**We help the world run better** Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now! The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1400 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and has recently welcomed new teams focusing on business applications. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria. **PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES** Sustainability lies at the heart of SAPs vision. It covers renewable fuel sources, reducing carbon emissions, protecting environments, and keeping the delicate ecosystems of our planet in balance while driving innovation and not compromising our way of life. Circular Economy is a way to design, make, and use resources within planetary boundaries by shifting to a system that designs out waste and pollution. Circular Economy keeps the value of products and materials as long as possible and regenerates natural systems. Within Circular Economy, products are designed to become resources for the future, bringing major economic benefits.As a market leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SAPs customers have large and diverse spectrum of sustainability needs - reporting of different types of wastes (product packaging, batteries, consumer devices) in conjunction with countries legislations, country specific eco-fees calculations, calculations of plastic and other waste-reducing taxes (e.g. EU plastic tax), redesign of products to reduce waste, sourcing of recycle materials, re-engineering of production and supply chain processes to reduce carbon footprint. The Circular Economy business applications aim to provide tailored solutions to each sustainability needs by leveraging the power of SAP HANA database and cloud delivery model. You may check this LinkedIn blog (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6810661868504461312?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs\_feedUpdate%3A%28*%2Curn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A6810661868504461312%29) for more info. To meet our customers requirements, we are setting up a new team to develop the Circular Economy solution as business application running on top of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). For this team we are looking for a talented, creative, team-oriented and highly motivated Development Architect. The team in Sofia is a strong contributor to the development of the SAP Sustainability business portfolio. We value professional skills as much as teamwork, trust, collaboration and creativity. If you are a **Development Architect** who + is passionate about the Earths green agenda and wants to make impact + is inspired by cloud technologies and building business applications with them + is enthusiastic to develop cloud based business applications with SAP BTP + is obsessed by Agile Software Engineering practices + has excellence programming skills and expertise with Java and Java-related technologiesthen this is the right job for you! **EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS** + Drive architecture and design concept definition + Research and evaluate new technologies and frameworks in the context of the business application domain. Do Prove-of-Concept (PoC) + Support the team with various software development tasks (design, implementation, testing, operation) focusing on high quality and Agile Software Engineering (ASE) practices + Work in a cross-functional team of talented and motivated colleagues + Mentor, encourage, and motivate the team members **EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES** + University degree in Computer Science + Strong experience with object-oriented programming (Java). Experience with Spring technologies is an advantage + Strong experience with RDBMS and SQL. SAP HANA experience is an advantage + Experience with SAP BTP (CAP with Java, FioriElements, SAPUI5) is an advantage + Experience with data structures and algorithms + Experience with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML/CSS + Problem-solving, analytical and architectural skills + Creative thinking, willingness and ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies + Excellent team player, with strong communication skills, passionate about his/her work, self-motivated and driven + Fluency in English **WORK EXPERIENCE** + At least 6 years of relevant experience **We build breakthroughs together** SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together. **We win with inclusion** SAPs culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone regardless of background feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy (https://one.int.sap/me@sap/jobs\_at\_sap#17498858-1050-415e-8d82-21f91655666b\_96fc) . Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training. **EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:** Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor. Requisition ID: 388705 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.