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.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Architect to join our team and represent the CTO office in India. This role will be pivotal in driving the architectural vision, ensuring alignment with our global technology strategy, and fostering collaboration with product and engineering teams. As a key member of the CTO office, you will have the unique opportunity to influence critical technical decisions, establish best practices, and work closely with engineering leads, product teams, and leadership to ensure successful delivery of the critical product innovations and technology initiatives.

What You"ll Do :

• Develop a long-term technology vision and roadmap for the responsible areas, ensure technical architecture supports business goals and drive architectural consistency across product areas.
• Work closely with engineering teams, product management, and other stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of architectural solutions, by providing architectural guidance and support.
• Lead the design of scalable and secure solutions for complex business requirements, ensuring integration with existing systems and alignment with technology standards.
• Establish technology standards (e.g., suite qualities and fundamentals) and ensure adherence to product standards, technology guidelines, architectural best practices, and compliance requirements.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies, tools, and practices across product and engineering teams in alignment with strategic objectives.
• Contribute to SAP’s technology strategy through Cross-Product Architecture (CPA), regularly communicate results and decisions to the architect community and other stakeholders.
• Represent the CTO office in key strategic discussions and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, including partners and customers.
• Provide mentorship to architects and engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

What You Bring :

About the team :

SAP SuccessFactors is a world-leading provider of Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, empowering organizations to deliver exceptional employee experiences and drive business success through people. By offering a comprehensive suite of cloud-based applications, SAP SuccessFactors helps companies manage their entire workforce, from core HR functions like payroll and time management to talent management areas such as recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and learning and development.

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 : [email protected]

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 : 405981

Work Area : Software-Design and Development

Expected Travel : 0 - 10%

Career Status : Professional

Employment Type : Regular Full Time

Additional Locations :

LI-Hybrid.