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What you build

As a Senior (AI) Engineer Lead, you will be a key member of the newly established Adopt2Consume (A2C) Insights & Data Foundation team. The team supports SAP’s vision of becoming a data-driven company by building a consistent and reliable data foundation that accelerates the development of best-in-class AI solutions, applications, and analytical dashboards.

The team’s work plays a critical role in SAP’s overall transformation and is a key building block in enabling data-driven innovation across the organization.

The Role:

In this role, you will partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and architects to translate ambitious ideas into production‑ready AI solutions. Proven experience serving as a Lead in a software engineering environment is essential, as you will drive architectural decisions, set engineering standards, and guide teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.

While not mandatory, experience acting as an Engineering Lead specifically in an AI or LLM‑focused software engineering environment is a significant plus, as it will accelerate your ability to design and scale advanced AI capabilities.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Work with our data foundation and analytics experts to unlock the full potential of our data in an agile, collaborative environment.

• Drive the architecture, design, and scaling of Generative AI and agent‑based systems, guiding teams from early prototypes to stable, production‑ready solutions.

• Provide technical leadership for the design and implementation of robust data and application pipelines supporting LLM‑powered products, including retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG).

• Champion the introduction and maturation of Agent Ops capabilities, establishing engineering standards for managing, automating, and improving the lifecycle of AI agents and LLM applications.

• Ensure operational excellence by defining and enforcing best practices for reliability, observability, monitoring, and compliance across AI‑driven software systems.

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience, including demonstrated leadership in a Software Engineering Lead role.

• Fluent English and a hands‑on, solution‑oriented approach to guiding engineering teams.

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments (Azure, AWS) using Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.

• Experience leading teams or initiatives within agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe) using tools such as Jira.

• Advanced programming skills in Python or Java, supported by strong software engineering and architectural design principles.

Optional, but preferred skills:

• Practical experience building and deploying LLM‑based applications, ideally in a leadership capacity.

• Familiarity with Agent Ops tools (e.g., Lang Smith, Lang Fuse, MLflow) to support engineering observability and delivery excellence.

• Experience in designing and building Knowledge Graphs

• Familiarity with SAP AI Core, SAP BTP, SAP Busines Data Cloud (BDC)

• Experience with Agentic AI Frameworks (e.g., Lang Graph, CrewAI, Microsoft Agent Framework)

Meet your team

The A2C Insights & Data Foundation plays a key role in driving SAP’s transformation by strategically shaping and implementing a central data foundation cross Adopt to Consume purposes of our customers.

With this data foundation, we are able design and develop harmonized analytical insights across AI solutions, applications, and roles, breaking down siloed data structures and enabling simplified, accurate, and consistent data consumption for end users.

Ultimately, our goal is to ensure we as SAP best support our customers through reliable insights and a unified data experience.

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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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process.

Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.

Requisition ID: 447271 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: