Forward Deployed Engineering Expert - Data & AI Architect, SAP Industry AI

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.

In this role, you design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and platforms that enable analytics, reporting, and advanced data driven use cases embedded directly within customer environments and fast-moving delivery teams. You translate business and analytical requirements into robust, maintainable data solutions and ensure that data is reliable, secure, and accessible across the organization. You work closely with customers and combine cloud native software engineering, enterprise data engineering, and production grade AI capabilities to solve complex real world business problems at speed. You are accountable for the technical quality, scalability, and business impact of delivered solutions within customer engagements. You operate at the intersection of engineering, data, AI, and customer delivery, collaborating closely with product, architecture, ML, and customer teams to accelerate adoption of AI driven enterprise solutions while maintaining alignment with SAP engineering and security standards

What you Bring

You have experience in data engineering, including the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT frameworks, and enterprise data models. You operate effectively in an Agentic AI environment, contributing to the design, implementation, and responsible adoption of AI agents within complex business processes. You are proficient in SQL and Python and have experience working with modern data platforms, including data warehouses, data lakes, distributed processing frameworks, lakehouse architectures, and cloud-based data technologies. Your background includes data quality, data governance, compliance, PII protection, and data lifecycle management within enterprise environments. You translate business and analytical requirements into scalable, reliable, and maintainable data solutions while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams. You design, develop, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, apply enterprise data modeling, workflow orchestration, and system integration practices, and leverage technologies such as PySpark, Databricks, Apache Airflow, SAP HANA, Parquet, Delta Lake, and Kafka to support large-scale batch and real-time data processing. You also apply CI/CD practices, Docker, Git, automated testing, and DevOps principles to build secure, scalable, and operationally efficient data engineering solutions.

What you Build

In this role, you will:

Where you Belong

You will be part of a growing AI and industry expert team dedicated to serving customers across the region (Americas, Europe, Asia). We are building a collaborative, high-impact environment that brings together deep AI expertise, strong industry knowledge, and regional understanding to help customers innovate, transform, and lead in their markets.

This team thrives on working together to turn complex business challenges into practical, scalable solutions. You will find an environment that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, where new ideas are encouraged and real-world impact matters. This is a place for people who enjoy building something new. You will thrive here if you are customer-centric, motivated by meaningful outcomes, and comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-evolving AI landscape.

We work closely with decision-makers, challenge assumptions with data, and give data scientists room to influence strategy—not just produce analysis. We value sharp thinking, business curiosity, and clear communication.

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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: 458129 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: