Technical Product Owner (f/m/d) - SAP Cloud Virtualization

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What you`ll do

As an enthusiastic hands-on Technical Product Owner, looking to work in a dynamic environment and team, you will be responsible for Cross-Project Management, Development and Quality Plans and Processes, KPIs, Release/Rollout Planning tasks, Compliance, and contribute to: Business Operations, Cloud Capacity Planning, Cloud Partnerships, and more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• In partnership with technical leadership: lead, own, create and maintain high quality product roadmap and backlog in Jira with well-defined user stories, priorities and acceptance criteria; own other product-related topics such as documentation, hand-off to Operations, risk-mitigation, etc.
• Understand the needs and finances of the SAP Cloud business, especially HANA Cloud
• Maintain / Create partnerships with the consumers of the technology; secure buy-in, and deliver the business results 
• Ensure that our products are exceptionally reliable, scalable, and secure
• Define and track KPIs to ensure business value delivery and quality of service
• “Sell” to additional Lines of Business in SAP and create implementation plans with them
• Challenge the status quo while collaborating closely with the Cloud TCO team
• On-call manager duties, and maintenance weekends

What you bring

• B.Sc / B.Eng in Comp.Sci. / Electronics / Ind.Eng
• 8 yrs in software/hardware / cloud, 3 yrs in Product Management or tech. Product Owner
• Software engineering for cloud and infrastructure (build / deploy / test) with Infrastructure/low-level-programming products; APIs, CLIs, and SDKs for Cloud
• Agile methodologies at enterprise scale with distributed teams, Creating / maintaining / sunsetting features for customers with competing needs
• Security for infrastructure and cloud products; SRE aspects of product engineering
• Converting ambiguity into alignment, details, and action – working with complex stakeholder networks
• Highly analytical and structured; excellent and self-sufficient Excel and Power Point skills
• Excellent communications skills, to technical and non-technical audiences; Fluent in English, written and verbal.

Meet your team

SAP’s Cloud Virtualization Group develops the vSMP MemoryONE hypervisor which enables the transparent use of Non-volatile Memory as main system memory, enabling lower TCO for HANA Cloud and other SAP workloads, increasing the margin for SAP’s Cloud business. Majority of the team is in Israel.

We build breakthroughs together

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

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 and more equitable world.
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Requisition ID: 391170 | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 20% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Part time or Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Walldorf