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We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging - but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.\nCOMPANY DESCRIPTION\nSAP is the global market leader for business software and related services, and SAP National Security Services Inc.® (SAP NS2®) is an independent U.S. subsidiary, offering SAP solutions with specialized levels of security and support to meet the requirements of U.S. national security and critical infrastructure customers.\nMust be a US Citizen; this position requires access to customer data. All internals must have Manager’s approval to transfer.\nPosition Overview\nWe are seeking a highly hands-on Automation Architect to help define and execute our vision for end-to-end automation and increasingly autonomous operations across the SAP Basis R&R. We are looking for a technology professional with a strong software development and engineering background who naturally thinks in terms of workflows, automation, APIs, orchestration, event-driven architectures, and AI-enabled operations.\nThe successful candidate will identify operational processes that are manual, repetitive, or error-prone and transform them into scalable, reusable, automated, and AI-enabled solutions.\nThe individual will work closely with SAP operations, development, infrastructure and security to turn ideas into production-ready solutions.\nThe overall objective is to move SAP operations from Manual to Scripted to Automated to AI-Assisted to Autonomous\nKey Responsibilities:\nDrive the SAP NS2’s Zero Ops Vision\nHelp define and execute the technical roadmap for Zero Ops and autonomous operations across SAP NS2.\nIdentify opportunities to eliminate, simplify, automate, or make autonomous existing operational processes.\nDevelop an automation opportunity pipeline based on operational pain points, business value, complexity, risk, and feasibility.\nChallenge traditional operational approaches and identify opportunities to improve reliability, speed, and efficiency through technology.\nEstablish reusable automation patterns rather than developing isolated scripts or point solutions.\nWork with SAP and enterprise operations teams to understand current processes and identify opportunities for transformation.\nIdentify and Design End-to-End Automation Workflows\nAnalyze operational processes from trigger to completion, rather than automating individual tasks in isolation.\nDesign workflows that can detect an event, collect relevant information, analyze the situation, determine an action, execute the action, and validate the outcome.\nTranslate operational requirements into technical workflows, APIs, automation services, and reusable components.\nIdentify opportunities to introduce event-driven automation and closed-loop remediation.\nDefine appropriate human-in-the-loop, approval, exception-handling, rollback, and validation mechanisms.\nDevelop prototypes and proofs of concept to rapidly demonstrate automation opportunities.\nThe candidate should naturally think Event, Detect, Gather Data, Diagnose, Decide, Approve, Execute, Validate, Document, Learn\nSoftware Development & Engineering\nDesign and develop production-quality automation services and applications.\nBuild APIs, microservices, workflow components, integrations, and automation frameworks.\nUse strong software engineering practices including Git, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and documentation.\nDevelop reusable and maintainable automation components rather than one-off scripts.\nApply engineering principles such as modularity, idempotency, error handling, retries, rollback, testing, and observability.\nWork closely with development teams to integrate automation capabilities into enterprise platforms.\nStrong software development experience is a core requirement for this role.\nAutomation Engineering\nDesign and implement automation using Ansible, Python, APIs, orchestration platforms, and event-driven technologies.\nBuild reusable Ansible playbooks, roles, modules, and automation frameworks.\nIntegrate automation with SAP, cloud platforms, monitoring systems, ITSM platforms, and enterprise APIs.\nAutomate operational workflows across SAP, operating systems, infrastructure, and supporting services.\nEstablish automation standards, reusable patterns, and best practices.\nBuild mechanisms for automated validation and safe remediation.\nThe expectation is to treat automation as software engineering, not simply scripting.\nAI & Agentic Automation\nIdentify practical opportunities to use AI and generative AI to improve SAP operations.\nDevelop AI-assisted capabilities for incident analysis, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, knowledge retrieval, and remediation recommendations.\nExplore and develop agentic workflows where AI can interact with enterprise tools and approved automation capabilities.\nIntegrate AI agents with APIs, workflow engines, monitoring platforms, and automation frameworks.\nEstablish appropriate guardrails, permissions, approval mechanisms, auditability, and human oversight.\nEvaluate AI solutions based on accuracy, reliability, security, operational value, and scalability.\nStay current with emerging AI and agentic technologies and identify opportunities to apply them to enterprise operations.\nThe candidate does not need to be an AI researcher. The expectation is that they can apply AI to real operational problems.\nSAP Operations\nDevelop a strong understanding of RISE with SAP architecture, operating models, and operational processes.\nWork closely with SAP Basis and SAP application teams to understand operational challenges and identify automation opportunities.