AI-First Cloud Architect for Scalable, Secure Systems

SAP; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP is seeking an Expert Cloud Development Architect to shape SAP’s future architecture strategy aligned with AI first and Suite first directions. You will own multi-tenant cloud-native systems, drive reference architectures, and mentor engineers across a global, cross-functional team.

In this role, you’ll lead architecture reviews, evolve Kubernetes platforms, set API strategy, ensure security-by-design, and collaborate across product, engineering, and compliance to deliver scalable,

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with cloud-native architecture experience.
• Proven delivery of multi-region, highly available systems with reliability and security outcomes.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, influencing at executive and team levels.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant, high-throughput, cloud-native systems.
• Define reference architectures, guardrails, and engineering standards for microservices and data platforms.
• Lead technical design reviews, and mentor senior engineers and tech leads.
• Architect and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms, service meshes, and API gateways.
• Set API strategy and governance (versioning, backward compatibility, observability, security).
• Establish observability-by-design and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).

Skills

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

API design & governance

Security best practices

Cross-functional leadership

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Terraform

Job description

SAP is seeking an Expert Cloud Development Architect to shape SAP’s future architecture strategy aligned with AI first and Suite first directions. You will own multi-tenant cloud-native systems, drive reference architectures, and mentor engineers across a global, cross-functional team.

In this role, you’ll lead architecture reviews, evolve Kubernetes platforms, set API strategy, ensure security-by-design, and collaborate across product, engineering, and compliance to deliver scalable,