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Principal AgenticAI Engineer / Architect at AI CoE (f/m/d)

Data Science and AI Vollzeit
ID: #11476
Posted: 2026-03-11
Salary

Description

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 do Summary: We are looking for a Principal AI Engineer / AI Architect who can drive enterprise-grade AgenticAI development and lead our engineering scrum teams as technical artifact owner overseeing multiple development streams as well as foundational agenticAI solution- and software architecture decisions. The candidate will have proven and industry-leading skills in Data Science and Data Engineering as well as Software Engineering and Solution Architecture, with an entrepreneurial spirit to join our diverse team and work on innovation projects as well as exceptional leadership and people skills. Role: In this role you drive, oversee and are responsible for the entire development lifecycle of multiple (agentic) AI services, from Data Science PoC to productization and production operations. You own and evolve best practices to impact the AI software quality of many teams which requires you to be able to quickly abstract and evolve concepts around AI software productization that play a pivot role across multiple development scrum teams. This also requires people leadership on a technical level and the ability to properly explain highly complex AI best practices to a team of practitioners and developers such that they can apply them. You are very experienced with general software engineering best practices and enterprise-grade code development applied to an AI space. Concretely this means that next to having profound AI modeling expertise, you are exceptional at working with vast amounts of data in a Big Data setup, professional Data Engineering Pipeline development as well as model deployment/serving and CI/CD setup. To fully understand our stakeholders' problems and challenges a solid business acumen is needed as well. As a development leader you can motivate and guide a scrum team through complex tasks with tight deadlines. Responsibilities / Core Tasks: What you bring Meet your team Within SAP IT, our Enterprise AI CoE team has the purpose to help SAP to transform into a data-driven intelligent enterprise, by empowering SAP employees to simplify processes, leveraging AI technologies. Our vision is to be an advocate and enabler of best-in-class AI within SAP. Our mission is to deliver business value through AI in SAP’s processes and be recognized as AI Thought Leader in the market. We implement both standard SAP AI and custom built solutions across all LoBs. We are customer zero of SAP standard AI solutions and provide continuous feedback to standard development for product improvement. We provide an AI Platform and Infrastructure to entire SAP AI practitioners for building their own ML solutions in the entire ML lifecycle following MLOps methodology. Furthermore, we build and operate a central chatbot platform based on SAP Conversational AI with the aim to provide capabilities from all lines of business through a single digital assistant. We also build those capabilities (individual chatbots) as well as support other teams in building further ones. Within our team, we practice a trust-based working model with emphasis on great collaboration, agility and transparency. We offer a lot of room for creativity and freedom to experiment. Our operating model is based on autonomous/agile team concept (SAFe) and SAP New Work practice where we put people at the center of everything we do. #LI-SGSAP ​ 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. SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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. AI Usage in the Recruitment Process For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process. Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process. Requisition ID: 439754 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part Time or Regular Full Time ​

Hard Skills 3
Skill Source Confidence
Data Pipelines llm_hard
100%
Model Deployment llm_hard
100%
MLOps llm_hard
100%
Soft Skills 20
Skill Source Confidence
Teamwork llm_soft
100%
Collaboration llm_soft
100%
Problem-Solving llm_soft
100%
Explaining Complex Ideas Clearly llm_soft
100%
Leadership llm_soft
100%
People Management llm_soft
100%
Decision-Making llm_soft
100%
Inclusion llm_soft
100%
Creativity llm_soft
100%
Team Leadership llm_soft
100%
Continuous Learning llm_soft
80%
Strategic Thinking llm_soft
80%
Mentoring llm_soft
80%
Coaching llm_soft
80%
Building Trust llm_soft
80%
Adaptability llm_soft
80%
Agility llm_soft
80%
Time Management llm_soft
80%
Initiative llm_soft
80%
Cross-Functional Communication llm_soft
80%
Apply Options
Publisher Direct Link
SAP Yes Apply
Jobtensor No Apply
JobStairs No Apply
Experteer No Apply
LinkedIn No Apply
Indeed No Apply
XING No Apply
Jobilize No Apply
SAP No Apply
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