Development Manager

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

The role

Custom development activities have emerged driven by RISE with SAP and AI customer use cases. We are supporting our customers with unique solutions to transform their businesses for success and it our duty to shape and adapt our Customer Innovation Services Engineering team to the future of enterprise software. 

For this purpose we are looking for a Development Manager to join our team.

The role offers the opportunity to be part of our journey to drive our team and deliver to our customers a wide variety of business processes, industries, technologies and innovative ideas. Being part of our team you will be working with your management peers, Go-to-Market teams, Project Managers, Enterprise & Development Architects, Data Scientists and developers colleagues across EMEA and beyond.

What you'll do

• Grow a team of highly skilled and motivated engineers including career development and skill enhancement to be always ready for the next technological step.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence in software development.
• Act as a problem solver to address organisational and process challenges, leveraging expertise to bridge gaps.
• Act as accountable engineering manager for multiple customer projects which includes steering and management of risks and opportunities.
• Drive cross location initiatives in the areas of best practices, technology, innovation and trainings.
• Work closely with Go-to-Market and sales teams throughout the entire lifecycle of a project to successfully generate demand for SAP.
• Be an ambassador of our organization.

What you bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in a leadership position.
• Familiar with Generative AI concepts.
• Poses strong customer focused mindset.
• Proficient professional network with the local software industry and universities.
• Excellent presentation skills and experienced in customer interactions including escalations. 
• Ability to build and develop teams from scratch, effectively communicating vision and strategy.
• Technical knowledge to command the respect of the engineering team.
• Exposure to & experience in multiple of the following technological areas: S4/HANA development, cloud development, integration and deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Prior experience in one of the programming languages such as ABAP, Python, Java, Javascript, Go.
• Comply with development standards and methodologies (DevOps, Scrum, quality, security, performance).
• You show a self-motivating style of working combined with a continuous learning mindset 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Meet your team

Are you ready to craft custom software that meets unique customer needs and integrates seamlessly with SAP? At Customer Innovation Services Engineering, we're powered by SAP HANA and RISE with SAP to deliver innovative solutions. Based in EMEA, our team is passionate about creating impactful software.

If you're a problem-solver with a passion for technology, apply now and become a part of our exciting journey!

​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 and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and 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: Careers@sap.com
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 404568  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Management  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.