Principal Software Architect; m​/f​/d | SAP Graph

Principal Software Architect (m/f/d) | SAP Knowledge Graph

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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.

• Define, own, and steer end-to-end architecture and implementation working closely with our engineering team.
• Translate use case requirements into architecture definitions.
• Drive execution and delivery of production-ready KG solutions, establishing a stable and reliable system architecture environment.
• Ensure adherence to SAP and BTP development architecture standards and best practices.
• Drive KG system architecture towards the long‑term vision of business knowledge graphs spanning across SAP, collaborating with the Chief Expert of Knowledge Graph and Semantic Technologies.
• Maintain active communication and collaboration with other Development Architects and stakeholders within the organizations’ architecture community on relevant architectural adjustments to the system architecture of KG solutions.
• Identify opportunities for reuse of architecture concepts or software parts and cross‑team synergies. Align architecture with stakeholders regarding architectural or technical dependencies.
• Integrate inputs and ideas from AI Scientists, AI Researchers, Data Engineers and Knowledge Engineers towards a holistic product vision.

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering with at least 5 years of professional experience as an architect.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or other relevant disciplines.
• Expertise in architectural design and operation principles and patterns for large-scale, distributed systems. Experience with event-driven architecture is a plus.
• Strong experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Good understanding of SAP Business AI offerings such as Joule, AI agents, AI Core / Launchpad and Generative AI Hub.
• Proficiency in any of the programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or others.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate all aspects of software architecture to various, also non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience with SAP Products like SAP S/4
  
  HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP Success Factors, or any other is a plus.
• Experience working on Knowledge Graph (KG) projects utilizing Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, and SHACL.
• Experience in delivering projects within KG‑LLM domain will be strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to work in an agile environment with deep experience in design, development, deployment, and testing of multi‑tenant business applications in the Cloud.
• Experience in being part of large‑scale software development projects distributed across geographical locations and proven track record of delivering production grade Cloud / SaaS applications.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

Requisition  | Work Area:
Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% |

Career Status: Professional |

Employment Type:

Regular Full Time | Additional Locations:
Berlin #LI-Hybrid