Principal Data Scientist/ AI Application Development Expert

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. 

What you'll do:

In your role as Principal Data Scientist/ AI Application Development Expert, you will be responsible for the design, coding, testing, and quality assurance in a development team. You will assess and solve issues in new or existing code, and work with high attention to detail, reliability, and efficiency. You will collaborate closely with your team members to ensure success. In your day-to-day you will: 

• Work with a team of highly technical and motivated developers. 
• Collaborate and work with teams spread across geographies and time zones. 
• You will work on the entire lifecycle of development projects, both customer specific and SAP-defined.  
• Design, develop, deploy and monitor efficient AI/ML modules that drives complex business applications. 
• Adhere to SAP's agile engineering practices and processes. Own your code from ideation to development, across the full stack and through QA and support. 
• You will work on multiple topics and technologies with adequate enablement. 
• Product Delivery: Define product plans and execute against a committed delivery timeline; Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team   
•  Lead the team to execute enablement, governance, execution, delivery, research projects in Private Cloud organization.
• Create architecture documents and concept papers for various new technologies and bring innovation with the team from product, process side.
• Product Support: Manage customer expectations via product support ensuring high standards in incident processing, quality of interactions, and fixes that are delivered. Development Expertise: Provide functional, architectural guidance to the team.  
• Technical Hands-On: Maintain a hands-on approach to deliver highly available and scalable services with a strong focus on aspects such as resiliency, observability, scalability, monitoring, and FinOps.  
• Lead with example: Contribute towards teams success with your SAP application development experience and technical business domain knowledge.

What you bring:

You are a hands-on person with an inspiring can-do mentality focusing on outcomes and a strong delivery attitude. You are an empathetic and solution-oriented person, keeping the diverse developer communities of SAP’s product engineering organisations and our customers and partners in focus.

• University Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 10+ years of experience in software product development with a focus on developing cloud services and solutions.  

• Overall 10+ years that include 5+ years of relevant work experience: software development, architecture, data science with cross-domain, cross-functional and cross-product expertise with demonstrated knowledge and skills that are both broad and deep. 
  • Strong analytical problem solving and decision-making skills.  
  • Proven hands-on experience in AI development, with a focus on Generative AI technologies.
  • Good understanding of SAP-relevant development processes and lifecycle, and how to establish a fast feedback and delivery cycle between customers and SAP 
  • Previous experience with business applications like S/4HANA Cloud, public & private edition is highly desirable. 
  • Strong practical understanding of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) or any other cloud platform for development and integration.
  • Experience in prompt engineering and designing effective AI model.
  • Familiarity with Business Data Cloud (BDC), Agentic AI and its applications.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies and version control systems (e.g., Git).
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as ABAP/Python/TypeScript/Nodejs and ML/AI frameworks such as Langraph, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
  • Foster a robust, unified team atmosphere by empowering the development team to engage in efficient, smooth cross-collaboration dynamics for optimized productivity. Demonstrate strong organizational skills and comfort in leading change.  
  • Beneficial: Proven track record in planning and executing complex product/service delivery; Experience in defining success KPIs for delivery, ensuring smooth execution and maintaining service quality throughout the process.  
  • Demonstrated ability to share and communicate ideas to executive staff, technical resources and other key constituents in clear, concise language. 
  •  Fluent English language skills, spoken and written.  

Where you Belong: 

SAP PCP Cross Technology and Architecture unit that is driving technology empowering innovations inbusiness and people. It is part of the global organization Private Cloud Products (PCP) dedicated to delivering innovative solutions to meet our customers’ unique business process needs in Private Cloud. 

• You will be joining a dynamic and passionate team dedicated to leveraging AI to facilitate seamless interactions between individuals and information. 
• We foster a culture of collaboration, learning, and growth, encouraging all team members to contribute ideas and perspectives. 
• Enjoy the benefits of working within a diverse and international environment, with opportunities to collaborate with colleagues from around the globe. 

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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Requisition ID: 446334  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid