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.

What you'll build

In this role, you design, build, and operate AI native enterprise applications that combine cloud native software engineering with production grade machine learning and agentic AI capabilities being embedded directly within customer environments and fast-moving delivery teams. You work closely with customers to translate ambiguous business and operational requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions, to solve complex real world business problems at speed owning technical delivery from discovery and prototyping through deployment, stabilization, and successful handover to platform or operations teams. You are accountable for the technical quality, reliability, and impact of application solutions within your scope. Working closely with product, data, ML, and customer teams, you apply modern AI assisted engineering practices and architectural guardrails aligned with SAP standards to enable responsible and scalable AI adoption.

In this role, you will:

• Design, develop, and operate production‑grade, cloud‑native enterprise applications integrating AI capabilities such as large language models, retrieval‑augmented generation, and agent‑based workflows.
• Embed directly into customer projects and fast moving cross functional teams to rapidly understand business processes, technical landscapes, and operational challenges.
• Translate business and product requirements into robust application architectures, balancing speed, quality, security, and long‑term maintainability.
• Rapidly prototype, iterate, and productionize solutions in customer environments, adapting reference architectures and reusable assets to real world enterprise constraints.
• Own application delivery end‑to‑end, from problem framing and prototyping through deployment, observability, and production operations.
• Apply AI‑assisted engineering practices, evaluation frameworks, and architectural guardrails to ensure compliant, trustworthy, and high‑quality solutions.
• Ensure delivery milestones, quality standards, and technical objectives are met, proactively managing risks and technical escalations within scope.
• Act as a key technical interface to customers and internal stakeholders, clearly communicating solution approaches, trade‑offs, and progress.
• Contribute to engineering standards, best practices, and reusable components to improve efficiency and consistency across solutions

What you bring:

• Extensive hands-on experience in software and application engineering for cloud-native, enterprise, and SaaS environments, with strong knowledge of architectural principles such as scalability, security, and reliability.
• Proven ability to design and deliver AI-native applications, utilizing large language models, RAG architectures, vector databases, and agentic systems to innovate enterprise workflows.
• Strong proficiency in widely used AI/ML Python libraries and frameworks
• Exposure to data pipelines and MLOps practices
• Skilled in integrating Agentic AI into complex business processes, ensuring responsible and effective use of AI agents within enterprise operations.
• Solid architectural foundation across cloud platforms, distributed systems, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Experience owning solutions across the full application lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment and production operations.
• Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and customer stakeholders, communicating complex technical topics clearly.
• Learning mindset, technical leadership, and accountability in high impact, ambiguous environments
• You demonstrate a proactive approach to leveraging AI in everyday workflows, ensuring high‑quality outputs through thoughtful context design and system integration

Where you belong:

You will be part of a growing AI and industry expert team dedicated to serving customers across the region (Americas, Europe, Asia). We are building a collaborative, high-impact environment that brings together deep AI expertise, strong industry knowledge, and regional understanding to help customers innovate, transform, and lead in their markets.

This team thrives on working together to turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions. You will find an environment that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, where new ideas are encouraged and real-world impact matters. This is a place for people who enjoy building something new. You will thrive here if you are customer-centric, motivated by meaningful outcomes, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-evolving AI landscape.

We work closely with decision-makers, challenge assumptions with data, and give data scientists room to influence strategy—not just produce analysis. We value sharp thinking, business curiosity, and clear communication.

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.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com.

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Compensation Range Transparency SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 198200-420000USD The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits

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Requisition ID: 453920 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid