Development Architect - Product Processes & Solutions (PP&S)

The Corporate Processes & IT (CPIT) organization is responsible for evolving and executing SAP's IT strategy, driving the internal adoption of standard applications across all lines of business. Within CPIT, Product Processes & Solutions (PP&S) drives portfolio and process transformation across SAP's product organization, operating across three delivery areas — Engineering & Technology, Solution Support, and Cloud Operations. As the AI Architect, you are the technical backbone of PP&S's AI capability — defining how AI is built, governed, and scaled across SAP's Innovate-to-Operate lifecycle. You set the architecture standards, control the tooling decisions, and ensure AI investments stack rather than scatter across the portfolio, working in close partnership with the AI Engagement Lead and the architects embedded in PP&S's delivery units.

Key activities:

• Define and govern the I2O AI reference architecture across PP&S's three delivery areas (Engineering & Technology, Solution Support, Cloud Operations)
• Set integration patterns, tooling evaluation standards, and reuse frameworks to prevent fragmentation across multiple concurrent AI initiatives
• Provide architectural input to tool and platform decisions and maintain the central tooling registry in partnership with Enterprise Architecture
• Produce architecture decision records and technical standards teams are expected to follow
• Lead the PP&S data strategy for AI — identify, structure, and govern the data assets that underpin I2O AI use cases
• Resolve data access and quality issues across CPIT, Finance, HR, and PP&S delivery areas
• Ensure data architecture is available, governed, and structured for AI workloads running on SAP BTP, AI Core, and BDC
• Evaluate new AI technologies and frameworks — LLM orchestration patterns, agentic frameworks, and MCP-based integrations — for fit and viability within SAP's environment
• Establish viability of new approaches through proof-of-concept work alongside engineering teams
• Provide architecture guidance to the AI analytics and reporting infrastructure that tracks adoption and efficiency gains across I2O

What you bring:

• 8+ years in solution architecture, AI/ML engineering, or technical program delivery, with at least 3 years in an explicit architecture role in an enterprise context
• Hands-on experience with SAP's AI stack: SAP BTP, AI Core, Business Data Cloud (BDC), MCP Servers — you have built with these, not just advised on them
• Strong command of modern AI/LLM patterns: RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, agentic frameworks (e.g. ReAct), and LLM orchestration
• Proficiency in Python for prototyping, evaluation, and hands-on PoC work alongside engineering teams
• Proven experience defining and owning architecture in large-scale, multi-stakeholder environments
• Excellent documentation skills — architecture decision records are a core deliverable
• Comfortable engaging senior business and IT stakeholders; able to translate between technical depth and organizational complexity
• Fluent English; German is a plus

Education: University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Information Systems; master's preferred

What you get from us:

• Constant learning and skill growth in a wide range of technology areas
• A team that wants you to grow and succeed
• Flexible working models with a strong focus on health and well-being
• Recognition for individual contributions and a variety of benefit options to choose from

We help the world run better. At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work.

SAP is the 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 more than 200 million users and over 100,000 employees worldwide, we serve over 400,000 customers and touch 80% of global commerce across more than 20 industries.

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. SAP is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.