Software Architect

Expert Software Architect - SAP Concur Travel

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. 

 SAP Concur, market leader in integrated travel, expense and invoice management, is looking for Software Developers to help making the product even stronger! Your responsibilities will include designing and developing cloud products using various tools and technologies. You will work in a great environment with many global teams to create value for our customers, delivering high quality and innovative product. You will also help design and ship AI-driven features (LLM-powered assistants, embedding-based search/RAG, and model-backed automation), ensuring they are production-ready, scalable, and compliant with privacy and fairness requirements. 

The Value You Deliver  

• Lead the architecture and design of new features with technical product management, adopting cloud-first concepts and technologies including containerization, serverless architecture, and increased use of NoSQL data stores 

• Execute with an enterprise cloud mindset to deliver on security, compliance, and infrastructure initiatives with engineering program management (FedRAMP, PCI, SOC1, SOC2, and more)  

• Ensure technology decisions align with architecture standards and strategies.  

• Write and implement cross-team engineering proposals with or as part of the Architects group.  

• Design and write services in GO, Kotlin, Java, and deploy using Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and AMI-based pipelines.  

• Own cloud services end to end, designing distributed systems, and architecting using AWS services and best practices such as zero-downtime production deployments, canary releases, frequent deployments, and feature-flag-driven development.  

• Integrate LLM (Large Language Models), MCP (Model Context Protocols) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). 

• Implement prompt engineering, reusable prompt templates, and automated evaluation loops to improve outputs. 

• Deploy and scale model-serving solutions (managed endpoints, containers, model servers) and optimize latency and cost. 

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring of engineering teams.  

Position Requirements    

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technology related field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required.  

• Ability to drive product architecture design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and architecture leadership.  

• Self-driven and highly motivated to deliver top-tier solutions with quality in mind  

• DevOps mentality with an understanding of Continuous Delivery and Observability  

• Ability to write clean and scalable code using Go, Java, Kotlin, NodeJS and other modern programming languages.  

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with technical product managers, architects and technical leads across different product areas.  

• Ability to provide technical leadership and hands on day-to-day solutions to agile teams, preparing the design artifacts and implementation of solutions.  

• Experience with Docker, Helm, Kubernetes, and a broad array of AWS primitives such as EC2, AMIs, EKS, Dynamo, etc.  

• Familiarity with common compliance frameworks that impact software development: FedRAMP, PCI, SOC1, SOC2, and more.  

• Extensive knowledge of architecting cloud solutions, preferably over AWS infrastructure 

• Practical experience integrating at least one LLM or embedding provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or equivalent). 

• Knowledge on AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cline, Claude Code) to accelerate coding velocity, improve code quality, and streamline development workflows. 

Value Competencies:  

• Build strong relationships and a positive work environment together. 

• Grow professionally and deliver excellence with responsibility. 

• Make impact visible and recognized across the organization. 

The ideal candidate will have a passion for delivering optimal solutions and challenging the status quo. To be successful in this role, you will thrive in an agile environment where teams work together toward a common goal.  

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Requisition ID: 456179  | 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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