Development Manager (f/m/d) SAP BTP Foundation Unified Services & Commercialization

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 do

We are looking for a people-person to join our team, as one of our strong, committed, self-motivated, reliable, and analytically skilled team players, together owning and shaping the future of the SAP Business Technology Platform commercial services. You will be part of a highly motivated team located both in Israel and Berlin.

As a Development Manager (f/m/d), you will lead efforts to build a scalable system designed to process large volumes of complex commercial business scenarios. Your responsibilities will include designing and developing enterprise-grade products and services that leverage various tools and technologies. You will create compelling product visions jointly with the product team and lead teams to execute this vision. As a leader, you will represent the work of your teams to internal and external stakeholders. You will work together with the development leads, product owners, product managers, and development operations colleagues in your team and other teams to create value for our customers from the first idea to a successful market entry, adoption, and beyond.

Your tasks include:

• Product Delivery: Define product plans and execute against a committed delivery timeline; Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team (including developer on duty 24/7 support shifts and manager on duty shifts).
• Co-Product Ownership: Together with the team Product Owner and Product Manager, ownership of the complete software development lifecycle, designing, leading implementation, and testing of new features, ensure adoption by stakeholders within a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Product Support: Manage customer expectations via product support ensuring high standards in incident processing, quality of interactions, and fixes that are delivered.
• Development Expertise: Provide functional, architectural guidance to the team.
• Technical Hands-On: Maintain a hands-on approach to deliver highly available and scalable services with a strong focus on aspects such as resiliency, observability, scalability, monitoring, and FinOps.
• People Management: Management of people including active engagement, staffing, talent management, career aspirations, mentoring, and enhancing skills of team members to maintain a best-in-class Artificial Intelligence development team.
• Location Leadership: Actively contribute and drive various leadership initiatives for the location, e.g., cross-unit collaboration, training plan execution, general administration, hiring & internship management, etc.

What you bring

• University Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of experience in software product development with a focus on developing cloud services and solutions.
• Have a proven track record of building a culture of design excellence that develops high-impact products with the ability to communicate vision and strategy effectively to the team, partners, and clients.
• Strong advocate for Agile development processes with experience implementing well-run, agile processes in multiple functions including Development, QA, Release & Deployment.
• Foster a robust, unified team atmosphere by empowering the development team to engage in efficient, smooth cross-collaboration dynamics for optimized productivity. Demonstrate strong organizational skills and comfort in leading change.
• Effectively lead teams, manage customer incidents promptly and ensure concerns are addressed within the SLA period.
• Mentor and support developers in solving technically challenging issues, enabling them to benefit from your extensive experience and expertise.
• Required technology exposure & experience:
  • SaaS delivery based on microservice architecture.
  • Container technologies like docker, Kubernetes etc.
  • Cloud integration and deployment on AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go and Java.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding and expertise in DevOps methodologies and principles.
• Fluent English language skills, spoken and written.

Meet your team

The BTP Commercial and Unified Services are one of the critical foundational layers of the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), serving as the backbone that enables effective management and orchestration of core platform components and integration with various SAP IT systems. These foundational services provide a framework that supports the definition and management of platform content artifacts, including services, applications, and commercial entities such as accounts and data centers. Furthermore, these backbone services facilitate resources and tools for BTP service owners and cloud operators, streamlining internal platform management. They also empower external stakeholders such as customer admins, developers, and controllers to effectively utilize and interact with the platform.

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​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.
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Requisition ID: 407473  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Management  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid