Development Manager – SAP BTP Foundation, Central Cloud Services

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.

Role

We are looking for a great people-person to join our team: A strong, committed, self-motivated, reliable, and analytically skilled team-player, owning and shaping the future of key services in SAP Business Technology Platform.

You will work as a part of a highly motivated team located both in Israel and Sofia.

As a Development Manager you will recruit, build, and manage a local agile team of developers.

Together you will grow expertise in the group’s services and will contribute to their ongoing development.

You will work together with the development leads, product owners and development operations colleagues in the group to create value for our stakeholders and customers.

You will support the effort to keep the services alive and stable at enterprise-grade level.

What you`ll do:

• Product delivery – define product plans and execute against a committed delivery timeline. Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team (including developer on duty 24/7 support shifts and manager on duty shifts).
• Co-Product ownership together with the product owners. Together you will be responsible over complete software development lifecycle: designing, leading implementation, testing of new features and ensure adoption by stakeholders within a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Development expertise – provide functional and architectural guidance to the team.
• Technical hands-on – maintain a hands-on approach to deliver highly available and scalable services with strong focus on aspects such as: security, resiliency, observability, scalability, monitoring and FinOps.
• People management – management of people including active engagement, staffing, talent management, career aspirations, mentoring and enhancing skills of team members.
• Location leadership – Actively contribute and drive various leadership initiatives for the location e.g. cross unit collaboration, training plan execution, general administration, hiring & internship management, etc.

What you bring:

• Degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software product development with the focus on developing cloud services and solutions.
• Have a proven track record of building a culture of design excellence that develops high impact products.
• Strong advocate for agile development processes with experience implementing well-run, agile processes in multiple functions including development, QA, release & deployment.
• Ability to communicate vision and strategy effectively.
• Foster a robust, unified team atmosphere and empower the development team to engage in efficient, smooth cross-collaboration dynamics for optimized productivity.
• Effectively lead teams, manage customer incidents promptly and ensure concerns are addressed within the SLA period.
• Mentor and support other developers in solving technically challenging issues, enabling them to benefit from your extensive experience and expertise.
• Possess strong organizational skills and be comfortable with leading change.
• Partner with other teams and individuals across the organization to tackle intricate technical & business challenges.
• Required technology exposure & experience:
  • SaaS delivery based on microservice architecture.
  • Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes etc.
  • Cloud integration and deployment on AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go and Java.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding and expertise in DevOps methodologies and principles.
• Results driven with excellent execution skills.
• Self-managed.
• Fluent English.

Meet your team :

In SAP Central Cloud Services, we aim to provide the best-in-class end-to-end solutions for developers and LOBs creating, extending, and accessing SAP applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).

We are building services that help both internal stakeholders and external customers adopt BTP with the highest technical standards.

Among these services you can find SAP Application Frontend (hosting and managing frontend applications for SAP external and internal customers), Unified Gateway (an entry point to SAP cloud solutions that offers traffic management, security, monitoring, and harmonization for SAP Intelligent Suite APIs) and the K8s infrastructure for Business Application Studio (development environment, tailored for efficient development of business applications for the Intelligent Enterprise).

These services are a key part of the SAP BTP strategy and complete end-to-end experience we deliver in our technology group.

​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.
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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: 407322 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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