• Job Description

  Req#: 427263

  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. 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.

  What you'll do

  The Office of the CTO serves as the nexus between the Chief Technology Officer's strategic vision and objectives, and its practical day-to-day implementation together with SAP's technology, application, infrastructure, operations, and process teams, amongst others. This unit plays a crucial role in aligning priorities and orchestrating technology strategy across SAP, ensuring that our vision and progress aligns with customer expectations, competitive landscape and financial ambitions.

  Reporting directly to the CTO and Extended Executive Board member Philipp Herzig, the Head of the Office of the CTO (m/f/d) plays a critical role at SAP. This position requires a unique blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking, business acumen, program management and leadership skills. The individual in this role will also represent Philipp Herzig in internal and external speaking engagements.

  Key Responsibilities:

  1. Technology strategy & advocacy: Define SAP’s technology strategy, drawing on outside-in analysis, the CTO’s vision and the challenges of the Solution Area CTOs. This involves setting clear objectives, overseeing the technology landscape evolution at SAP, and ensuring that the technology guidance meets our customers’ and SAP’s long-term needs. Ensure prioritization and articulation of the technology strategy in business value to our customers and SAP. Represent the CTO’s technological vision both internally and externally. This involves articulating SAP’s technology strategy to stakeholders, including employees, board members, and external partners, and ensuring alignment across various functions.
     
  2. CTO circle: Host SAP’s CTO Circle, comprised of all Solution Area CTOs, SAP’s central forum for defining and executing SAP’s technology strategy and North Star Architecture. Ensure the alignment of corporate direction and translation to Solution Area CTO’s local roadmaps in a collaborative process, enabling bi-directional feedback and communication. Drive measurable progress toward the North Star Architecture.
     
  3. Architecture & Development Excellence: Build a team of technology professionals, including architects, engineers, project managers, and other specialists. Oversee the development of the technology team’s capabilities, promoting a culture of innovation, assertive execution, and continuous learning. Mentor and develop talent within the Office of the CTO and beyond, to build a strong pipeline of future technology leaders. Develop training content for key technology roles within SAP, e.g. the development architect and expert curriculum. In co-operation with SAP’s Corporate Development / M&A unit, provide technical due diligence and evaluate the technology assets of potential acquisition targets.
     
  4. Open Source Program Office: The SAP Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is the central hub for all Open Source and InnerSource-related topics at SAP. Enable development teams to consume and contribute to open source software in a compliant, secure, and frictionless way. By streamlining processes, guidelines, and tools, enhance developer experience, boost development efficiency, and reduce operational barriers. The OSPO also plays a key role in driving innovation and co-innovation — both within SAP and in collaboration with external communities — by fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and shared development.
     
  5. Stakeholder engagement and teamwork: Engage with other senior leaders, key stakeholders, and be connected to the colleagues executing daily, to ensure there is a clear understanding and support for the technological direction. Build bridges, but also be assertive when it comes to implementation of identified measures.

  What you bring

  This role is instrumental in bridging the gap between high-level strategic planning and actual execution and tangible benefits for SAP’s customers, employees, and SAP itself. It demands visionary leadership, deep technical expertise, and excellent management capabilities. The effectiveness of this role significantly impacts SAP's overall ability to compete on a global scale.

  • Technology leadership: Senior Executive with over 15 years of experience in technology sector, with a proven track record of leading large-scale technology initiatives across architecture, development, and/or project teams.
    
  • Technology & enterprise application expertise: Deep understanding of technology trends, enterprise application landscapes, state-of-the-art enterprise architecture, and development processes. Familiarity with SAP's product portfolio is a strong asset.
    
  • Strategic thinking & business acumen: Ability to define, articulate and implement technology strategy, derived from how technology can drive business value for SAP’s customers and SAP itself.
    
  • Execution: Demonstrated experience in managing complex programs and driving measurable progress against strategic objectives. Strong ability to influence senior leaders and key stakeholders to ensure aligned execution.
    
  • Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and to drive alignment across various functions and complex stakeholder landscapes.
    
  • Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively represent the CTO's vision internally and externally, and to engage the relevant communities inside /outside SAP as well as stakeholders at all levels.
    
  • Talent Development: Proven track record in developing talent and building a pipeline of future technology leaders.

  Meet your team

  The CTO area’s mission is to future proof our customers and SAP. Together we evolve SAP’s technology strategy and North Star architecture, explore the impact of emerging technologies on SAP’s portfolio and leverage the insights for build/buy/partner decisions. We accelerate innovation across SAP’s portfolio, collaborating with engineering teams in SAP, partners, and start-ups across the globe. With Business AI and Sustainability, we accelerate SAP’s long-term growth and market leadership.

  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 are ethical and compliant

  Our leadership credo: Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come. We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.

  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

  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.

  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: 427263 | Work Area: Software-Development Operations | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Virtual - Europe #LI-Hybrid.

• About the company

  639581 SAP SE is a German multinational software corporation based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, that develops enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations.

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