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SAP Technical Lead

Databricks · Mountain View, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteInformation Technology$198k–$273k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes sections: About Databricks (intro), The Opportunity, What You'll Do, What You Bring, Preferred Qualifications, Pay Range Transparency, About Databricks (again), Benefits, etc. We need to use

for section headings: e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. However we must only include sections when posting has real specific content. The headings we can use: maybe "About the role" (intro), "Responsibilities" (What You'll Do), "Requirements" (What You Bring), "Qualifications" (Preferred Qualifications), "Benefits", "Pay". Not include Schedule because none. Also maybe "Skills" not needed. We must not repeat job title as heading. Also not include Job ID. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Also remove repeated "About Databricks" sections? There's two occurrences: first paragraph about Databricks mission, later after Pay Range Transparency there is another "About Databricks" paragraph. We need to preserve substantive info but not duplicate. We can combine? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep the info but not duplicate identical text. The two "About Databricks" sections are similar but not identical: first is about mission and IT organization; second is generic about Databricks being Data and AI company, list of customers, headquarters, etc. Both are substantive. We should keep both but maybe under a single "About Databricks" section? However the headings we are allowed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. There's no "About the company" heading. But we could embed that info in About the role? The instruction says use those headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings? It says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely they expect only those headings. So we need to map content to those headings. About the role could include company overview and role description. Responsibilities = What You'll Do. Requirements = What You Bring (mandatory). Qualifications = Preferred Qualifications. Benefits = Benefits. Pay = Pay Range Transparency. Schedule omitted. We must not include headings with filler. So we will output:

About the role

... combined info from both About Databricks paragraphs and maybe the opportunity description? Actually The Opportunity also substantive; maybe include in About the role? But The Opportunity is more about role specifics. Could be part of About the role. However we have Responsibilities separate. So About the role could contain the introductory paragraphs about Databricks mission, IT organization, finance vision, and The Opportunity description (the foundation etc). We'll need to preserve all substantive info, not omit. So we need to include the content from: first paragraph about Databricks mission, IT org, finance vision; then "We're looking for an SAP Technical Lead..." that's role intro; then The Opportunity paragraph; maybe also the "About Databricks" later paragraph. We'll combine them, ensuring no duplication. Responsibilities: the bullet list under "What You'll Do". We'll convert each line to

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      . Requirements: the bullet list under "What You Bring". We'll convert each line to
    • . Qualifications: the bullet list under "Preferred Qualifications". Convert to
    • . Benefits: the paragraph under "Benefits". We'll keep as

      . Pay: the paragraph under "Pay Range Transparency". We'll keep as

      . We must not include any other headings like "About Databricks" separate. We must strip boilerplate: The repeated "About Databricks" after Pay Range Transparency is not boilerplate; it's substantive. We'll incorporate. Also need to remove lines like "For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here." That's part of Pay Range Transparency; we keep it? It's substantive? It's a link reference; we can keep as text. Also need to remove "Compliance" etc sections (legal). Those are boilerplate; remove. Also remove "Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion", "Compliance". Remove. Also remove duplicated lines: there may be duplicate sentences? Not seeing. Now craft HTML. We need to ensure we don't include markdown fences. Let's write. First, About the role section: We'll combine: - At Databricks, our mission is to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems—and that begins with empowering our own employees with exceptional internal products. The Databricks IT organization is a product-led engineering team building intelligent, AI-powered platforms that simplify how work gets done across the company. For Finance, our vision is to eliminate manual, repetitive work by automating complex business processes, surfacing actionable insights, and orchestrating end-to-end workflows. We are reimagining finance operations so teams spend less time processing transactions, chasing approvals, and resolving exceptions, and more time delivering strategic insights that accelerate the business. - We're looking for an SAP Technical Lead to own the technical architecture and delivery of our SAP platform. In this role, you'll define the technical vision for a clean-core S/4HANA landscape, lead the engineers who build on it, and architect the intelligent, agentic AI layer that sits between SAP and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. You'll set the standards, make the hard build-versus-adopt calls, and ensure everything we ship is secure, performant, and built to scale. - The Opportunity SAP will serve as the foundation for Databricks' core finance processes, including Record-to-Report, Source-to-Pay, and Order-to-Cash. As the SAP Technical Lead, you will own how those processes are engineered—from the clean-core S/4HANA core and its extensions, to the integration fabric that connects SAP to the rest of the enterprise, to the AI and agentic services that make the experience intelligent. Rather than accumulating custom code inside the digital core, you'll champion a modern extensibility model on SAP BTP and the Databricks Lakehouse, so Finance teams get automated, AI-driven workflows on top of a core that stays clean, upgradable, and fast. Your mission is to combine the strength of SAP with the power of Databricks AI to build a technical foundation that lets the business scale. - About Databricks Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram. We'll put that in

