Development Architect (m/f/d) SAP Cloud Operations Engineering & Automation Team

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Summary & Role Information:

As a Development Architect within the SAP Operations Engineering & Automation Team you are responsible for the aligned and consistent architecture of a product, part of a product or a specific architecture subject. With this you contribute to the aligned and consistent architecture strategy and target architecture of SAP’s Cloud Lifecycle Management tools.

What you`ll do:

• You evaluate architecture risks and estimates efforts for business cases or backlog items and you prepare management decisions on these topics.
• You translate business and product requirements into technical requirements, models and software architecture.
• You  collect and document requirements and constraints with high impact on the architecture as basis for architectural decisions.
• You are responsible for defining the product’s architecture together with implementation team(s), drive alignment of architecture concepts and ensure documentation in architecture concept document(s).
• You identify opportunities for reuse of architecture concepts or software parts and cross-team synergies.
• You aligns architecture with stakeholders regarding architectural or technical dependencies.
• You support and advice our product owner by ensuring technical and architectural feasibility, readiness, and compliance.
• You are responsible for setting up collaboration with the developers/architects of the product team/implementation team(s) and contributes to all tasks of implementation team/product team.

What you’ll bring:

• You  have proven technical skills to master the “full stack” of cloud applications: cloud platforms, databases, operating systems and cloud infrastructure
• You have the eagerness to be up to date with latest Software Engineering Methods and Cloud Technologies
• You are an Innovative Thinker: Continuously improve operating efficiencies and drive automation and optimization 
• You have passion for innovation. Strong interest in business process background.
• You have good German and English communication and technical skills
• You have very strong analytical and logical skills
• You are a fast learner with a goal-oriented working style
• You are a good team player, as we are working in a friendly and agile team.
• You have a “Can do” attitude with clear customer focus.
• You are an excellent team player

Preferably you will also have:

• Good SAP Basis Netweaver skills
• knowledge of leading cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform is much appreciated
• Experience in fundamental web technologies such as http, SOAP, XML, REST, HMTL5, CSS, JQuery

Meet your team :

Cloud Lifecycle Management Application Management team is providing central tools and architectures for provisioning and operating various SAP Cloud solutions. One of our main tool is the Service Provider Cockpit (SPC), which is the de-facto standard suite for service operations in SAP’s major cloud units like S/4HANA, C/4HANA, HANA Enterprise Cloud, HCM and others. In addition to managing SAP’s inhouse IaaS platforms, SPC is also used to orchestrate workloads on all major hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, GCP, Ali Cloud). The team drives the design, implementation and “productization” of the key lifecycle management services required to drive operations excellence for SAP’s cloud delivery.

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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.  

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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.
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Requisition ID: 406261  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
 

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