Job Description

Requisition ID: 279477
Work Area: Software-Design and Development
Expected Travel: 0 - 10%
Career Status: Professional
Employment Type: Regular Full Time

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

SAP started in 1972 as a team of five colleagues with a desire to do something new. Together, they changed enterprise software and reinvented how business was done. Today, as a market leader in enterprise application software, we remain true to our roots. Thats why we engineer solutions to fuel innovation, foster equality and spread opportunity for our employees and customers across borders and cultures.

SAP values the entrepreneurial spirit, fostering creativity and building lasting relationships with our employees. We know that a diverse and inclusive workforce keeps us competitive and provides opportunities for all. We believe that together we can transform industries, grow economics, lift up societies and sustain our environment. Because its the best-run businesses that make the world run better and improve peoples lives.

Please note: this position will be based from either our Palo Alto, CA or San Ramon, CA office, once offices safely re-open.

About SAP SuccessFactors

SAP SuccessFactors is a world-leading provider of cloud human experience management (HXM) the new people-focused market category for Human Resource technology. Our HXM suite lets more than 7,000 global customers provide their employees with experiences that recognize their individual value and consistently motivate them to achieve peak performance levels values we also live by. Working on the SAP SuccessFactors team means making an impact to over 160m global users with a market leading cloud solution.

About the Role

As a Principal Cloud Architect, you will report directly into the VP of Architecture in SuccessFactors' Cloud Management and Migration unit OneStrike Program. You will be working on advancing SuccessFactors' system architecture for the transformation to public clouds, in close collaboration with engineering, operations, product management, quality engineering and customer success teams. This is a highly visible role and instrumental in shaping the strategic technical direction. The candidate must have a strong background in system architecture, infrastructure automation, and cloud scalability.

Responsibilities:

* Architect highly available and scalable services leveraging cloud and open source technologies
* Solve hard-core technology problems availability, scalability, performance in the cloud, prevents and fights significant business impacting technological fires
* Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, operations and quality teams to execute the transformation to public clouds and enable customer success
* Create, influence and apply cloud architecture views & viewpoints and drive adoption of cloud standards
* Document and present methodologies and architectural documents to operations, engineering and executive teams
* Contribute and maintain strategic alignment on technology strategy and priorities with engineering leadership and SAP's Cross Product Architecture (CPA)
* Create a leading brand by speaking at architect forums and SAP internal conferences, collaborates closely across the company with other architects to maintain a strong, healthy collaborative relationship with other groups

Qualifications:

* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience required, Masters Degree preferred.
* 8+ years of experience in developing high volume SaaS based solutions and underlying DB, Compute, Storage, and Platform technologies
* 3+ years of experience as an Architect with a proven track record of designing large scale, distributed, highly available, fault tolerant systems in the multi cloud environments across geographically distributed data centers
* Deep expertise in GCP capabilities, native services and their limitations
* Broad technology expertise including Docker, Kubernetes, Databases, REST, Public Cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP), Application Security
* Hands-on experience with industry standard DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, Tekton, Chef, Spinnaker, HashiCorp Vault, Terraform, Grafana, etc.)
* Familiarity with HCM and SAP Technologies beneficial but not required
* Excellent software development troubleshooting and debugging skills
* Focused, responsible individual who enjoys working on a team and thrives under pressure
* Strong presence and excellent communication skills with technical focus

WHAT YOU GET FROM US

Success is what you make it. At SAP, we help you make it your own. A career at SAP can open many doors for you. If youre searching for a company thats dedicated to your ideas and individual growth, recognizes you for your unique contributions, fills you with a strong sense of purpose, and provides a fun, flexible and inclusive work environment apply now.

SAP'S DIVERSITY COMMITMENT
To harness the power of innovation, SAP invests in the development of its diverse employees. We aspire to leverage the qualities and appreciate the unique competencies that each person brings to the company.

SAP is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you 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 (Americas: Careers.NorthAmerica@sap.com or Careers.LatinAmerica@sap.com, APJ: Careers.APJ@sap.com, EMEA: Careers@sap.com).

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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