Senior Developer (f/m/d) - Supply Chain Optimization

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What you’ll do  
You are an experienced Developer with a passion for applied mathematical optimization?  You want to have a direct and positive impact on the world’s most critical supply chains? You are looking for your next challenge?  

 

Companies need a high degree of flexibility and adaptability to react to supply chain disruption and resilience. SAP Supply chain planning and optimization solutions take this need into account. With SAP's leadership, these intelligent planning solutions are being implemented in leading industrial companies worldwide, revolutionizing business processes to become more efficient, sustainable, resilient, and environmentally friendly. 

 

We are looking for a Senior Developer (f/m/d) in the Supply Chain Optimizer team within the SCM Optimization & Data Science unit. As such you will work in our cross-located product engineering team (Walldorf, Munich, Montreal). 

 

In your role as a Senior Developer, you work closely with a cross-functional and cross-located team ensuring high quality of the delivered supply chain planning procedures. You have the opportunity to:  

• Drive the conception and development of the future supply chain planning solutions.  

• Design, implement, test, and maintain functionality and planning algorithms  

• Use agile methodologies such as test-driven development and pair programming to ensure superior product quality 

• Be a vital and driving contributor to the full development cycle by discovering requirements together with our (internal) customers and partners in industry 

• Identify the appropriate architecture 

 

 

Come join us in reshaping the future of Optimization at SAP 

 

What you bring    

• Background or expertise in operations research and other artificial intelligence methods  

• Interest in supply chain, mathematical optimization and related business processes 

• Preferred field(s) of study: University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or comparable qualifications 

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in software engineering 

• Very good quality, design, development, and delivery skills by working under short development and continuous delivery conditions 

• Ability to rapidly translate modern concepts, business models, and technologies and drive their adoption 

• Motivation and result driven attitude with strong customer focus 

• A creative, analytical and solution-oriented mind-set 

• Excellent teamwork skills and ability to work in and cross product teams  

• Very good communication and networking skills  

• Very good programming and Software Engineering Skills (C++ and another object-oriented languages) and experiences in modern cloud architecture 

• Fluent in verbal and written English and German 

 

Meet your team 
Our team develops modern planning solutions by using optimization and artificial intelligence methods that industrial companies worldwide use to plan and optimize their business.  

The planning procedures are characterized by high scalability concerning the volume to be planned (procedure efficiency), broad functionality and seamless integrations into SAP applications. The solution will natively exploit SAP’s state-of-the-art capabilities in SAP Cloud Platform deployed on Kubernetes.  

 

You can expect a quick onboarding and learning experience as well as a mentorship to ensure, that you get up-to-speed as-soon-as-possible. Within the team we count on self-motivation, continuous learning and helping each other and at the same time each can work on their own pace, which gives them flexibility to balance their professional and personal life. 

 

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