Data Science Manager - Optimization, Quantum & AI (m/f/d)

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Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. The Development Manager Optimization, Quantum & AI will lead the transformation of an established data science team into a strategic contributor to SAP’s autonomous decision infrastructure.

You will manage a team with extensive experience in classical analytics and guide their evolution toward building decision‑capable systems that evaluate, optimize, orchestrate, and execute under dynamic constraints.

The Role Lead the technical transformation of an established data science team toward autonomous decision systems, building capability in optimization algorithms, constraint‑based problem solving, and hybrid computational architectures.

Integrate your team into the broader Optimization, Quantum & AI organization as strategic contributors to decision infrastructure, fostering collaboration with optimization engineers, quantum researchers, and AI architects.

Develop team expertise in quantum computing concepts and identify opportunities where quantum‑enhanced solutions create enterprise value. Build understanding of orchestration systems, execution layers, and enterprise integration requirements—positioning the team within agent layers, optimization solvers, and operational platforms.

Assess individual readiness, create personalized development plans, and manage performance honestly—recognizing growth, supporting struggles, and making difficult decisions about team composition.

Collaborate with architects and product managers to translate business requirements from diverse domains—supply chain, finance, HR, procurement, customer operations—into decision architecture challenges, positioning the team to become the core engine for SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise with Quantum Brain across the entire application portfolio.

What You Bring Leadership experience in software development with a proven track record leading teams through significant capability shifts or technology transitions (5+ years). Well‑honed people management skills with demonstrated success in upskilling teams, introducing new methodologies, and delivering results during organizational change.

Experience integrating teams into broader technical organizations and breaking down silos between specialized functions. Ability to work in a multi‑domain environment, crossing technical, academic, research, and business boundaries—with vision to expand team scope across SAP’s entire application portfolio.

Meet Your Team You’ll join SAP’s Optimization, Quantum & AI organization—a team redefining what enterprise systems can do. This team will become the core engine of SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise with Quantum Brain, expanding across the entire application portfolio.

If you want to lead teams through genuine transformation where constraints are real and strategic impact is organization‑wide—this is your opportunity.

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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? What You’ll Do Enterprise software is shifting from passive process infrastructure to active decision infrastructure.

SAP is pioneering autonomous enterprise decision systems that combine optimization science, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence to help organizations navigate complexity and execute under real-world constraints.

Maintain productivity during transformation, delivering measurable improvement in decision quality, planning speed, or operational performance while building new capabilities. Technical credibility in data science, optimization, or systems engineering sufficient to earn respect from practitioners and engage in architectural discussions.

Understanding of how software systems operate in complex enterprise environments across multiple business domains. Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills with the ability to translate vision into concrete action. Highly professional and structured working style with capacity to manage complex stakeholder networks.

Ability to thrive in dynamic environments that cross organizational boundaries while maintaining delivery accountability. Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related field; strong willingness to immerse oneself in optimization, quantum computing, and decision architecture is essential.

We’re architecting decision‑capable infrastructure where optimization science, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence converge into deployable systems. We operate with clarity about what matters: decision quality, system reliability, deployment credibility, and governance.

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