Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
What do you think about joining an innovative, engaged, and collaborative development environment, building a cutting-edge platform for big data with a team of experts worldwide? The Big Data Fabric Services (BDFS) enables SAP Lines of Business and customers to easily enter the world of Big Data. We are looking for a Development Manager eager to learn and contribute to the world of Big Data.
A small disclaimer: we don’t work as data scientists analyzing or extracting data, but we build a platform that allows this.

THE PRODUCT
The major goal of BDFS is to enable SAP Lines of Business (LoB’s) and customers to enter the world of big data easily. To achieve that objective, we’re delivering Apache Spark as a service, a multi-language engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning on single-node machines or clusters (Kubernetes in our case). We’re enabling data to be consumed from multiple hyperscaler agnostic data sources using the Delta Sharing communication protocol on top of the HANA Data Lake File Service (HDLFS), an SAP-managed cloud object storage that allows storage and consumption of data without multiple layers of ETL (Extract Transform and Load) systems and intermediary data storages (Lakehouse architecture).

WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a Development Manager, you will be responsible for a Scrum team, according to the HPOM way of working. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for fostering team growth and product excellence. This role requires a balanced focus on managing people and driving engineering processes to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable products.

As a Technical Lead you will be responsible for:

• Assume full ownership of development and engineering progress, ensuring alignment, accountability, and the successful delivery of products.
• Provide expert technical guidance and implement best practices to enhance product development processes.
• Lead with a hands-on approach while leveraging deep technical expertise to inspire, guide, and support the team.
• Guarantee the team will deliver the committed features on time.
• Actively facilitate innovative solutions for complex technical problems, encouraging collaboration and proactive problem-solving.
• Drive the development of secure, robust, scalable, and maintainable software, ensuring adherence to quality assurance processes and product standards.

• Mentor engineering team members, cultivating a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and professional growth.

As a People Manager you will be responsible for:

• Manage and develop individuals and teams, creating an environment that encourages growth both personally and professionally.
• Build and nurture a high-performing team, emphasizing engineering excellence and fostering positive social interactions.
• Lead initiatives for hiring top talent from both within and outside the organization and ensure their seamless integration into the team.
• Set clear, achievable goals with team members, provide inspiration and support to achieve those goals, and evaluate performance transparently and fairly.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement, offering regular coaching and feedback to aid personal and professional development.
• Support team members in setting ambitious development goals and work cross-functionally to address broader organizational topics.
• Drive and actively engage in the Continuous Improvement Process (CIP), ensuring ongoing development and refinement of processes.
• As a management stakeholder, contribute to creating sustainable, high-quality components that seamlessly integrate into our products.

WHAT YOU BRING

Required skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an IT related field.
• Proven experience as a Development Manager or in a similar leadership role within a technical environment.
• Strong technical background with experience in software development and engineering, specially cloud development.
• Excellent leadership and people management skills, with a track record of building and growing high-performing teams.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for fostering a collaborative, innovative work environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and foster relationships across all levels of the organization.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
By joining our team, you will be exposed to the latest technologies and work with world-class developers who will take your professional skills to the next level.

• You will learn about state-of-the-art cloud deployment technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• You will learn how continuous integration works in a global development environment.
• You will have the opportunity to develop distributed applications that run in cluster mode.
  

MEET YOUR TEAM
You will work with your team on the SAP HANA Cloud Big Data Fabric Services. The products that we develop helps our customers access data from anywhere. The Big Data Fabric Services team is responsible for:

• Extend and complete the SAP Data Platform with big data technologies and third-party partnerships to support different SAP Lines of Business and SAP customers to enter the world of Big Data.
• Leverage Apache Spark and Object store technology to provide scalable and cost-effective computing and storage services for big data ingestion, processing, and sharing.
• Integrate into SAP BTP and HANA Cloud & Data Lakehouse to offer unified development and deployment experience for different SAP Lines of Business.
• Assure multi-tenancy and secure data processing.

In the BDFS team, we have an agile and collaborative culture where knowledge sharing is fostered.

Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. 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 – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better world.

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Requisition ID: 454124 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid