Platform Engineering Lead - Edge Integration Cell of SAP Integration Suite

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.

What You'll Build

As a Platform Engineering Lead / Development Manager, you will lead an empowered team of around 10 engineers responsible for the Edge Integration Cell, a strategic platform extending SAP Integration capabilities beyond the cloud to edge environments through a highly efficient, low-footprint architecture.

You will combine people leadership, technical expertise, and AI-driven engineering practices to build innovative integration services, accelerate developer productivity, and drive engineering excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of your team's products, ensuring excellence in execution, quality, reliability, and operational maturity.
• Drive the adoption of AI-powered engineering practices, including agentic development tools, specification-driven workflows, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted quality engineering.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, UX, Architects, and peer engineering teams within an Empowered Product Team (EPT) to deliver customer-centric outcomes.
• Translate strategic business objectives into clear engineering priorities, roadmaps, and actionable backlogs.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, and hands-on guidance for complex engineering challenges.
• Build secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable platform services that advance SAP's integration strategy.
• Continuously improve usability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across the product landscape.
• Coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow their careers while building the next generation of technical leaders.

What You Bring

You are a passionate engineering leader with a strong technical background, a product mindset, and a proven ability to build and grow high-performing teams. You enjoy operating at the intersection of technology, people, and business, and are comfortable leading through both strategy and execution.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience with a proven track record of success.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or cloud-native product development, including people leadership responsibilities.
• Proven track record of building, scaling, and operating cloud-based products and services.
• Strong experience across the full software development lifecycle in cloud and hybrid environments including delivery management.
• Deep understanding of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and AI-assisted software development practices.
• Strong technical credibility with the ability to contribute to architecture decisions, technical strategy, and engineering trade-offs.
• Experience translating complex business and technical requirements into effective engineering execution plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse teams around a shared vision.
• A data-driven and outcome-oriented mindset with a strong focus on innovation, quality, and operational excellence.
• Passion for coaching and developing people while creating an inclusive and high-performing team culture.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills.

Where You Belong

You will join the SAP Integration organization within SAP Business AI Platform (BAIP), the team behind SAP's strategic integration technologies and cloud services.

Our portfolio includes SAP Integration Suite, a market-leading enterprise integration platform used by thousands of customers worldwide. The platform enables integration across complex hybrid and heterogeneous landscapes, supporting application, API, event-driven, and business-to-business integration scenarios while providing a reliable foundation for enterprise-scale AI adoption.

As part of a globally distributed organization, you will collaborate with product and engineering teams across Germany, India, Canada, the United States, China, and Bulgaria. Together, we are building next-generation integration capabilities that connect business processes, data, applications, and AI services across the SAP ecosystem and beyond.

Shape the future of SAP Integration Suite, with a strong focus on Edge Integration Cell, platform engineering, and AI-powered software delivery. Lead a high-performing team building innovative solutions that power mission-critical business processes worldwide.

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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AI Usage in the Recruitment Process

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Requisition ID: 457211 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid