Senior AI Developer - SAP Labs East Asia Singapore

SAP ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. seeks a Senior AI Developer to lead AI-enabled product initiatives within a global team. You will own backlog and roadmap, collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customers to deliver high-quality AI features across multi-tenant cloud platforms.

You will drive architecture decisions, oversee data pipelines and integration efforts, and thrive in a fast-paced, time-zone diverse environment while continually learning new topics and technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Knowledge in Java/Springboot and microservice-based design/architecture.
• At least 2 years of product management experience.
• Experience with SAP BTP; AI project management experience is a plus.
• Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to influence at all levels.
• Team-oriented and collaborative mindset in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own, create, prioritise and maintain the backlog, while shaping the roadmap with Area Product Owner, engineering, and Product Manager.
• Act as a hands-on technical product owner driving roadmap, priority coordination, product definition, implementation, and delivery lifecycle.
• Explore, understand, and implement latest technologies for cloud platform and data pipelines.
• Make decisions about in-house developments, purchases, or partnerships at product level.
• Handle multi-tenant and multi micro-services environments.
• Ensure product delivery and high-quality specifications per customer requirements to gain competitive advantage.
• Coordinate feedback from customers and stakeholders and integrate into product plans.
• Maintain product up to handover and drive efficiency and process improvements.
• Work with global teams across time zones; adapt quickly to new topics and tasks.

Skills

Java/Springboot

Microservice architecture

Product management

AI/ML project management

Project management principles

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree advantageous

Tools

SAP BTP

Job description

What you'll do

Your tasks include:

• Own, create, prioritise and maintain the backlog, while shaping the roadmap together with Area Product Owner, engineering, and Product Manager
• Act as a hands-on technical product owner who can drive product roadmap, priority coordination, product definition, implementation, and delivery lifecycle.
• Explore, understand, and implement most recent technologies and approaches for cloud platform and data pipelines.
• Makes decisions about in-house developments, purchases, or partnerships on product level.
• Comfortably handle multi-tenant and multiple micro-services environments
• Ensures product delivery:
• Prioritises and describes the product backlog.
• Ensures the delivery of high-quality specifications according to customer and user requirements, to create a competitive advantage for SAP.
• Ensures the delivery of high-quality products under customer requirements, including the completion of expert tests and validation of the planned and implemented scope across the entire product lifecycle (including the product-related non-coded assets).
• Works in close collaboration with other teams, such as release management, production, and governance.
• Coordinates the gathering and integration of feedback from different stakeholders, especially from customers and product management.
• Ensures the maintenance of the product up until a potential handover.
• Contributes to efficiency, effectiveness, and process improvement.
• Ability to work in global teams with different time zones.
• Immerse yourself quickly into new topics, terminology, and development tasks.
• Technologies – SAP BTP, Gen AI Domain, Being part of the Gen AI revolution, knowing about the conversational experience. Having an understanding of SAP Systems like SuccessFactors, S4.

Right attitude:

• Team first attitude. Ensure we win together as a team, closely collaborate with scrum team, architects and stakeholders.
• Be serious about the Agile methodologies and live with them.
• Challenge the status quo. Always unlearn, relearn. Remember, you will be working on cutting-edge technologies every day, you see a revolution.

What you bring

Educational and experience requirements

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field. A Master's degree would be an advantage.
• 7+ years of related professional experience in software development
• Knowledge in Java/Springboot, microservice-based product design, architecture and development
• At least 2 years of experience in product management
• Experience with SAP BTP, having hands-on BTP experience, is a great value add. Demonstrable experience in managing AI or related technology projects.
• Solid understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• A team-oriented and collaborative mindset and the ability to thrive in team environments, contributing positively to shared goals and fostering a culture of cooperation and innovation.

Preferred

• Passion for technology and interest in the domains of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud native services
• Having very good domain expertise of Joule and similar digital assistants will be a plus.
• Knowledge in bot-building platforms
• Experience with Agents, Knowledge Graph, RAG, Large Language Models

Where you'll belong:

As an Senior AI Developer, you will work together with a team of dedicated experts including AI engineers, dev-ops engineers with a single goal of building the best-in-class AI products. You will work against fixed timelines and your success will be measured by the ability to deliver solutions matching the performance of top-notch artificial intelligence systems.