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Summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Java to join and strengthen the Data Foundation Services team in Business Data Cloud. This role focuses on building robust and scalable integration mechanisms between SAP’s business applications and the unified data fabric, enabling seamless data movement and real-time interoperability across systems. As part of this responsibility, the role also contributes to the development of customer observability features—capturing service-level interactions and behavioral data points across multiple applications to deliver actionable insights, ensure data quality and improve user experience through real-time analytics and monitoring.

You will take an ownership of designing and building core integration frameworks that enable real-time, event-driven data flows between distributed SAP systems. As a senior contributor, you will work closely with architects to drive end-to-end development of services and pipelines supporting distributed data processing, data transformations and intelligent automation. This is an unique opportunity to contribute to SAP’s evolving data platform initiatives with hands-on involvement in Java, Python, Kafka, DevOps, Real-Time Analytics, Intelligent Monitoring, BTP and Hyperscaler ecosystems.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop Micro services using Java, RESTful APIs and messaging frameworks such as Apache Kafka.
• Design and Develop UI based on SAP UI5/Fiori is a plus
• Design and Develop  Observability Framework for Customer Insights  
• Build and maintain scalable data processing and ETL pipelines that support real-time and batch data flows.
• Experience with Databricks is an advantage.  
• Accelerate the App2App integration roadmap by identifying reusable patterns, driving platform automation and establishing best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable secure, reliable and performant communication across SAP applications.
• Build and maintain distributed data processing pipelines, supporting large-scale data ingestion, transformation and routing.
• Work closely with DevOps to define and improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring and deployment strategies using modern GitOps practices.
• Guide  cloud-native secure deployment of services on SAP BTP and major Hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Collaborate with SAP’s broader Data Platform efforts including Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud and BDC runtime architecture.

• Ensure adherence to best practices in microservices architecture, including service discovery, load balancing, and fault tolerance.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve the development process.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in backend development using Java, with strong object-oriented design and integration patterns.
• Hands-on experience building ETL pipelines and working with large-scale data processing frameworks.
• Exposure to Log Aggregator Tools like Splunk, ELK , etc. 
• Experience or experimentation with tools such as Databricks, Apache Spark or other cloud-native data platforms is highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Datasphere, SAP Analytics Cloud or HANA is highly desirable.
• Design CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), Kubernetes and DevOps best practices.
• Working knowledge of Hyperscaler environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Passionate about clean code, automated testing, performance tuning and continuous improvement.

Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with global teams across time zones.