SAP Technical Architect - Development & UX

With a passion for life

Join our diverse teams of passionate people and a career that allows you to develop both personally and professionally. At Getinge we exist to make life-saving technology accessible for more people. To make a true difference for our customers – and to save more lives, we need team players, forward thinkers, and game changers.

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SAP Technical Architect - Development & UX (m/f/d)

Your responsibilities

• Hold overall technical responsibility for SAP development and SAP UX governance across all SAP solutions
• Steer our external nearshore development partners functionally and technically, from requirement to acceptance, including review of solution designs and effort estimates
• Establishing design guidelines, and interaction concepts
• Define quality and delivery standards for development partners and evaluate their performance
• Build and evolve a global SAP development governance with binding guidelines for ABAP OO, RAP, CDS, OData, SAPUI5, Fiori Elements and SAP BTP extensions, and enforce these standards for internal developers and offshore support teams
• Establish quality gates such as architecture and code reviews, testing strategies, ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) and transport and release processes
• Define the clean core strategy and roadmap: analyze and reduce existing custom code and modifications, move new developments to the ABAP Cloud development model and released APIs, and track progress with measurable clean core KPIs
• Define the extensibility strategy for SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP (on-stack and side-by-side), including standards for APIs, integrations and event-driven architectures
• Drive the introduction of AI into SAP development, from AI-assisted coding, code review, testing and documentation (e.g. SAP Joule for Developers, GitHub Copilot) to AI-based extensions on SAP BTP
• Define guidelines for the responsible use of AI in development, covering code quality, security, intellectual property and regulatory requirements, including expectations towards development partners
• Develop the SAP UX strategy and lead the transition from a largely SAP GUI-based landscape to SAP Fiori, prioritized by business value and user adoption
• Define standards for the Fiori launchpad, spaces & pages, business catalogs and role models in close collaboration with the authorization and Basis teams
• Support our S/4HANA transformation program with architecture decisions and introduce modern development tools and practices such as SAP Business Application Studio, Git and CI/CD
• Coach internal developers and build an SAP developer community that shares knowledge on clean core and AI-assisted development
• Maintain compliance with all quality standards and regulatory requirements

Your profile

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in SAP development, including several years as lead developer, development architect or in a comparable role
• Strong expertise in ABAP OO, RAP, CDS, OData / SAP Gateway, SAPUI5 and SAP Fiori
• Hands-on experience with clean core transformation, custom code analysis and remediation, and the ABAP Cloud development model
• Proven track record in steering external development partners (nearshore / offshore)
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools and a clear view on how AI can improve productivity and quality in SAP development
• Good understanding of the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines and UX principles
• Experience with SAP BTP, SAP Business Application Studio, SAP Build Work Zone, SAP AI Core / Generative AI Hub and CI/CD (Git, Azure DevOps) is an advantage
• Proactive, analytical, and structured working style
• Ability to drive standards through expertise and persuasion, without formal authority
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence developers, partners and senior stakeholders
• Strong ability to manage expectations and balance conflicting priorities
• Very good English skills (written and spoken) for international collaboration; [German is an advantage]
• Interest in innovative technologies and new trends

Our offer

• High-quality products in a life-saving environment
• Attractive conditions, 30 vacation days per year
• Trusted working hours and possibility of mobile working
• Modern workplace equipment
• JobRad and corporate benefits (employee discounts)
• Career opportunities in a well-known company
• Individual training and further education opportunities

Are you interested in this opportunity? We look forward to receiving your application via our careers portal. Please submit your application documents exclusively through our online careers portal. Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications sent by post or email.

About us 

With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions aiming to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 12,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in more than 135 countries.

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.