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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.
Summary:
As an Expert Cloud Development Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping SAP’s future architecture strategy in alignment with our AI first and Suite first product direction. Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture (US), you will serve as a deep technical expert, driving innovation across SAP’s portfolio by designing and enabling next-generation, cloud-native, and AI-integrated architectures. You will work in a global, cross-functional setup and engage with strategic architecture topics that influence platform evolution, product strategy, and customer outcomes. With your technical depth and hands-on attitude, you will help ensure our solutions are scalable, intelligent, secure, and future-ready.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant, high-throughput, low-latency cloud-native systems.
- Define reference architectures, guardrails, and engineering standards for microservices and data platforms.
- Lead technical design reviews, and mentor senior engineers and tech leads.
- Architect and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms, service meshes, and API gateways.
- Set API strategy and governance (versioning, backward compatibility, observability, security).
- Select and govern data stores, design for scalability, availability, and data consistency.
- Establish observability-by-design (metrics, logs, traces) and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
- Lead performance engineering, capacity planning, chaos testing, and cost optimization (FinOps).
- Security-by-design: threat modeling, zero trust, mTLS, secure SDLC.
- Evaluate run proofs-of-concept, and guide roadmap/technology strategy.
- Partner across org to meet product strategies, goals and compliance requirements.
- Technical leadership: setting standards/guardrails, conducting ADRs/RFCs, mentoring and cross-org influence.
Core Technologies:
- Cloud: deep expertise in one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) across compute, networking, storage, IAM; multi-AZ/region patterns.
- Containers & orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS); autoscaling.
- Service connectivity: service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Envoy; API gateways/ingress.
- APIs: REST and gRPC; OpenAPI/Protobuf; versioning and backward compatibility.
- Data stores: PostgreSQL/MySQL; NoSQL (DynamoDB/CosmosDB/Cassandra/MongoDB); caching (Redis); search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch); object storage (S3/GCS/Azure Blob).
- Streaming & messaging: Kafka/Pulsar/Kinesis/Pub/Sub; queues (SQS/RabbitMQ).
- Observability stack: OpenTelemetry; Prometheus/Grafana; Jaeger/Zipkin/Tempo; centralized logging (ELK/OpenSearch).
- CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins; GitOps (Argo CD/Flux); Terraform/Pulumi; Packer; feature flags; blue/green and canary deploys.
- Languages: proficiency in one or more of Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot/Quarkus), or C#/.NET; scripting with Python/Node.js as needed; testing including contract tests.
- Having knowledge of SAP technologies is considered an added benefit.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years architecting & building cloud-native distributed systems at scale.
- Production experience on one or more major clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes.
- Proven delivery of multi-region, highly available systems with clear reliability and security outcomes.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems (consistency, partitioning, failure modes, resiliency patterns).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, influencing at executive and team levels.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
The CTO area’s mission is to future proof our customers and SAP. Together we evolve SAP’s technology strategy and North Star architecture, explore the impact of emerging technologies on SAP’s portfolio and leverage the insights for build/buy/partner decisions. We accelerate innovation across SAP’s portfolio, collaborating with engineering teams in SAP, partners, and start-ups across the globe. With Business AI and Sustainability, we accelerate SAP’s long-term growth and market leadership.
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: 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. 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, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 198000 - 420000 (USD). The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.
AI Usage in the Recruitment Process
For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process. Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.
Requisition ID: 447785 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid
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.
Summary:
As an Expert Cloud Development Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping SAP’s future architecture strategy in alignment with our AI first and Suite first product direction. Reporting directly to the Head of Architecture (US), you will serve as a deep technical expert, driving innovation across SAP’s portfolio by designing and enabling next-generation, cloud-native, and AI-integrated architectures. You will work in a global, cross-functional setup and engage with strategic architecture topics that influence platform evolution, product strategy, and customer outcomes. With your technical depth and hands-on attitude, you will help ensure our solutions are scalable, intelligent, secure, and future-ready.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end architecture for multi-tenant, high-throughput, low-latency cloud-native systems.
- Define reference architectures, guardrails, and engineering standards for microservices and data platforms.
- Lead technical design reviews, and mentor senior engineers and tech leads.
- Architect and evolve Kubernetes-based platforms, service meshes, and API gateways.
- Set API strategy and governance (versioning, backward compatibility, observability, security).
- Select and govern data stores, design for scalability, availability, and data consistency.
- Establish observability-by-design (metrics, logs, traces) and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
- Lead performance engineering, capacity planning, chaos testing, and cost optimization (FinOps).
- Security-by-design: threat modeling, zero trust, mTLS, secure SDLC.
- Evaluate run proofs-of-concept, and guide roadmap/technology strategy.
- Partner across org to meet product strategies, goals and compliance requirements.
- Technical leadership: setting standards/guardrails, conducting ADRs/RFCs, mentoring and cross-org influence.
Core Technologies:
- Cloud: deep expertise in one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) across compute, networking, storage, IAM; multi-AZ/region patterns.
- Containers & orchestration: Docker; Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS); autoscaling.
