Principal Software Engineer Platform Engineering

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• Lead the technical design and end-to-end delivery of complex product features within SAP Business Network for the US Navy PPS program including concept architecture coding testing and quality assurance.
• Drive architectural and technical decisions for program components ensuring alignment with SAP Business Network platform standards product strategy and government security requirements.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex engineering issues providing expert guidance and definitive technical direction to the development team.
• Define technical deliverables and provide strategic recommendations that influence future product and architectural decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across the engineering organization mentoring and upskilling senior developers while establishing a culture of engineering excellence and well-developed Agile practices.
• Apply expert-level product and technical knowledge to evaluate industry trends solve complex problems and guide teams beyond the immediate scope of the role.
• Champion continuous improvement across development methodologies tooling automation and quality assurance practices to establish state-of-the-art software engineering processes.
• Manage high-volume high-risk and complex projects maintaining milestone tracking project status and technical updates for program management and key stakeholders.
• Serve as SAPs senior technical representative to US Navy customers and strategic partners. Building trusted relationships and communicating technical direction delivery progress and quality expectations.

• U.S. Citizenship:Must be a U.S. Citizen due to the requirements associated with supporting U.S. public sector customers and government environments.
• 10 years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of leading complex enterprise-scale product delivery
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more of: Java JavaScript/TypeScript Python or equivalent languages in a cloud-native production environment
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems architecture microservices design RESTful/OData API development and modern cloud platforms (SAP BTP AWS Azure or GCP)
• Extensive experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures including Kafka-based event streaming asynchronous communication and reliable event processing across distributed systems.
• Strong experience with long-running distributed workflows including Temporal or similar workflow orchestration technologies with a focus on reliability fault tolerance state management and recovery.
• Experience leading or contributing to large-scale data platform migrations including migration from legacy or existing data platforms to Databricks with consideration for data integrity performance scalability and operational continuity.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-complexity technical projects define deliverables and ensure milestones are met within approved scope
• Robust communication skills: able to formulate clear technical plans communicate with constructive feedback and represent SAP credibly to customers and partners
• Comfortable with both deep technical contribution and cross-functional stakeholder management
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related discipline (or equivalentpracticalexperience)

• Hands-on product development experience with SAP Business Network SAP Ariba or related procurement platforms
• Prior experience delivering software for government defense or other regulated industry customers
• Familiarity with SAP BTP services CAPM framework SAP Integration Suite event-driven architecture and long running workflows.
• Experience acting as a Scrum Master or technical servant-leader within an agile/LEAN development team
• Knowledge of procurement supply chain or spend management domain processes

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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.

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Requisition ID: 456980 Work Area: Software-Design and Development Expected Travel: 0 - 10% Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid