Chief Development Architect (multiple positions available)
About The Position
SAP Labs, LLC is hiring multiple Chief Development Architects at its Palo Alto, California location under a hybrid work model. The role defines and leads the procurement product’s architecture and vision with lead architects and engineering teams, aligns architecture concepts, and ensures their documentation in Architecture Concept Documents (ACDs). The architect reconciles architecture with specifications, strategy, and external boundary conditions; guides implementation teams; and conducts architecture reviews to ensure compliance with ACDs and product standards. The role contributes hands-on to product and technology delivery from ideation through customer delivery, collaborates with stakeholders and senior executives including the CTO, evaluates proposed solutions, and oversees cross-architecture initiatives affecting multiple engineering teams. It also drives operational efficiency, cost optimization, and cloud scale; introduces and evolves cloud-native practices and SAP BTP technologies and services in the Ariba Procurement Suite; and leads application architecture for multiple procurement applications. The position requires a bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field and ten years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the offered job or a related occupation; alternatively, a master’s degree or foreign equivalent in one of those fields and eight years of experience. Required experience includes eight years each in technical leadership and supervision of large-scale distributed software projects and teams, and architecture design, documentation, and governance. It also requires five years each in cloud architecture and cloud-native development, SAP BTP and related services, Agile and CI/CD practices, and generative and agentic AI integration. Travel is not required. The annual base salary range is $221,021–$349,725; the targeted combined compensation range, including variable incentive target, is $274,300–$466,300. Actual compensation depends on factors including education, skills, experience, role scope, and location.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, and ten years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation; alternatively, a master’s degree or foreign equivalent in one of those fields and eight years of experience.
- Eight years of experience in technical leadership and supervision in large-scale, distributed software projects and teams.
- Eight years of experience in architecture design, documentation, and governance.
- Five years of experience in cloud architecture and cloud-native development.
- Five years of experience with SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) and related services.
- Five years of experience with Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.
- Five years of experience integrating generative artificial intelligence and agentic artificial intelligence.
Responsibilities
- Define, document, and align architecture to reconcile specifications and strategy with external boundary conditions.
- Analyze specifications and their relationships in light of strategic direction.
- Supervise and provide technology guidance to implementation teams, managing factors that influence the architectural framework.
- Conduct architecture reviews of implementation teams to ensure compliance with ACDs and applicable product standards.
- Contribute hands-on to end-to-end delivery of products and technology components, from ideation through customer delivery.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and senior executives, including the CTO, to address architectural and technical complexities.
- Evaluate the feasibility, readiness, and compliance of proposed solutions.
- Oversee cross-architecture initiatives that significantly affect multiple engineering teams and guide team architects across the globe.
- Drive technology renovation toward operational efficiency, cost optimization, and cloud scale.
- Drive the introduction and evolution of cloud-native best practices and SAP BTP technologies and services into the Ariba Procurement Suite.
- Lead application architecture for multiple procurement applications.
Benefits
- SAP benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the posting.
- Flexible working models
- Health and well-being focus
- Constant learning and skill growth
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
