Development Manager - Business Data Cloud - Data Product Runtime Team

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.

About the Team

Join the SAP Business Data Cloud, a team contributing to one of SAP's most strategic products. We are a key part of the organization, driving end-to-end features and services in the Business Data Cloud. Our team’s mission is to lead cutting-edge projects focused on optimizing our data product runtime architecture, driving innovation and strategic technical decisions that impact the entire platform.

What You'll Do

As a Development Manager, you will lead a skilled and motivated agile team of developers focused on the core of our data processing engine:

Lead, coach, and mentor a team of skilled engineers in an open, trust-based environment, supporting their career progression and empowering them to succeed.

Shape the team’s culture around agility, ownership, deep technical expertise, and innovation.

Guide the team in analyzing and refining Spark workloads to enhance performance and resource efficiency, including tuning, re-engineering data pipelines, and ensuring optimal execution strategies.

Drive the technical vision for implementing robust monitoring solutions to detect, diagnose, and resolve complex runtime issues related to resource allocation, execution errors, or data inconsistencies.

Collaborate across the organization with product managers, architects, and other global teams to design and build a framework that allows Business Data Cloud workloads to scale effortlessly and elastically.

Lead AI-automation initiatives within the team to improve workload scalability and efficiency.

Act as a bridge between Product Managers and your team, analyzing new requirements and organizing the delivery of technical solutions that meet SAP's high standards for quality, security, performance, and resilience.

Champion best practices by producing documentation on Spark optimization and fostering knowledge sharing to enhance the broader team’s expertise.

What You Bring

Leadership \& Vision: Proven leadership experience in technical roles, with a passion for scalable, enterprise-grade software architecture and a strategic vision to foresee industry advancements.

Team \& Culture: A passion for motivating, coaching, and developing talent. You are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, innovative spirit with a high degree of accountability and transparency.

Collaboration \& Communication: Excellent communication, mentorship, and international collaboration skills in English. You demonstrate strong empathy for customers and internal stakeholders to deliver satisfying solutions.

Technical Expertise:

• Familiarity with principles of distributed computing (concurrency, fault tolerance, network latency).

• Knowledge of Apache Spark architecture, including its core components and execution model.

• Expertise in performance profiling and tuning Spark applications, including resource allocation, parallelism, and shuffling.

• Debugging skills to identify and resolve complex runtime issues in a distributed environment.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Spark's web UI, Ganglia, Grafana, or Prometheus.

• Understanding of AI/ML trends and their application in distributed data query execution.

Education \& Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

• Experience with Data Warehouse or Analytics projects is a strong advantage.

Meet Your Team

Though spread across multiple locations, we operate as a unified team, working collaboratively to achieve our goals. We're excited to have you on board to lead, innovate, and share your expertise with us. Your success is our success.

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

For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

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: 430180 \| Work Area: Software-Design and Development \| Expected Travel: 0 - 10% \| Career Status: Management \| Employment Type: Regular Full Time \| Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.