Chief Development Architect

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. 

SAP Business Network

The way businesses operate is transforming rapidly, shifting from isolated, enterprise-focused models to dynamic, network-centric ecosystems. In today’s interconnected world, no business works alone. Companies rely on suppliers, service providers, logistics professionals, and partners to drive efficiency, resilience, and growth. To thrive in this environment, they need a smart, open, and collaborative network that provides unparalleled visibility, efficiency, and adaptability.

At SAP, we are at the forefront of this transformation. With the world’s largest procurement network (Ariba Network) and a global footprint in enterprise supply chain and operations, SAP is uniquely positioned to drive the “network of networks” strategy. By uniting best-in-class solutions like the Ariba Network, Asset Intelligence Network, Supply Chain and Logistics Business Network, we are building a multi-enterprise platform that empowers businesses to connect, innovate, and succeed together.

Our mission is to elevate businesses to become “Networks of Intelligent Enterprises,” powered by leading cloud solutions and the SAP Business Technology Platform together with key AI and technology partners. As part of this mission, we are assembling a diverse and globally distributed team dedicated to driving innovation and excellence.

We are seeking technology leaders and experts to spearhead technology strategy and execution across the SAP Business Network product portfolio. This is an opportunity to influence and shape the future of global commerce leveraging global business networks while working alongside a passionate, forward-thinking team.

If you’re ready to contribute to the next era of intelligent collaboration and help redefine the way the world works together, we invite you to join SAP Business Network. Let’s build the future, together.

What you will do

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Chief Development Architect in the SAP Business Network CTO office, you will be part of a team driving the overall technology strategy, architecture quality, cloud scale readiness and our AI-First and Suite-First initiatives.

Specific responsibilities include:  

• Driving an aligned and consistent architecture strategy and the execution of that strategy for Next Generation applications. Key topics could include architecture for scalability, resilience, stability, and security in the cloud.
• Creating architecture concepts and driving their implementation.
• Developing prototypes as proof-of-concept for technical decisions.
• Evaluating architecture risks and estimating effort for business cases, preparing senior management decisions, advising senior management and Business Owners regarding technical feasibility and architectural implications.
• Organizing collaborative architecture work across teams which may include guiding complex cross-functional and end-to-end technology initiatives.
• Advising design sprint phases with involved team leads of product and implementation teams.
• Driving continuous improvement and innovations in development processes, methodologies, architectures, and technology.
• Exploring new technology evaluation, evaluating their viability for our use cases, trade-offs, and surfacing options for decision.
• Guide engineers while giving them space to learn and grow.
• Support customer and partners and provide solution architectures and input to enterprise architecture.
• Drive an innovation agenda by staying up to date on technology trends like AI.
• Strong participation and scaling technical leadership in local architecture communities of practice. 

What you will bring

The successful candidate for the Chief Development Architect will bring the following experience and attributes:

• Passionate about technology and architecture excellence.
• Defining, aligning, and creating architectures and assist product managers and engineering leaders in implementation roadmaps.
• Distributed system and database design.
• Microservices architecture style experience and competency in best practices. Ex. Domain Driven Design, Communication Patterns, CI/CD.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile and DevOps culture.
• Familiar with one of the major cloud providers
• Executive Presence – Very strong technical communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills at the executive level. Strong oral and written English language skills.
• Team-Oriented - Ability to work independently as well as in a team-oriented, collaborative fashion with stakeholders across all org units. Proven track record of successfully leading diverse teams.
• Vision – Ability to look at the bigger picture and act as an owner and evangelist for strategic topics. Curious mindset and innovative thinking with the ability to continuously lean and easily move into new topics.
• Results-Oriented – Demonstrated ownership, integrity, will to achieve, and other leadership skills required to consistently deliver outcomes aligned with business objectives within aligned milestones.

Preferred skills and experience

 Experience in data science or data engineering

• Knowledge about the SAP Business Technology Platform is preferred, but not required
• Experience scaling databases on cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on DevOps experience with Kubernetes
• Familiar with big data and machine learning architectures and platforms.

Education requirements: Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Language requirements: Fluency in English, other languages are a plus. Ex. German

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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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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.

Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 263800 - 609200(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.

Requisition ID: 403442 | Work Area:Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid

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