Development Architect-CDX SM Cloud Ops

Job Description

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you’ll build

You will join our architecture team as an experienced Principal Development Architect to help us meet our objectives.

• Manage technical stakeholder relationships to establish alignment and expectations to maximize our success and investments
• Develop technical strategies and architectural approaches to solve our hardest challenges
• Work through ambiguity in a matrixed organization crossing multiple lines of business and engineering teams
• Conduct PoCs and technical pathfinding exercises to validate approaches and hypotheses
• Communicate and document recommendations and designs clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholder audiences

What you will bring:

• 8 or more years of experience as an Architect, Technical Product Manager, or role in a software development leader capacity
• Experience and domain knowledge of delivering cloud infrastructure and services at scale
• Knowledge of non-functional qualities and compliance of SaaS-delivered software
• Strong leadership, communication, negotiation capabilities, as well as strong collaboration with various teams and skillsets
• Hands-on experience of developing software for automation and integration purposes
• Experience with SDOL, SSDLC, and LEAN
• Solid understanding of cloud-native, and AI technologies and DevOps practices
• Knowledge of Agile, FinOps, and value-driven Service Management and Delivery Practices
• Excitement to apply an engineering discipline to our cloud operations and delivery services
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or requisite job experience and certifications
• Familiarity with HPOM a plus

About our Team

CDX SM Cloud Ops' mission is to safely increase developer velocity and reduce cloud costs. Our goal is to minimize friction by balancing long-term feature velocity, security, and reliability. We serve the Spend Management Product Engineering teams and customers to deliver products at cloud-scale. We operate with an SRE culture and apply a software engineering approach to the delivery and operation of our services.

​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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 427340 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.