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The Senior SAP BTP & AI Architect is responsible for designing, guiding and implementing intelligent, enterprise-grade solutions on SAP Business Technology Platform. The role combines advanced architecture work with hands-on experience in SAP products and AI/LLM capabilities. This position supports SAP’s AI-First, Suite-First strategy, enabling measurable customer outcomes, accelerating innovation adoption and driving value realization.

Key Responsibilities
The Senior SAP BTP & AI Architect acts as a trusted advisor for customers and partners, promoting the adoption of SAP Build and AI technologies in alignment with company strategy. The role is responsible for defining and guiding clean core and cloud ready architectures using SAP BTP, CAP or ABAP Cloud and AI, as well as delivering short- and mid-term proof-of-concept engagements to validate technical approaches and accelerate innovation. The architect provides product and use case guidance to customers and partners while ensuring high-quality and consistent architectural recommendations. Internally, the architect is recognized as an expert in SAP Build and AI, supporting teams with deep domain knowledge, best practices and innovation patterns. The role contributes to customer value realization in cloud-first engagement models and collaborates across SAP teams to ensure alignment between strategy and execution, supporting simplification, scale and profitable cloud growth.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience with SAP BTP (Cloud Foundry, Kyma).

• Strong architecture and development background in SAP CAP or RAP, CDS and Fiori/UI5.

• Deep understanding of clean core extensibility concepts.

• Hands-on experience with SAP AI Core and SAP AI Launchpad.

• General understanding of identity management and access governance using SAP Cloud Identity Services.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience integrating AI into enterprise applications using CAP, event-driven patterns and BTP services.

• Deep hands-on expertise in IAS/IPS and XSUAA identity management.

• Experience with LLM frameworks (MCP Servers/Clients, Lang Chain, etc).

• Experience with SAP Event Mesh, Workflow Management or Process Automation.

• Understanding of cloud-native concepts (Kubernetes, Kyma, containers).

• Knowledge of S/4HANA data models and released APIs.

Soft Skills

• Fluent English (mandatory).

• Strong communication and advisory skills.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.

• Clear, structured communication of complex topics.

• Proactive and solution-oriented approach.

• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing capabilities.

Additional Information

• Travel requirement: up to 30%.

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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AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Requisition ID: 446561 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: