<p>Requisition ID: 452351</p> <p>Work Area: Software-Development Operations</p> <p>Expected Travel: 0%</p> <p>Career Status: Professional</p> <p>Employment Type: Regular Full Time</p> <p>Career Level: T4PF-3</p> <p>Additional Locations:</p> <p>Original Posting Date: 04/20/26</p> <p>Job Title: Development Architect</p> <p>Location: Palo Alto, CA</p> <p>Work Model: Hybrid work model</p> <p>Purpose and Objective:</p> <p>SAP Labs, LLC seeks a Development Architect at our Palo Alto, CA location to collaborate with design and product management to deliver new features and improve existing ones.</p> <p>Expectations and Tasks:</p> <p>Own the code from ideation to deployment, and through QA and support. Improve existing Product Architecture and coach other Engineers by sharing best practices. Participate in the agile processes to contribute to, understand, and refine scope required to delivery on time and budget. Apply clean code principles, unit tests, performance analysis, automation where valuable, and other quality controls. Conduct technical code reviews for peers by supporting the execution of a standardized code review process.</p> <p>Education and Occupational Experience:</p> <p>Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field of study and seven (7) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation. Employer will accept a 3 or 4 years Bachelor's degree. Alternatively, a Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field of study and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.</p> <p>Qualifications/Skills and Competencies Experience:</p> <p>Experience must involve five (5) years in the following:</p> <ul> <li>SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) and SAP Cloud Platform; </li><li>Software architecture modeling, documentation drafting, and exercising best practices for large-scale enterprise applications; </li><li>XSUAA or SAP Identity Authentication Service (IAS); </li><li>Cloud-native application development and DevOps practices including PaaS offerings, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment techniques within SAP ecosystems; </li><li>System performance optimization, security operations, and compliance requirements in SAP cloud environments; and </li><li>Collaborating cross-functionally within a large-scale enterprise software development environment and translating complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. </li></ul> <p>Experience must involve four (4) years in the following:</p> <ul> <li>Designing and optimizing SAP HANA or other relational databases; </li><li>Designing and implementing integration solutions between SAP products and services; and </li><li>Internet and network protocols for cloud service integration in SAP environments. </li></ul> <p>Travel: N/A.</p> <p>This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the</p>