Chief Development Architect (multiple positions available)
About The Position
SAP Labs, LLC is hiring multiple Chief Development Architects at its Palo Alto, California location. The role defines and leads the architecture and vision for the procurement product in collaboration with other lead architects and engineering teams, aligns architecture concepts, and ensures they are documented in Architecture Concept Documents (ACDs). The architect reconciles specifications and strategy with external boundary conditions, guides implementation teams, and governs architecture compliance with ACDs and product standards. The position contributes hands-on to end-to-end product and technology delivery, collaborates with stakeholders and senior executives including the CTO, assesses proposed solutions for feasibility, readiness, and compliance, and oversees cross-architecture initiatives affecting multiple engineering teams worldwide. It also drives technology renovation for operational efficiency, cost optimization, and cloud scale; evolves cloud-native practices and SAP BTP technologies and services within the SAP Ariba Procurement Suite; and leads application architecture for multiple procurement applications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 10 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 these fields plus 8 years of such experience.
- Eight years of experience in technical leadership and supervision of 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 implementation teams and provide technology guidance, managing matters that influence the architectural framework.
- Conduct architecture reviews to ensure implementation teams comply with the ACD and relevant product standards.
- Contribute hands-on to end-to-end product and technology delivery, from ideation through delivery to customers.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders and senior executives, including the CTO, to address architectural and technical complexities.
- Evaluate proposed solutions for feasibility, readiness, and compliance.
- Oversee cross-architecture initiatives that significantly affect multiple engineering teams and guide team architects globally.
- 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 in the Ariba Procurement Suite.
- Lead application architecture for multiple procurement applications.
Benefits
- Great benefits; see SAP North America Benefits for details and eligibility requirements.
- Flexible working models.
- Employee Referral Program eligibility, subject to the applicable policy criteria.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
