery speed vs. technical debt, and experimentation vs. reliability
• You demonstrate strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and building high-performing teams
• You are confident working with senior stakeholders to translate business goals into execution plans, budgets, staffing decisions, and measurable outcomes
• You apply sound judgment around responsible AI, data governance, compliance, and quality standards in enterprise environments

• You bring 8-10(+) years of experience in software engineering, architecture, or a related field, with a strong track record of designing and delivering complex systems
• You are a strong people leader who is passionate about developing talent and building inclusive, high-performing teams
• You are proactive, organized, and outcomes-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
• You are a collaborative leader who builds strong partnerships across product, architecture, and business teams
• You have a commitment to responsible AI principles, including ethics, transparency, and governance
• Fluent professional English (written and spoken) is required; Arabic is a plus

Where you belong

You will be part of a growing AI and industry expert team dedicated to serving customers across the United Arab Emirates. We are building a collaborative, high‑impact environment that brings together deep AI expertise, strong industry knowledge, and regional understanding to help customers innovate, transform, and lead in their markets.

This team thrives on working together to turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions. You will find an environment that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, where new ideas are encouraged and real‑world impact matters. This is a place for people who enjoy building something new. You will thrive here if you are customer‑centric, motivated by meaningful outcomes, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast‑evolving AI landscape.

We work across boundaries, help teams make better design choices, and build foundations that let AI products scale safely and efficiently. We value clarity, system thinking, and practical innovation.

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
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

We are ethical and compliant
Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 450222 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid