Senior Developer - Pipeline as a Service

<p><span> </span><b>We help the world run better </b></p> <p>At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. 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.</p> <p>Are you a Senior Software Engineer with a passion for delivering pipelines and automation software that our development teams love to use?</p> <p> </p> <p><b>What you’ll do</b></p> <p>You work as a pipeline product developer within the CX Commerce Cloud central pipeline team. You will ensure high-quality and reliable software releases and drive our organization's developer productivity and developer experience by enabling teams to run their CI/CD pipelines and processes more efficiently. In our key focus areas, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Design, implement, test and document pipeline features and improvements within our Jenkins based Pipeline-as-a-Service product using Groovy based seed-jobs, Jenkinsfiles, shared Jenkins libraries, self written Gradle Plugins, Java and JUnit tests.</li> <li>Actively contribute to upholding our clean code principles by performing code reviews, writing unit tests, following security guidelines and other quality checks.</li> <li>Modernize and adapt our pipeline product as the organization's development processes and products evolve.</li> <li>Enable innovative technologies and 3rd party integration systems such as SonarQube, GitHub Advanced Security, Black Duck, and others.</li> <li>Design and develop high-quality pipeline components in a self-reliant way while aligning with the technical leads, the team and company standards.</li> <li>Closely collaborate with our product owner and our stakeholders within the software organization to ensure continuous improvement of our software releases and developer experience.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><b>What you bring</b></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>You have relevant work experience in designing and building enterprise software using industry-standard programming technologies and languages.</li> <li>You are adaptable and flexible, capable of managing ambiguity and change effectively.</li> <li>You work independently on tasks agreed within the team, leveraging your strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to investigate and develop solutions until resolution.</li> <li>You communicate clearly and proactively within a team’s structure and have excellent verbal and written English skills.</li> <li>You have a good understanding of enterprise software management and delivery practices and tools.</li> <li>You have hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps technologies and practices.</li> <li>Ideally, you have a background in computer science or a related field.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><b>Tech you bring</b></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Professional experience in an industry-standard programming language like Java and Groovy.</li> <li>Solid understanding of and experience with enterprise software management tools and concepts like GitHub/Git (pull requests, merging, tagging), and other code management practices.</li> <li>Experience with build automation tools like Ant, Maven and Gradle.<br/>  </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><b>Tech you'll learn</b></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Jenkins as our CI/CD tool (e.g. Job DSL, Jenkins plugins, shared libraries)</li> <li>Configuration as code principles (e.g. Helm charts, seed job)</li> <li>Integration of application security tools like Black Duck, Mend, GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube.</li> <li>Software process management and documentation with tools like Jira and Confluence.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><b>Meet your team</b></p> <p>SAP Industries &amp; Customer Experience (CX) enables organizations to deliver rich, hyper-personalized omnichannel experiences that nurture customer relationships across every customer's unique journey.</p> <p>Within the CX Commerce Cloud organization we are the central pipeline team responsible for providing central CI/CD pipeline solutions to dozens of teams across multiple timezones ensuring high-quality product releases and developer efficiency.</p> <p>Our team is distributed in Europe, the Americas and China.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span><span><span id="cke_bm_1617S"> </span></span></span></p> <p>​<b>Bring out your best</b></p> <p><span>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