Development Manager – GenAI CI / CD Tooling

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:

132328079

Posted On:

07 October 2025

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 do

As a Development Manager, you will lead a team of AI Developers, Data Scientists, and CI/CD developers focused on building GenAI-powered, agentic CI/CD tools and services. Your primary stakeholder will be the SAP HANA Database Development organization, which relies on your team’s innovations to accelerate and safeguard feature delivery. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities. You will own the roadmap, execution, and adoption of GenAI-driven CI/CD enhancements that empower database engineers to ship faster, with greater confidence and reliability.

You will directly impact how our database teams release features by delivering reliable, secure, and efficient GenAI-enabled CI/CD tooling — while also growing and empowering the engineers who build those tools.

You will join a larger organization headquartered in Germany, where your direct manager is also based.

Your role will involve:

-Act as the primary partner to the Database Development organization: gather requirements, prioritize CI/CD feature requests, drive adoption and measure impact.
-Lead people and HR activities: regular one-on-ones, career coaching, performance reviews, promotions, hiring and onboarding, workload planning and conflict resolution.
-Define and manage the team roadmap for GenAI CI/CD services: prioritize work, set milestones, and coordinate cross-team dependencies.
-Be a hands-on contributor: design solutions, review code, prototype integrations, and help implement the tools and automation when needed.
-Track service reliability and adoption: define SLAs, telemetry for hallucination/cost/latency, user feedback loops, and iterate on tooling based on stakeholder needs.
-Build team skills and culture: create training plans, mentorship, hiring plans, and foster inclusive, high-performance behaviors.
 

What you bring

-5+ years building production application, developer tooling or platform services; experience delivering GenAI/LLM-powered features preferred.
-2+ years of people management or formal technical leadership.
-Practical experience with agentic systems preferred.
-Solid engineering background: Python, basic infrastructure (containers, CI tools like GitHub Actions/Jenkins/ArgoCD).
-Strong communicator and collaborator: able to present tradeoffs, drive cross-functional alignment and evangelize tool adoption.
-Fluency in English.
 

 

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.

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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.

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Requisition ID: 437455  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 – 10%  | Career Status: Management  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

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