Data Science Leader, HCM

building a culture of technical excellence, operational rigor, and continuous learning.

Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and translate technical concepts into business value.

5+ years of people management experience leading data science and AI teams, with demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and retaining top AI talent.

Proven experience delivering large-scale AI programs across multiple teams and business units and partnering with senior executives to define AI strategy and investment priorities.

Experience leading globally distributed teams and cross-organizational AI initiatives, including managing budgets, hiring plans, vendor relationships, and strategic partnerships.

defining AI adoption strategies, measuring business impact through KPIs, and establishing reusable enterprise AI platforms, governance frameworks, and shared services across multiple product areas.

Thought leadership demonstrated through patents, publications, conference presentations, open-source contributions, or industry recognition in AI, knowledge graphs, semantic technologies, or enterprise intelligence.

Knowledge of SAP’s domains, data models, metadata structures and core business processes end-to-end.

with the SAP data and AI platform stack SAP Datasphere, SAP HANA Cloud Knowledge Graph Engine, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP One Domain Model, SAP Graph API, and SAP Business Accelerator Hub.

Experience defining AI/ML architecture, platform strategy, model governance, responsible AI practices, and operational frameworks for enterprise-scale deployments.

Ability to evaluate emerging AI technologies and establish best practices for ML Ops, LLM Ops, and model lifecycle management - making pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions across platform investments and technology roadmaps.

Strong domain expertise in ontology engineering, semantic technologies, metadata management, entity resolution, taxonomies, and knowledge representation, with demonstrated experience designing, building, and scaling ontology-driven enterprise intelligence solutions, including knowledge graphs, semantic layers, and business knowledge models.

integrating knowledge graphs and ontology layers with machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, RAG architectures, and enterprise data platforms to improve reasoning, explainability, grounding, and business context.

Ability to collaborate with domain experts and business stakeholders to translate complex business processes, data assets, and enterprise knowledge into reusable semantic and knowledge graph frameworks.

Deep knowledge of SAP application data models, domain processes, and enterprise data architecture, with the ability to apply this understanding to design ontologies, semantic layers, and knowledge graph solutions that accurately reflect SAP's business and application context.

Ability to conduct Machine Learning Model Training.

Employees who excel in this skill have expertise in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, as well as proficiency in software tools and programming languages.

They are capable of selecting the right algorithm for a problem, preparing data sets, and testing model accuracy.

Ability to utilize deep learning and neural networks to enable machines to learn from data and make decisions.

Employees who excel in this skill have specialized abilities in mathematics, programming, and data analysis, making them highly coveted in the tech industry.

Ability to design, build, and maintain infrastructure for data collection, transformation, storage, and analysis.

Employees who excel in this skill have a high level of technical expertise in programming, data modeling, and data visualization.

Ability to design, delegate, and supervise multi-agent workflows involving autonomous AI agents with multi-step reasoning and coordination.

Employees who excel in this skill manage task decomposition, agent communication, error handling, quality human validation, and design agent harnesses for long-running tasks, context durability, tool lifecycle, and sub-agent coordination.

Ability to design, implement, and optimize semantic search and retrieval architectures including RAG pipelines, knowledge graphs, and hybrid vector/keyword search systems and Lakehouse architectures.

Employees who excel in this skill have deep expertise in embedding models, retrieval optimization techniques, and modern data architecture patterns.

Where you belong

Join a collaborative, forward-thinking team defining how enterprise AI actually works on a global scale.

You'll work alongside curious engineers, thoughtful product minds, and applied researchers all focused on building AI that customers can trust in the highest-stakes business processes.

There's room to grow into new technical spaces, ship real impact, and shape SAP's AI future.

If you value learning, real ownership, and building foundational infrastructure that matters, you'll feel at home here.

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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, 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. Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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Requisition ID: 459594 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Executive | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid