AI Platform Engineering Team Lead

Location:

Sofia (1407) – Bulgaria

Salary:

Competitive

Type:

Permanent

Main Industry:

Search Information Technology Jobs

Other Industries & Skills:

Finance, Banking & Insurance Legal

Advertiser:

SAP

Job ID:

132615875

Posted On:

10 January 2026

We help the world run better

At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we’ll bring out the best in you. 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. 

 

What you’ll build:

We are looking for an AI platform engineering team lead to shape and scale the delivery by our growing AI Infrastructure and Operations team. In this role you will own the delivery backlog implementing the vision for the topic. You will collaborate closely with technical platform leadership and stakeholders to shape the strategic direction for AI Infrastructure and Operations, and its service catalog targeted at enabling scalable and responsible AI solutions developed and deployed across a growing number of platforms (Azure Databricks, Azure ML, SAP BTP Kyma).

You will be instrumental in growing the team, as well as shaping and scaling the team’s delivery process and support function(s) to ensure the uninterrupted operation of business-critical services. To ensure future-proof and scalable infrastructure for the business, you will advocate for good engineering practices, security, automation, and observability, while mindful of the inherent tradeoffs in delivering business outcomes.

This is a multifaceted expert role in which the successful candidate will benefit from a solid technical background as much as from their experience building, scaling, leading, and advocating for engineering teams.

Key responsibilities:

-Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and end users to capture needs, value drivers, and buy-in
-Elaborate, maintain, and communicate the AI Infrastructure and Operations backlog acting in alignment with technical platform leadership, translating requirements into work items based on clear definitions of ready/done (in JIRA)
-Define, maintain, and communicate the AI Infrastructure and Operations service catalog
-Work closely with your team to define technical strategy and component architectures, and translate those to business-level objectives for the overarching platform offering(s)
-Own AI Infrastructure and Operations official support channel(s) and SLAs, maintaining a healthy balance between operations and development
-Serve as the product owner for your agile team, driving clarity and setting priorities, and acting to remove roadblocks and resolve dependencies in partnership with your agile coach
-Define and track success metrics, leveraging user feedback and data to identify process gaps and inefficiencies, and work proactively on continuous improvement
-Take active part in the recruitment and selection process for your agile team
-Keep abreast of developments in infrastructure as code, security, observability, and platform operations
 

What you bring:

-Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field
-Skilled in agile product delivery (Scrum/SAFE) with hands-on Jira expertise and proven experience of cross-functional collaboration
-Excellent communication-, stakeholder-management-, and prioritization skills
-Proven experience managing and scaling technical support functions (L1/L2/L3)
-Experience defining KPIs, analyzing user feedback, and iterating products and services responsibly with awareness of safety and compliance
-Strong understanding of networking, workload isolation, container orchestration, cybersecurity, observability
-Proven experience in infrastructure as code, preferably delivering cloud-based services (Terraform, MS Azure, Jenkins preferred)
-Good command of high-level programming and scripting languages (Python, Bash preferred)
 

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

SAP’s 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 world.

SAP is committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provides 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: Careerssap.

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SAP Employee Referral Program
, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity,  gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local legal requirements.
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.

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Requisition ID: 439568  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 – 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

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