Development Manager

**We help the world run better**

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

SAP Labs Singapore is the 20th engineering hub in the SAP Labs Network and is the newest innovation hub at SAP that drives product leadership, fosters the best talent, and aims to boost ecosystem and community engagement with a variety of initiatives. SAP Labs Singapore has the ambition to expand significantly and become the Embedded Artificial Hub for SAP, leveraging on core competencies in the current teams.

**What you'll do**

As a Development Manager for Artificial Intelligence team, you will lead teams to build AI assets (services, components, content). You will create compelling product visions and lead teams to execute on this vision. As a leader you will represent the work of your teams towards internal and external stakeholders. You will work together with the development leads, data scientists, product owners, product managers and development operations colleagues in your team and other teams to create value for our customers from the first idea to a successful market entry, adoption and beyond.
- Product Delivery - Define product plans and execute against a committed delivery timeline; Manage the day-to-day activities of the development team
- Product Ownership - Ownership of the complete software development lifecycle, designing, leading implementation, and testing of new features, ensure adoption by stakeholders within a fast-paced, agile environment
- Product Support - Manage customer expectations via product support ensuring high standards in incident processing, quality of interactions and fixes that are delivered
- Development Expertise - Provide functional, architectural and data science guidance to the team
- Technical Hands-On - Maintain a hands-on approach to deliver highly available and scalable AI Assets
- People Management - Management of people including active engagement, staffing, talent management, career aspirations, mentoring and enhancing skills of team members to maintain a best-in-class Artificial Intelligence development team
- Location Leadership - Actively contribute and drive various leadership initiatives for the location e.g. cross unit collaboration, training plan execution, general administration, hiring & internship management, budget planning and adherence etc.

**What you bring**
- Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Operations Research, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in software product development, ideally with the focus on Artificial Intelligence
- Have a proven track record of building a culture of design excellence that develop high-impact products
- Experience implementing well-run, agile processes in multiple functions: Development, QA, Release
- Ability to communicate vision and strategy effectively to the team, partners, and clients
- Experience managing dependencies on other teams within a larger organization
- Technical knowledge required to command the respect of high-octane engineering team
- Strong advocate for Agile development processes
- Ability to deliver with highest quality under extreme pressure, while juggling multiple tasks and in complex environments
- Strong organizational skills
- Be comfortable with leading change
- Intellectually rigorous and creative problem-solving ability
- Required technology exposure & experience:

- SaaS delivery based on microservices architecture
- Container technologies like docker/ Kubernetes
- Cloud integration and deployment on AWS, Google or Azure
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, C++, C#,
- Theoretical exposure to Machine Learning & Deep Learning based approaches. Hands-on exposure is nice to have

**Meet your team**

Artificial Intelligence team as part of SAP Labs Singapore has experienced professionals taking on challenges posed by the SAP customers. Based in Singapore, you will have the opportunity to work on breakthrough projects addressing real-world problems, challenging norms with some of the SAP’s key customers. As part of the global product engineering team, you will participate in rich and engaging conversations with experts around the globe.
SAP Labs Singapore provides an open, modern working environment and the opportunity to become part of the global SAP engineering community.

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