\nDevelop automation around SAP system health, monitoring, troubleshooting, configuration, operational checks, and remediation.\nUnderstand SAP HANA and relevant SAP infrastructure and operating-system dependencies.\nWork with SAP APIs, interfaces, monitoring mechanisms, and integration capabilities.\nTranslate SAP operational requirements into automation and software solutions.\nDeep SAP Basis expertise is not mandatory if the candidate demonstrates strong engineering, automation, and problem-solving capabilities and can work effectively with SAP specialists.\nCollaboration with Cloud Architecture\nThe organization has a dedicated Cloud Architecture team. This role will partner with and leverage that team rather than replace the enterprise Cloud Architect role.\nThe candidate will:\nDevelop high-level solution concepts and technical requirements for automation solutions.\nDefine application, integration, data, security, scalability, and operational requirements.\nWork with Cloud Architects to translate automation concepts into enterprise-approved cloud architectures.\nCollaborate on cloud service selection, deployment patterns, networking, IAM, security, observability, and scalability.\nEnsure solutions align with enterprise cloud standards and architecture principles.\nCommunicate effectively with Cloud Architects and understand architectural trade-offs.\nBring new automation and AI ideas to the Cloud Architecture team for assessment and implementation.\nThe candidate should have sufficient cloud knowledge to think architecturally and participate in cloud design discussions, but does not need to own enterprise cloud architecture.\nInnovation & Continuous Improvement\nContinuously explore emerging automation, AI, and engineering technologies.\nIdentify opportunities to improve existing operational workflows.\nBuild prototypes and demonstrate new ideas quickly.\nEstablish a culture of experimentation followed by disciplined productionization.\nMeasure the impact of automation and continuously optimize solutions.\nShare reusable patterns, lessons learned, and technical innovations across engineering and operations teams.\nRequired Qualifications\nSoftware Development\nStrong professional experience in software development or software engineering.\nStrong proficiency in Python or a comparable modern programming language.\nExperience developing APIs, services, integrations, or automation platforms.\nStrong understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns.\nExperience with Git, CI/CD, testing, and production software development.\nAbility to design maintainable, scalable, and reusable software solutions.\nAutomation\nStrong hands-on experience with Ansible.\nExperience with Python-based automation and scripting.\nStrong knowledge of REST APIs and enterprise integrations.\nExperience designing workflows and orchestration.\nUnderstanding of event-driven automation.\nExperience with infrastructure or configuration automation.\nUnderstanding of idempotency, error handling, retries, rollback, and validation.\nSAP Knowledge\nStrong understanding of SAP technical operations and architecture.\nExperience with RISE with SAP, SAP Basis, SAP HANA, or SAP infrastructure.\nUnderstanding of SAP monitoring, troubleshooting, integrations, and operational processes.\nExperience working with SAP technical teams in an enterprise environment.\nCloud\nWorking knowledge of at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.\nUnderstanding of cloud-native architecture concepts.\nFamiliarity with APIs, IAM, networking, containers/Kubernetes, event services, observability, and cloud security.\nAbility to work effectively with enterprise Cloud Architecture teams.\nAI / Generative AI\nPractical experience with generative AI and/or LLM-based applications.\nUnderstanding of AI agents, tool calling, RAG, or AI-enabled workflows.\nExperience integrating AI with APIs or enterprise applications is highly desirable.\nUnderstanding of AI security, governance, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop concepts.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:\nRISE with SAP\nSAP HANA\nSAP Basis\nAnsible Automation Platform\nPython\nREST/API development\nEvent-driven architecture\nWorkflow orchestration\nKubernetes\nInfrastructure-as-Code\nCI/CD\nDevOps / Platform Engineering\nSRE / observability\nITSM automation\nGenerative AI\nAgentic AI\nRAG\nEnterprise integration\nCloud-native application development\nIdeal Candidate Profile\nThe ideal candidate is a developer and automation engineer at heart who has evolved into an architect-level thinker. They are someone who understands the operational activity is performed manually every week and understands why it is manual; what triggers the activity; what information is required; what decisions are being made; which APIs or systems contain the required information; can the decision be codified; can Ansible or another automation technology execute the action; can AI assist with diagnosis or decision-making; how can the workflow validate the result; what happens when something goes wrong; can this be turnedinto a reusable capability; workflow and automation mindsetis more important than any individual technology listed in this job description.\nKey Competencies\nSoftware Engineering Mindset\nAutomation & Workflow Thinking\nSAP Technical Understanding\nAI & Agentic Automation\nAPI & Integration Engineering\nCloud-Native Understanding\nSolution Architecture\nProblem Solving\nInnovation & Continuous Improvement\nEnterprise Collaboration\nSecurity & Reliability Mindset\nExperience\n10+ 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