- Service connectivity: service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Envoy; API gateways/ingress.
- APIs: REST and gRPC; OpenAPI/Protobuf; versioning and backward compatibility.
- Data stores: PostgreSQL/MySQL; NoSQL (DynamoDB/CosmosDB/Cassandra/MongoDB); caching (Redis); search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch); object storage (S3/GCS/Azure Blob).
- Streaming & messaging: Kafka/Pulsar/Kinesis/Pub/Sub; queues (SQS/RabbitMQ).
- Observability stack: OpenTelemetry; Prometheus/Grafana; Jaeger/Zipkin/Tempo; centralized logging (ELK/OpenSearch).
- CI/CD & IaC: GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins; GitOps (Argo CD/Flux); Terraform/Pulumi; Packer; feature flags; blue/green and canary deploys.
- Languages: proficiency in one or more of Go, Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot/Quarkus), or C#/.NET; scripting with Python/Node.js as needed; testing including contract tests.
- Having knowledge of SAP technologies is considered an added benefit.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 12+ years in software engineering with 5+ years architecting & building cloud-native distributed systems at scale.
- Production experience on one or more major clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure) and Kubernetes.
- Proven delivery of multi-region, highly available systems with clear reliability and security outcomes.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems (consistency, partitioning, failure modes, resiliency patterns).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, influencing at executive and team levels.
ABOUT THE TEAM:
The CTO area’s mission is to future proof our customers and SAP. Together we evolve SAP’s technology strategy and North Star architecture, explore the impact of emerging technologies on SAP’s portfolio and leverage the insights for build/buy/partner decisions. We accelerate innovation across SAP’s portfolio, collaborating with engineering teams in SAP, partners, and start-ups across the globe. With Business AI and Sustainability, we accelerate SAP’s long-term growth and market leadership.
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: 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. 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, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP’s commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted annual combined range for this position is 198000 - 420000 (USD). The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits.
AI Usage in the Recruitment Process
For information on the responsible use of AI in our recruitment process, please refer to our Guidelines for Ethical Usage of AI in the Recruiting Process. Please note that any violation of these guidelines may result in disqualification from the hiring process.
Requisition ID: 447785 | 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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Cloud AI Architect
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees are generally accepted as equivalent to U.S. four-year degrees, but document the equivalency with a formal credential evaluation before applying. Cloud AI Architect roles typically require a degree in computer science, machine learning, or software engineering to satisfy DOL requirements.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search the DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to identify employers who have filed LCAs for cloud architecture or AI roles. Companies with recent LCA filings for similar titles already understand E-3 sponsorship mechanics, shortening your time from offer to approval.
Frame your AI specialization during employer conversations
Many hiring managers conflate Cloud AI Architect with general software engineering roles. Clarify upfront that your role qualifies as a specialty occupation under E-3 rules, requires no lottery, and involves minimal employer cost compared to H-1B filings, which removes their most common sponsorship objection.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to manage your LCA and visa paperwork
The LCA must be certified by the DOL before your consulate appointment, and errors in the prevailing wage attestation can delay or invalidate your application. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service handles the entire process from LCA submission through consulate preparation, reducing the risk of procedural mistakes.
Negotiate your start date around consulate appointment availability
E-3 consulate appointments in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth have variable wait times. Build at least four to six weeks of buffer into your offer negotiation to account for appointment availability and passport return, so your start date is achievable without requiring premium processing.
Clarify your E-3 status when switching cloud platforms or project scope
If your role shifts from one cloud environment to another or your job duties materially change after your visa is issued, USCIS may consider this a material change requiring a new LCA filing. Confirm with your employer's HR team before accepting significant role changes mid-visa period.
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Find Cloud AI Architect JobsCloud AI Architect E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Cloud AI Architect jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the recommended way to search for Cloud AI Architect roles with confirmed E-3 sponsorship. Standard job boards don't filter by visa type, so you can't tell which employers are genuinely open to sponsorship. Migrate Mate surfaces roles where employers have actively filed E-3 or LCA documentation, saving you the time of filtering unsuitable postings manually.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Cloud AI Architect role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
Yes. Cloud AI Architect roles require at minimum a bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a related engineering field, which satisfies the DOL specialty occupation definition. The role must also be one where the theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge is a standard industry requirement, which cloud architecture and AI design roles consistently meet.
How does the E-3 visa compare to the H-1B for Cloud AI Architects?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been fully used, so there's no lottery and no wait for a cap slot. H-1B requires entering a random lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate in recent fiscal years. For Australian Cloud AI Architects, the E-3 is faster to obtain, cheaper for employers to file, and renewable indefinitely, making it the practical first-choice visa for this role.
Can I change employers or cloud platforms while on an E-3 visa?
You can change employers on E-3 status, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll need a new visa stamp if you travel internationally after the change. Material changes to your job duties, such as moving from a defined Cloud AI Architect role to a general DevOps position, may require a new LCA filing even without changing employers. USCIS treats material changes as requiring updated documentation.
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