Head of Engineering Processes & Solutions (f/m/d)

We help the world run better

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. 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.

What you’ll do

As part of Corporate Processes & IT, the Product, Data & Technology (PDT) unit delivers cutting-edge solutions that drive innovation at scale bringing business value and enabling transformation across SAP. Our primary objective is to effectively manage all product-related processes and the corresponding IT delivery for our product development, support, and cloud operations (Innovate-to-Operate). This means we are responsible for ensuring exceptional developer experience and operational excellence through service management, as well as leveraging consistent and high-quality master data for product commercialization.

As Head of Engineering Processes & Solutions (f/m/d), you will be responsible for Hyperspace, our internal development platform, which plays a crucial role in Innovate-to-Operate. By aligning and consolidating activities that impact development productivity and developer experience, Hyperspace strives to enable SAP development teams to play in the DORA high-performing cluster (DevOps Research & Assessment by Google Cloud: https://dora.dev/). In addition to the evolution of Hyperspace, you will build a team to launch new service offerings covering product planning and product management processes & capabilities to support SAP’s newly established harmonized product operating model. With your energy and passion, we can realize our dream of becoming the best developer workplace in the industry.

Lead and inspire your teams:

• Establish and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and drive business engagement.
• Build a world-class developer workplace that enables engineers to realize SAP’s ambition to be #1 Enterprise application and Business AI company.
• Build a high-performing organization by establishing trustful relationships and empowered teams.
• Define a compelling strategy to further evolve Hyperspace and drive its execution by breaking it down into actionable objectives.
• Build the solution from a customer perspective, delivering end-to-end value.
• Drive the innovation of Hyperspace along latest market trends and capabilities to increase developer productivity at SAP.
• Manage IT operations and support across the entire Hyperspace solution portfolio, drive operational excellence and deliver quality compliant solutions at scale.
• Expand service offerings into product planning and product management.

What you bring:

• Leadership qualities & track record in engaging with Executives and Senior Managers in Engineering.
• Ability to establish, influence and communicate our Hyperspace strategy and vision on C-level.
• Proven experience in building partnerships across organizations to drive shared success.
• Proven experience in the execution of strategy.
• Extensive experience of organizational change management with the ability to drive operational change both internally and with partners.
• Extensive experience of engineering productivity, strong entrepreneurship, stakeholder communication.
• A pragmatic hands-on approach and be a cross-organizational team player.
• Excellent understanding of how to establish product management related processes and tools at enterprise scale.
• Proven experience developing the maturity of business units through innovation, problem solving and process management.
• Excellent understanding of DevOps trends and best practices in the software industry.
• Good knowledge of IT/Cloud auditing and compliance controls (ISO etc).
• Good knowledge in SAP’s development processes and frameworks.
• Minimum Job Experience: 10+ Years; thereof within SAP context: 5+ years.
• Experience as Manager.
• Experience in driving initiatives across large organizations.

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.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide 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.

Requisition ID: 408607 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 30% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Global role (possible locations are Walldorf, Bangalore or Sofia)