Development Architect

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Lead Development Architect - SAP Business Network

The global economy has been rapidly evolving from enterprise-centric to network-centric. Companies today rely heavily on their connections to their extended ecosystem to operate effectively. They need an intelligent and open network that delivers enhanced visibility, greater efficiency, and improved collaboration to achieve supply chain resilience and thrive in the face of disruption.

SAP Business Network has been identified as one of the four strategic growth areas for SAP by the executive board. Our vision is to elevate our intelligent enterprise to the “Network of Intelligent Enterprises.” We are looking for a visionary Head of Architecture to lead and drive the strategy and execution of a cohesive architecture and best-in-class technology strategy across the SAP Business Network product portfolio.

Purpose and Objective

As a Lead Development Architect in the SAP Business Network CTO office, you will be part of a team driving the overall technical architecture strategy, governance, TCO, Cloud Qualities, and stakeholder collaboration model.

The Role

Specific responsibilities include:

1. Driving an aligned and consistent architecture strategy and the execution of that strategy for Next Generation applications with a focus on scale, resilience, stability, and security.
2. Creating architecture concepts and driving their implementation and interlock with engineering teams.
3. Delivering specific Architecture Concept Documents, Architecture Decision Records, and advising other architects and key experts.
4. Developing prototypes as proof-of-concept for technical decisions.
5. Evaluating architecture risks and estimating effort for business cases, preparing senior management decisions, advising senior management and chief product owners regarding technical feasibility and architectural implications.
6. Organizing collaborative architecture work across teams which may include guiding complex cross-functional and end-to-end technology initiatives.
7. Participation in design sprint phases with involved architects of product and implementation teams.
8. Driving continuous improvement and innovations in development processes, methodologies, architectures, technology.
9. Exploring new technology evaluation, evaluating their viability for our use cases, trade-offs, and surfacing options for decision.
10. Participate in defining architecture and coding best practices and participating in software design and code reviews with engineering teams.
11. Guide engineers while giving them space to learn and grow.
12. Support customer and partner workshops and provide solution architectures and input to enterprise architecture.
13. Drive an innovation agenda by staying up to date on technology trends and latest Business Technology Platform roadmap.
14. Strong participation and scaling technical leadership in local architecture communities of practice.

Required education, skills and experience

1. Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, or other relevant disciplines.
2. Proven experience in designing, developing, deploying, and testing multi-tenant business applications in the cloud.
3. Experience in developing and scaling reliable data-driven microservices and APIs.
4. Knowledge of cloud-native principles and demonstrated experience of system design.
5. Familiar with one of the major cloud providers.
6. At least 8+ years of professional experience as developer with 5+ years as an architect.
7. Proven ability to work in an agile and DevOps environment using SCRUM methodology.
8. Strong technical communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-cultural teams.

Preferred skills and experience

1. Experience in data science or data engineering.
2. Knowledge about the SAP Business Technology Platform.
3. Experience scaling databases on cloud infrastructure.
4. Hands-on DevOps experience with Kubernetes.
5. Familiar with big data and machine learning architectures and platforms.

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. 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 feels included and can run at their best. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

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, 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. The targeted combined range for this position is 185100 - 403800(USD) USD.

Requisition ID: 393233 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid