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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.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in data science or data engineering
• Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform and Services, SAP Business AI
• Experience scaling databases on cloud infrastructure
• Hands-on DevOps experience with Kubernetes
• Familiar with big data and machine learning architectures and platforms.
  Education requirements: Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, or other relevant disciplines
  Language requirements: Native English, other languages are a plus.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Chief Development Architect (m/f/d) for Sales Performance Management (SPM), you will drive the overall architecture strategy, governance, TCO, Cloud Qualities, and stakeholder collaboration model; which includes BTP and other LoBs.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Driving an aligned and consistent state-of-the-art architecture strategy and the execution of that strategy for Next Generation SPM Cloud Business Applications. Key topics could include scale, resilience, stability, and security.
• Creating architecture concepts and driving their implementation. Delivering specific Architecture Concept Documents and Architecture Decision Records and advising other architects and key experts.
• 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 chief product managers 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.
• Participation in design sprint phases with involved architects of product and implementation teams.
• Driving continuous improvement and innovations in development processes, methodologies, architectures, technology.
• Exploring new technologies, evaluating their viability for our use cases, trade-offs, and surfacing options for decision.
• Guide, coach and mentor engineers while giving them space to learn and grow.
• Support customer and partner workshops and provide solution architectures and input to enterprise architecture.
• Drive an innovation agenda by staying up to date on technology trends and latest Business Technology Platform roadmap with an eye on continuous improvement and strategic technology focus.
• Strong participation and scaling technical leadership in local architecture communities of practice.