**Bring out your best** SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best. The development center of SAP in Bulgaria is technology-focused and plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1500 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions towards lifecycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products. For its 24-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria. **What youll do** Our team delivers a set of services that comprise the BTP Unified Customer Landscape an innovative solution at the core of SAPs Intelligent Enterprise, providing automated integration for SAP applications, BTP runtimes, partner solutions and non-SAP applications, so they can work seamlessly together. We build API-first backbone services that collect metadata about the customer landscape and application integrations from various providers, expose this metadata via APIs and UIs for landscape discovery and a smart framework for applications to exchange security configurations automatically. The Development Architect will be responsible for defining and driving the architecture for a set of microservices developed in one of our teams towards a scalable, high-performance, secure and open for extensibility product in collaboration with the team, area architects, central architects and stakeholders. Theideal candidatewill have technical knowledge on the latest cloud-native technologies and a good understandingof how the business software solutions look today.We are looking for a Development Architect to join us and help build world class full-stack services for the Cloud. Responsibilities: + Design robust, scalable, and performant microservice-based software architectures leveraging cloud-native best practices, patterns and components + Collaborate and align with the team and other area architects on design proposals, integration points / interfaces + Create and review architectural designs, blueprints and guidelines + Join development tasks in complex scenarios and products/environments providing technical expertise and guidance + Regularly evaluate the services we develop for performance and cost optimizations + Identify and suggest learning opportunities, proactively and continuously share knowledge with peers and the team + Support the product team and development teams in ensuring standards compliance + Engage in architecture communities and cross product architecture groups + Work with cutting-edge tech stack to develop state-of-the-art solutions, embracing technologies provided by cloud hyperscalers, open-source community, and SAP **What you bring** + University education in computer science, software engineering or similar + 5 years of professional experience + Knowledge in building robust and performant microservices architectures + Strong knowledge in at least one of: Go, C/C , Java or Node.js + Mastery of Linux + Experience with computer networks (HTTP, TCP and other protocols) + Knowledge in at least one public cloud platform: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry + Curiosity and willingness to quickly learn new technologies, concepts and tools + Good interpersonal skills and fluency in English: collaboration in an international environment will be a regular part of your job. You are familiar with: + Cloud computing, distributed systems, container technology e.g. Docker + Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators, Istio, Service mesh + Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud + Open Source software, projects and communities **Meet the team** You will have the opportunity to work with the trendiest cloud-native technologies that drive the next wave of enterprise grade applications. We develop core platform backend services based on micro-services architecture and orchestrated via Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io/) on the leading cloud environments. **\#SAPBTPEXCareers#SAPBulgariaLabsCareers** **Bring out your best** SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best. **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: 395675 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: \#LI-Hybrid.