SAP Procurement AI Architect - Multiple Locations

Job Description

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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

• Own the end-to-end architecture for AI features in SAP Procurement, from discovery and design to pilot and scale
• Translate business goals into AI solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP):
• Use SAP Generative AI Hub and SAP AI Core for model orchestration and lifecycle
• Apply SAP AI Business Services where fit-for-purpose (e.g., Document Information Extraction)
• Employ SAP HANA Cloud (including vector capabilities) and SAP Datasphere for retrieval and analytics
• Integrate via SAP Integration Suite (Cloud Integration, API Management) and Event Mesh
• Build extensions with CAP/RAP, and design user experiences with SAP Fiori/UI5 or SAP Build; align with Joule for copilot experiences
• Integrate seamlessly with SAP Procurement products:
• S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement: CDS/OData, BAdIs, events, RAP extensions, Central Procurement
• Ariba: Open APIs, Guided Buying extensibility, Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG), Ariba Network
• Fieldglass: REST APIs and connectors for contingent workforce and services procurement scenarios
• Lead customer workshops and solution reviews; shape roadmaps, statements of work, and delivery plans
• Establish AI engineering excellence: RAG patterns grounded in procurement data, prompt design and evaluation, CI/CD for models and prompts, A/B testing, observability, drift detection
• Build-in trust by design, aligned with SAP’s Business AI principles (relevant, reliable, responsible): guardrails, human-in-the-loop, auditability, data privacy, and security

Regional compliance and data residency (role expectations)

Cross-team responsibilities

• Partner with Legal, Security, and Privacy to design region-compliant data flows, complete DPIAs, and maintain records of processing
• Select SAP BTP subaccount regions and hyperscaler endpoints to meet customer data residency needs; ensure logs, vector stores, caches, and backups follow the same residency
• Enforce cross-border transfer controls (e.g., SCCs/IDTA, transfer risk assessments), data minimization, pseudonymization, and encryption
• Ensure Business AI guardrails: no training of foundation models on customer data, strict tenant isolation, reproducible decisions, and audit trails
• Configure retention and right-to-erasure workflows for PII and commercial data (supplier contacts, invoices, contracts, RFx)

EU/EEA

• GDPR compliance by design (lawful basis, purpose limitation, DPIA when required); support EU-only processing and storage when mandated
• Apply EU Standard Contractual Clauses for any transfers; prepare for EU AI Act documentation and risk management for relevant use cases

UK

• UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018; use the UK IDTA or UK addendum to SCCs where applicable; accommodate UK-only hosting when required

United States

• Comply with CCPA/CPRA and emerging state privacy laws; support US data residency for commercial and public-sector customers
• For public sector engagements, design to align with FedRAMP/StateRAMP patterns when required (e.g., segregated environments, restricted integrations)

Canada

• PIPEDA and provincial requirements (e.g., Quebec Law 25); accommodate in-country processing preferences and enhanced consent/DSAR workflows

APJ

• Australia Privacy Act; support IRAP-aligned patterns for public sector when needed
• Singapore PDPA; Japan APPI; India DPDP Act—enable in-country hosting options and explicit consent/notice and cross-border safeguards

Middle East

• UAE PDPL, KSA PDPL, and other GCC privacy laws; design for in-country processing where mandated and align with sovereign cloud requirements when applicable

Latin America

• Brazil LGPD and local data transfer rules; incorporate e-invoicing retention/archival requirements where applicable to AP automation

China (if in scope)

• PIPL/CSL/DSL considerations: minimize cross-border transfers, perform transfer assessments, and use in-country cloud services and model endpoints where required

Finance/AP specifics (where relevant to procurement)

• Align invoice data handling and archival with local e-invoicing mandates (e.g., Italy, France, Poland, Mexico, India) and internal/external audit requirements
• Maintain SoD controls and evidence for approvals, exception handling, and automated decisions

How you’ll measure success

• Business outcomes: cycle-time reductions (PR-to-PO ≥30%, invoice exceptions ≥25%), touchless rate ≥60% in pilot categories, compliance uplift ≥10%
• Product outcomes: DAU/MAU ≥35% for copilots, NPS +20 within 2 quarters post go-live, p95 latency ≤1.5s for user-facing actions
• Model outcomes: extraction F1 ≥0.85 on targeted entities, prompt/test suite pass rate ≥95%, safety incident rate = 0 critical incidents
• Delivery outcomes: pilot-to-production in ≤16 weeks with defined ROI; reliability ≥99.9% and error budgets respected

What you’ll bring

• 10+ years in SAP architecture with deep experience in Procurement (S/4HANA, Ariba, Fieldglass); 4+ years delivering AI/ML (including generative AI) to production
• Hands-on SAP BTP expertise:
• SAP Generative AI Hub, SAP AI Core, SAP AI Business Services
• SAP Integration Suite, Event Mesh
• SAP Extension Suite with CAP (Node/Java) and RAP; SAP Fiori/UI5; SAP Build Process Automation
• SAP HANA Cloud (SQL, calculation views, vector capabilities) and SAP Datasphere
• Applied AI skills:
• RAG design on enterprise data, embeddings, prompt engineering and evaluation, LLM safety/guardrails
• Python and one or more ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch); experience with orchestration libraries and vector stores
• SAP Procurement integration know‑how:
• S/4HANA APIs, CDS views, BAdIs; Ariba Open APIs and CIG; Fieldglass APIs and data models
• Proven delivery of extensions in secure, multi-tenant, and regulated environments
• Security, governance, and operations:
• Enterprise IAM (IAS/IPS), OAuth2/SAML, key management; encryption in transit/at rest
• Strong command of regional privacy frameworks and data transfer mechanisms (GDPR/SCCs, UK IDTA, CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA/Law 25, LGPD, PDPA, APPI, DPDP Act, PDPLs)
• Experience keeping AI/analytics workloads and logs in-region, managing data retention/erasure, and documenting model risk and AI system governance
• Consulting and leadership:
• Confident leading executive conversations, design sessions, and customer enablement
• Track record mentoring engineers and guiding cross-functional teams from use case to value

Nice to have

• SAP certifications in BTP, S/4HANA Sourcing & Procurement, Ariba, or Fieldglass
• Experience with SAP Central Procurement, SAP Supplier Risk, Guided Buying, and Ariba Network integrations
• Familiarity with hyperscaler AI services via BTP (e.g., Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, AWS) and deploying region-bound endpoints; alignment with SAP’s Joule roadmap

Location and travel

• Flexible location; travel up to 25–40% for customer workshops, pilots, and go-lives

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Requisition ID: 446704 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 40% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid