Expert Development Architect for SAP CTO

About the position

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. As an Expert Development Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping SAP's future architecture strategy in alignment with our AI first and Suite first product direction. Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture, you will serve as a deep technical expert, driving innovation across SAP's portfolio by designing and enabling next-generation, cloud-native, and AI-integrated architectures. You will work in a global, cross-functional setup and engage with strategic architecture topics that influence platform evolution, product strategy, and customer outcomes. With your technical depth and hands-on attitude, you will help ensure our solutions are scalable, intelligent, secure, and future-ready.

Responsibilities

• Champion architectural excellence across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with SAP's AI-first and Suite-first strategic direction.
• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of major architectural initiatives - from ideation to implementation - focusing on scalability, performance, and security at every stage.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment by facilitating effective communication and alignment between stakeholders and technical teams.
• Proactively identify and evaluate architecture risks, deliver strategic recommendations and influence key management decisions.
• Work closely with executive leadership and product teams to define and drive architectural roadmaps that align with SAP's broader business objectives.
• Future-proof SAP's technology landscape by promoting the adoption of innovative approaches, integrating emerging trends such as AI, machine learning, cloud native solutions.
• Collaborate with global teams to ensure architecture decisions are adaptable, scalable and meet diverse business needs.
• Design and manage cloud- and AI system-architectures for complex customer solutions, ensuring technical strategies align with business requirements and deliver measurable value.
• Continuously enhance development processes, driving efficiency, scalability, and innovation across SAP's offerings.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software architecture with recognized expertise and thought leadership in one or more areas: AI system architecture, cloud-native frameworks, large-scale distributed systems.
• Expertise in multiple modern programming languages and environments such as Java, Javascript, Python, Go, and related modern technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of software architecture and cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a strong focus on scalability and performance optimization.
• Deep proficiency in container technologies, Kubernetes (including Gardener), microservices, and network technology.
• Experience with SAP technologies, BTP, or enterprise integration landscapes or CloudFoundry.
• Proven success designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems using modern cloud platforms and technologies like Kubernetes, containers, microservices, AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Strong expertise in quantum computing, distributed systems, data or AI/ML architecture, including experience with model training, deployment, MLOps, and AI service integration.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders to align technical and business objectives.
• Exceptional analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
• Extensive experience in writing technical documentation and providing technical leadership to teams.
• Fluency in English, with strong communication skills to liaise with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to share and communicate ideas to executive staff, technical resources and other key constituents in clear, concise language.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance
• 401k plan with matching
• Flexible working models
• Learning and development opportunities
• Employee recognition programs