Development Architect

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.

SAP is seeking a Development Architect passionate about building intelligent, AI‑driven solutions, with a strong focus on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs). This role combines hands‑on software development with architectural leadership to design and deliver scalable, secure, and modern enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in Java‑based technologies, modern web and cloud infrastructure, and secure system design, along with the ability to modernize complex legacy platforms using AI‑enabled architectures and best practices.

As a Development Architect, you will collaborate with architects and technical leaders to define technology strategy, drive AI/LLM adoption, and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards. You will own end‑to‑end solution delivery— from architecture and implementation through testing and high‑quality release—while enabling innovation through intelligent automation and generative AI capabilities.

• Is responsible for the aligned and consistent architecture of a product, part of a product or a specific architecture subject.
• Contributes to the aligned and consistent architecture strategy and/or target architecture of product line, product family, or a specific cross‑product architecture subject (e.g. user interface strategy, platform strategy).
• Evaluates architecture risks and estimates effort for business case or backlog item, prepares management decisions on these topics.
• Translates business and product requirements into technical requirements, models and software architecture.
• Collects and documents requirements and constraints with high impact on the architecture as basis for architectural decisions.
• Is responsible for defining the product’s architecture together with implementation team(s), drives alignment of architecture concepts and ensures documentation in architecture concept document(s).
• Identifies opportunities for reuse of architecture concepts or software parts and cross‑team synergies.
• Aligns architecture with stakeholders regarding architectural or technical dependencies.
• Supports and advises product owner by ensuring technical and architectural feasibility, readiness, and compliance.
• Is responsible for setting up collaboration with the developers/architects of the product team/implementation team(s) and contributes to all tasks of implementation team/product team.
• Coaches and advises implementation team(s) on all aspects which have impact on the architecture, reviews design documents of implementation teams regarding compliance with architectural designs and relevant Technology Guidelines.
• Monitors implementation of the architecture concepts together with implementation team.
• Implements software parts, typically related to infrastructure or architecture.
• Proposes improvements and innovations for implementing a product but also in development processes and methodologies.

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science with 10 years or a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with 15+ years professional experience in Software Development.
• 7+ Years professional experience designing AI/ML architectures at enterprise scale.
• Expert in Java software development.
• Ability to work in an agile development environment and capable of working effectively in cross‑cultural global teams.
• Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills, results‑oriented, customer‑oriented attitude, good strategic and conceptual thinking skills.
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and appealing manner.

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