Landscape Automation Expert

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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.

SAP is the global market leader for business software and related services, and SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.

Must be a US Citizen; this position requires access to customer data. All internals must have Manager’s approval to transfer.

We are seeking a highly hands-on Automation Architect to help define and execute our vision for end-to-end automation and increasingly autonomous operations across the SAP Basis R&R. We are looking for a technology professional with a strong software development and engineering background who naturally thinks in terms of workflows, automation, APIs, orchestration, event-driven architectures, and AI-enabled operations.

The successful candidate will identify operational processes that are manual, repetitive, or error-prone and transform them into scalable, reusable, automated, and AI-enabled solutions.

The individual will work closely with SAP operations, development, infrastructure and security to turn ideas into production-ready solutions.

The overall objective is to move SAP operations from Manual to Scripted to Automated to AI-Assisted to Autonomous.

• Help define and execute the technical roadmap for Zero Ops and autonomous operations across SAP NS2.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate, simplify, automate, or make autonomous existing operational processes.
• Develop an automation opportunity pipeline based on operational pain points, business value, complexity, risk, and feasibility.
• Challenge traditional operational approaches and identify opportunities to improve reliability, speed, and efficiency through technology.
• Establish reusable automation patterns rather than developing isolated scripts or point solutions.
• Work with SAP and enterprise operations teams to understand current processes and identify opportunities for transformation.

• Analyze operational processes from trigger to completion, rather than automating individual tasks in isolation.
• Design workflows that can detect an event, collect relevant information, analyze the situation, determine an action, execute the action, and validate the outcome.
• Translate operational requirements into technical workflows, APIs, automation services, and reusable components.
• Identify opportunities to introduce event-driven automation and closed-loop remediation.
• Define appropriate human-in-the-loop, approval, exception-handling, rollback, and validation mechanisms.
• Develop prototypes and proofs of concept to rapidly demonstrate automation opportunities.

The candidate should naturally think Event,Detect, Gather Data, Diagnose, Decide, Approve, Execute, Validate, Document, Learn.

• Design and develop production-quality automation services and applications.
• Build APIs, microservices, workflow components, integrations, and automation frameworks.
• Use strong software engineering practices including Git, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and…