Development Principal Consultant

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 do

As a Development Consulting Expert, you will design and implement integration and development solutions that bridge gaps between SAP and non-SAP components. You will play a key role in ensuring seamless business processes, enhancing system functionality, and maximizing the capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform.

In this role, you will advise customers and project teams on preferred technology trends within BPP development, support the design of complex development projects, and ensure that BPP standards are applied consistently. You will create concepts for interfaces, extensions, enhancements, composites, and applications, while ensuring end-to-end integration across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid landscapes.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Defining and designing concepts for interfaces, extensions, enhancements, and overall development projects.
• Leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Integration Suite to create integrated solutions.
• Designing and implementing composites, applications, and integration scenarios with non-SAP components.
• Analyzing the feasibility of new or changed services and interfaces based on customer business processes.
• Creating technical and development specifications aligned with customer requirements.
• Implementing and coding services, interfaces, and integration components.
• Coaching customers and partners during implementation activities.
• Planning and coordinating integration tests and reviewing integration and development concepts.
• Ensuring appliance of BPP standards and securing quality outcomes.
• Managing complex or high-risk projects, defining deliverables, tracking milestones, and providing regular project updates.
• Managing escalations appropriately and ensuring business-critical and innovative results are delivered.
• Building strategic partnerships with key decision-makers in customer and partner organizations.

What you bring

You bring deep professional experience in development consulting, integration architecture, and complex technical project delivery. You have strong expertise in SAP and non-SAP integration scenarios, with the ability to translate customer business needs into scalable and innovative technical solutions.

You are confident in managing projects of high volume, risk, or complexity and can provide definitive advice and interpretation in challenging situations. You are able to balance client needs, strategic business goals, and financial objectives while ensuring that deliverables, budgets, and milestones are managed appropriately.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Sound professional experience in development consulting, integration, or technical project delivery.
• Deep knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Integration Suite.
• Strong understanding of interface design, extensions, enhancements, composites, and application development.
• Experience with on-premise, cloud, and hybrid integration landscapes.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, milestone tracking, budget awareness, and escalation management.
• Experience working on complex technical projects or business-critical integration topics.
• Ability to provide innovative solutions to complex business and technical issues.
• Strong functional and technical knowledge across several areas.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to represent SAP externally on specific subject matters.
• Ability to formulate clear project plans, timelines, milestones, and functional requirements.
• Experience building cooperation within project teams and aligning different stakeholder perspectives.
• PMI, Six Sigma, or equivalent certification is a plus, depending on the line of business.

Where you belong

You will be part of a highly skilled Development Consulting team focused on delivering innovative, business-critical integration and development solutions for SAP customers. The team works closely with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to design and implement high-quality solutions that enable seamless business processes across SAP and non-SAP environments.

As an Expert-level contributor, you will act as a trusted advisor to customers and project teams, helping shape technical direction, ensure delivery excellence, and drive successful project outcomes. You may also take on team lead or supervisory responsibilities, supporting colleagues through knowledge sharing, coaching, and constructive feedback.

You will belong to an environment that values innovation, technical excellence, customer success, and collaboration across functions, projects, and global teams.

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.

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Requisition ID: 455111 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid