Senior Data Scientist

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Senior Data Engineer 

What you`ll do 

At SAP, we amplify the strength of AI technology, fusing it with our robust industry-focused data and profound process knowledge. Our vision is to infuse every SAP application with sophisticated AI capabilities, revolutionizing the way businesses operate.  Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming Machine Learning but pose challenges in business applications due to their limited understanding of structured and unstructured business data such as business data models, business process metadata and documentation, which slows the development progress. It is SAP's mission to overcome these challenges within the realm of Business AI. Our goal is to provide Knowledge Graphs (KG) as key differentiators to address LLM challenges like hallucination and compliance and to deliver distinctive generative AI solutions to our customers. 

As a Senior Data Engineer (f/m/d), you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the data engineering activities for the Business Knowledge Graphs team at SAP. 

The Role: 

Unique opportunity to contribute to the development of Knowledge Graph solutions covering SAP domain knowledge and providing grounding to LLM applications (e.g. Joule). 

Build ETL pipelines to lead the ingestion of data, metadata, and other development artifacts into our Knowledge Graph. 

Partner with domain experts across different lines of business (LoB) at SAP, understand and interpret their data, metadata, and other development artifacts and make it consumable in our Knowledge Graph. 

Extract relevant information from various LoB data sources for further processing and enrichment of our large-scale Knowledge Graph serving the Foundation Model and other LLM use cases. 

Contribute to design and build stable and scalable applications. 

Guide and inspire the Business Knowledge Graph team with your expertise in understanding the data. 

Guide junior project members and shape collaborations with stakeholders. 

Make critical design decisions regarding the selection and implementation of underlying technologies. 

Contribute to thought leadership in an entirely new approach towards generative AI, using the combination of Knowledge Graphs and Foundation Models in business contexts. 

What you bring 

• 5+ years of related professional experience in Software Engineering with at least 2 years of professional experience as a data engineer. 
• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, physics, mathematics, or other relevant disciplines. 
• Proficiency in Python as well as experience building ETL pipelines with Metaflow, Airflow or similar frameworks. 
• Hands-on experience in any of the cloud stacks (AWS, GCP, Azure, BTP). 
• Experience in building data pipeline activities for projects, ideally related to data science projects, e.g. with Large Language Models. 
• Understanding of SAP S/4HANA backend (ABAP and Data Dictionary) and data models (e.g., VDM, CDS Views, RAP, OData) is a plus. 
• Experience with object stores, relational databases or vector databases. 
• Experience with Knowledge Graph technologies (e.g., RDF, SPARQL) is a plus. 
• Curiosity and interest to experiment and adopt new technologies and frameworks. 
• Strong communication, collaboration and leadership skills, experience with agile methodology and an ability to work effectively in distributed, cross-cultural teams. 

Meet your team 

• SAP's AI organization is dedicated to seamlessly infusing AI into all enterprise applications, enabling 
• customers, partners, and developers to enhance business processes and generate remarkable business 
• value. Join our international AI team where innovation thrives, opportunities for personal development abound, and exceptional colleagues collaborate globally. 

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​Bring out your best

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Requisition ID: 411736  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.