      maybe multiple

      tags. It's okay to have multiple paragraphs. Now Responsibilities: list each bullet. We need to capture each bullet from "What You'll Do": - Own the Technical Architecture: Define and own the end-to-end technical architecture for the S/4HANA landscape (greenfield, brownfield, or selective data transition), aligned to clean-core principles, with clear guardrails that keep the digital core standard and upgrade-ready. - Lead the Extensibility Strategy: Define and own the extensibility strategy for SAP, using Databricks-native applications to address business requirements beyond core SAP capabilities. Establish clear architecture and governance standards to ensure extensions are scalable, secure, and aligned with the broader Finance technology strategy. - Drive Enterprise AI Integration: Drive a strong integration with ongoing Enterprise AI transformation within Databricks by bringing AI fluency and hands on AI experience. - Design the Integration Fabric: Architect secure, resilient integration across SAP and non-SAP systems using SAP Integration Suite, event-driven patterns, APIs, OData v4, and change-data feeds into the Lakehouse, with clear contracts, error handling, and observability. - Unify SAP Data in the Lakehouse: Partner with data engineering on the technical patterns for landing SAP data in Databricks—ingestion, CDC, semantic and master-data modeling, lineage, and governance. - Set Engineering Standards: Establish CI/CD, automated testing, and transport/deployment pipelines for BTP artifacts; own code and design reviews; and define the technical standards, security patterns, and best practices the team builds against. - Lead the Team: Mentor developers and architects, lead technical steering, and act as the connective tissue across the SAP ecosystem (BTP, Integration Suite) and the systems around it, partnering closely with functional, product, and partner engineering teams. - Be Accountable for Non-Functionals: Own performance, scalability, security, resilience, and cost across the landscape; report technical status, risks, and roadmaps to stakeholders. Now Requirements: from "What You Bring": - 10+ years in SAP technical roles, with 3+ years as a technical lead or architect, and a proven track record delivering at least one full S/4HANA program (greenfield or conversion) plus BTP-based extension delivery. - Clean-Core Architecture: Deep, hands-on command of clean-core principles—custom-code assessment and remediation, in-app vs. side-by-side extensibility, released APIs and extension points, and the governance that keeps the core clean over time. - SAP BTP & Modern Development: Advanced experience across SAP BTP, ABAP Cloud and the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP), CDS, and CAP, with Fiori/SAPUI5 on the front end. - AI & Agentic Systems: Hands-on experience or strong technical command of agentic automation, LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation—plus clear judgment about where AI belongs in a controlled, auditable ERP process and where it does not. - Integration & APIs: Advanced experience with SAP Integration Suite, API management, event-driven architecture, and REST/OData, integrating hybrid SAP and non-SAP landscapes. - Data Fluency: Solid understanding of modern data platforms, SAP data extraction and modeling, pipelines, and semantic layers, and the practical work of making ERP data usable for analytics and AI. - Governance Rigor: Working knowledge of SAP authorizations, SoD, SOX and audit requirements, and the ability to architect solutions and automation that satisfy them. - Leadership: Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture, present tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders, mentor engineers, and make pragmatic decisions that balance speed against long-term maintainability. Now Qualifications: from "Preferred Qualifications": - Experience building custom applications or automation layers on modern data platforms (such as Databricks) that extend or sit alongside SAP. - A clear point of view on build-versus-adopt tradeoffs across the SAP AI and extension stack (BTP, AI Core, Joule) versus a Databricks-native approach. - Hands-on knowledge of SAP integration surfaces and their limitations, including OData and REST APIs, CDS views, and Datasphere. - Experience running Agile delivery with system integrators and managed service partners, including vendor and SLA accountability. - SAP certification in SAP BTP, S/4HANA, or a relevant technology area, and prior work in a high-growth technology company where ERP had to scale quickly. Now Benefits: paragraph: "At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here." We'll keep as

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