Lead Application Architect

Company: SAP SE
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: February 18, 2021

Job Description:

Requisition ID: 268088
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time COMPANY DESCRIPTION
SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. That's why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures. SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because it's the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve people's lives. About SAP SuccessFactors: Join a company that can recognize and reward your contributions and provide a workplace to develop your craft. We're a multi-tenant SaaS offerings company, automating HR-centric processes-encompassing the entire lifecycle of employee and business partner engagement. We have: 7000+ customers, 100+ million users and peak daily transaction rates of 1 billion+ per day. We are looking for talented people who share in our vision to deliver continuous innovation in cloud that makes our customers successful. Join our high-energy, high-output, creative colleagues who inspire and challenge each other toward excellence. Position Overview: This position will report directly into the V.P. Engineering of SuccessFactors and can be based in Palo Alto, CA or Reston, VA. The individual will need to possess the following: Technical Strategy:

• Contribute to Application ecosystem strategy in a broad product or platform ecosystem based on technology advancements
• Be a trusted advisor to engineering leadership & align technology vision with their business and technology priorities
• Contribute to and maintain strategic alignment with technology strategy, aligning teams within your product or platform ecosystem
• Maintain strategic alignment with product strategy and external stakeholders such as customers, partners, vendors and analysts
• Lead teams across product or platform ecosystem using One SuccessFactors and One SAP Mindsets
• Create a leading brand by speaking at architect forums and SAP internal conferences
• Leads execution of the critical few architectural priorities for the virtual team of architects and senior technology leaders.
• Assists in aligning the organization around the work for effective execution
• Prevents and fights significant business impacting technological fires
• Create an architectural blueprint for a product or platform ecosystem that can scale and run on public cloud platforms
• Create, influence and apply product ecosystem architecture views & viewpoints
• Balance long term and near-term priorities
• Drive adoption of technology standards--
• Design system/solution architecture to ensure a scalable, performant, highly available secure software product
• Actively participate in design and code reviews Building strong teamsa:
  • Arbitrates technical disagreements across teams
  • Collaborates closely across the company with other architects to maintain a strong, healthy collaborative relationship with other groups
  • Partner with senior engineering leaders and leadership team to assess team strengths and gaps in general or on areas of a specific cross cutting concerns
  • Recruit, develop and retain a strong senior technology team Leading change:
    • Identify, develop and grow architecture talent
    • Participate in building of an architect community across SuccessFactors As Lead Application Architect your job duties will include:
      • Apply technical expertise to challenging / complex architectural designs
      • Experiment with emerging technologies or those coming from SAP to be the tip of the spear to help provide guidance for teams before adoption.--
      • Be passionate about keeping up-to-date with latest technology and the technology for our products.
      • Author clear technical documentation and presentations to communicate architecture and design options to educate engineering teams and product managers
      • Mentoring and coaching top engineering talent
      • Presenting technology related topics internally and external to SAP
      • Arbitrate technology decisions
      • Participate / Assist in Sales efforts and/or interact with Customers to provide technology guidance Qualifications:--
        • CS or MS Degree in Computer Science or related field
        • 10+ years of experience developing high volume SaaS based solutions
        • 5+ years of experience as an Architect with a proven track record of designing large scale, distributed, highly available, fault tolerant applications and services
        • Experienced in Web Services, APIs, Java, Public Cloud (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP), Application Security
        • Familiarity with HCM and SAP Technologies beneficial but not required (e.g HANA, Intelligent Enterprise) #LIRemote Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If you're searching for a company that's dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment - apply now. SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT
          To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company. SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team (Americas:-- Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com --or-- Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com , APJ:-- Careers.APJ@sap.com , EMEA:-- Careers@sap.com ). Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor. Additional Locations:--Virtual - USA
          Nearest Major Market: San Jose
          Nearest Secondary Market: Palo Alto
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