The Opportunity

This role provides an opportunity to shape enterprise AI, innovation and emerging technology strategy while building and leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate will play a key role in identifying new market opportunities, incubating innovative solutions, driving capability development, and positioning the organisation at the forefront of AI-driven transformation.

Your Key Responsibilities

Innovation leadership

- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Innovative and AI solutions on SAP BTP with possible collaboration with other cloud platforms.

- Define and drive innovation roadmaps aligned with strategic business priorities.

- Build reusable assets, accelerators, frameworks and intellectual property that enhance delivery effectiveness.

- Identify emerging technology trends and assess their applicability for enterprise adoption.

- Collaborate with business, functional, and technical teams to identify and deliver AI-driven transformation opportunities.

Capability building

- Develop and grow capabilities across AI, cloud, automation and digital engineering domains.

- Coach and mentor managers, architects and consultants to build future leadership pipelines.

- Drive recruitment, talent development and succession planning activities.

Growth & thought leadership

- Contribute to proposals, solution pursuits, strategic initiatives and market-facing thought leadership.

- Prepare for and drive stakeholder discussions, architecture reviews, solution estimations, and client presentations.

- Represent the organisation at internal and external forums, workshops and technology events.

Skills and attributes for success

- Bachelors or Master s degree in computer science, AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related discipline.

- 13-15 years of overall technology experience with at least 4-6 years in SAP BTP and cloud solution delivery, 3-4 years in generative AI solution delivery and 10 years of team management experience.





- Strong hands-on understanding of SAP BTP, SAP Business AI services and cloud technologies.

- Experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale intelligent automation solutions using SAP and non-SAP stacks.

- Proficiency in Python, Java, JavaScript and familiarity with modern AI frameworks and cloud-native architectures.

- Strong understanding of solution architecture, integration patterns, security, governance, and DevOps practices.

- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

- Strong interest in leading and managing innovation initiatives and exploring ways to collaborate with other technologies.

- Proven experience leading geographically distributed multidisciplinary teams.

- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and executive decision makers.

- Strong programme and portfolio management experience.

- Experience balancing innovation, governance, delivery excellence and commercial objectives.

- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous and rapid-changing environments.

- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills.

Ideally, you ll also have

- Experience with SAP BTP, Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Architectures, and Knowledge Graphs.

- Experience with AI tooling such as Cursor / Replit and other enterprise productivity software such as SharePoint, Power Platform, etc.

- Experience establishing innovation programmes, AI centres of excellence or emerging technology practices.

- Experience scaling engineering or AI teams from early-stage capability through enterprise adoption.

- Exposure to product management, venture incubation or innovation lab environments.

- Experience developing reusable AI, cloud or automation assets that achieved enterprise-wide adoption.

- Public speaking, conference presentations or thought leadership publications.

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