Senior Data Engineer - Operations and Knowledge Graph

Senior Data Engineer Operations - SAP Enterprise Knowledge Graph

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What you'll build 

 

 

The SAP Global Content Group (GCG) Engineering team builds the SAP Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) — integrating SAP's reference business data across products, processes, and business objects into a unified semantic layer. To create and maintain the EKG, we develop an internal platform that exposes the knowledge graph via data access APIs and AI-powered services, and powers a neuro-symbolic AI application that enables intelligent search, reasoning, and knowledge exploration across SAP's enterprise data. This platform runs on a Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure on SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP), operating continuously to serve users and dependent services around the globe. 

 

As a Senior Data Engineer in our Content Infrastructure & Automation team based in India, you are a senior individual contributor who owns complex data engineering challenges end-to-end and serves as the team's critical operational anchor during European off-hours: 

 

• Design, build, and operate the data ingestion, transformation, and delivery pipelines that feed the Enterprise Knowledge Graph — ensuring correctness, completeness, and freshness of knowledge at scale. 
• Own the reliability and operational health of our Kubernetes infrastructure — monitoring system state, diagnosing incidents, and independently restoring services when issues arise outside European business hours. 
• Be the first responder for platform incidents during India business hours: triage alerts, assess impact, execute recovery procedures, and hand off with clear context to the European team — ensuring the system is stable before they start their day. 
• Develop and evolve knowledge graph data models, RDF-based ontologies, and SPARQL queries that structure and power our AI application's reasoning and retrieval capabilities. 
• Build automated data quality checks and evaluation pipelines that detect regressions and ensure the knowledge graph remains accurate and consistent. 
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and infrastructure-as-code, supporting reliable, automated delivery. 
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, and product owners across time zones to deliver platform improvements and resolve cross-functional dependencies. 
• Mentor junior engineers on data engineering practices, Kubernetes operations, and knowledge graph fundamentals. 

 

 

What you bring 

 

 

• Total of 10+ years of professional experience
• 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering or backend software engineering, with demonstrated ownership of production systems. 
• Strong, hands-on Kubernetes expertise: you are comfortable diagnosing pod failures, inspecting logs, managing deployments, and restoring service health independently — without waiting for guidance. 
• Solid experience with cloud-native infrastructure on a major cloud platform (SAP BTP, AWS, GCP, or Azure); familiarity with Helm, K8s Operators, Crossplane, Flux, ArgoCD, kubectl, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. 
• Proven experience building and operating data pipelines at scale — including ETL/ELT workflows, streaming infrastructure (Kafka or similar), data validation, and pipeline monitoring. 
• Comfort operating as an on-call engineer: you can independently triage and resolve incidents, distinguish signal from noise, and communicate status clearly to a distributed team. 
• Experience with observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, alerting with BTP Alert and Notification service, and log analysis. 
• Solid understanding of knowledge graph or semantic technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) — or a demonstrable aptitude and motivation to develop this expertise quickly. 
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with TypeScript or Java is an advantage. 
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to collaborate asynchronously and hand off clearly across time zones. 
• B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science, Information technology, or a related field. 

 

 

Where you belong 

 

 

SAP Global Content Group (GCG) builds the Enterprise Knowledge Graph to unify SAP's business and system knowledge, delivering it via a platform and a neuro-symbolic AI application used across SAP and by external customers. This role is based in India — our India team is primarily located in Gurgaon — and plays a pivotal part in ensuring global service continuity: you are the team's operational presence during hours when Europe is offline. Join a global team of engineers, researchers, and AI experts building the semantic foundation of SAP's intelligent enterprise. 

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Bring out your best
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Requisition ID: 453914  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Level