Product Manager for Big Data & Hadoop Development and Admin
Date: Jul 20, 2026
Location: Walldorf, Germany
Company: automation-1
Ref-Code: DE-60437803-EN-15-001
Work area: Software - Design and Development
Expected travel: 0% - 30%
Career status:
Employment type: Regular Full Time
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.The Big Data Platform Product Management team is looking for an outstanding Technical Product Manager to define and drive the business, technical direction and GTM from the perspective of Developer tooling, Coding and Application Development perspectives. This person will play a significant role in the business and resulting technology decisions for the SAP Big Data product lines. This is a challenging position that requires a candidate passionate about continuously delivering highly innovative Big Data products and solutions to the market. A position at this level requires a candidate who needs little to no supervision; a proven self-starter capable of understanding what needs to be done and makes it happen. This technical Product Management position reporting into the CTO and Engineering organization.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Manage entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to EOL.
- Specify product requirements by conducting research supported by customer feedback and working with all geography leaders and their teams to integrate feedback and business requirements. Ensures the right blend of trade-offs to maximize the product impact in the marketplace, considering competition, time to market, costs and internal capabilities.
- Exceptional presentation and communications skills with an ability to work directly with Sales and customers to evangelize products and technologies at events, customer meeting and through social channels.
- Work directly with Engineering including SAP HANA Product Management, Sales, and Customers to develop an innovative and competitive roadmap that drives future revenue and market share growth.
- Educates other teams on technical and business benefits of the Big Data Platform product family and solutions, with a particular focus on the sales and pre-sales organizations.
- Analyze, execute, and assist in managing potential partner relationships for the product line.
- Works closely with all internal groups to ensure successful product roll-out and on-going internal and external 3rd-party certifications/qualifications as required.
- Keeping abreast of the market, our competitors, customer requirements and the available products. Assist with strategy setting with regard to the market segment.
WORK EXPERIENCE
3+ years of Product Management experience.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Ideal candidate has an undergraduate degree in computer science and a graduate degree in a technical or business field. Direct experience in software engineering is very valuable.
- Familiarity of development tools like IDEs, Maven, Junit etc.
- Understanding of object-oriented design concepts.
- Experience with data ingestion and processing or transformation into HDFS using Flume, Hive, and/or MapReduce.
- Working knowledge of Hadoop, HDFS, Hive and Linux.
- Experience in Apache Spark and in general Hadoop projects under ASF.
- Working knowledge of Java and/or Python or Scala and web services/APIs.
- Experience and familiarity of Hadoop and noSQL infrastructures
- Understanding of Hadoop and noSQL architectures.
- Working knowledge of Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Linux and server/system architecture (Server, networking, storage, clustering technologies, HA/DR, MPP computing databases, etc).
- Experience of deployment with very large datasets (100s of terabytes to Petabytes of data) distributed across large data clusters
- Track record of success in business technology related consulting implementing Hadoop solutions.
- Knowledge of the techniques, sensitivities, and issues around consulting and Knowledge of IT architecture processes and IT technologies.
- Must be a self-starter who has sufficient knowledge and motivation to require very little direct management.
- High proficiency in working in diverse, virtual and geographically dispersed teams.
Work area: Software - Design and Development
Expected travel: 0% - 30%
Career status:
Employment type: Regular Full Time
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
SAP is the global market leader for business software and thus contributes a considerable part of the world's economic power grid. At SAP you get your chance to put your ideas into action with maximum impact.The Big Data Platform Product Management team is looking for an outstanding Technical Product Manager to define and drive the business, technical direction and GTM from the perspective of Developer tooling, Coding and Application Development perspectives. This person will play a significant role in the business and resulting technology decisions for the SAP Big Data product lines. This is a challenging position that requires a candidate passionate about continuously delivering highly innovative Big Data products and solutions to the market. A position at this level requires a candidate who needs little to no supervision; a proven self-starter capable of understanding what needs to be done and makes it happen. This technical Product Management position reporting into the CTO and Engineering organization.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
- Manage entire product lifecycle from strategic planning to EOL.
- Specify product requirements by conducting research supported by customer feedback and working with all geography leaders and their teams to integrate feedback and business requirements. Ensures the right blend of trade-offs to maximize the product impact in the marketplace, considering competition, time to market, costs and internal capabilities.
- Exceptional presentation and communications skills with an ability to work directly with Sales and customers to evangelize products and technologies at events, customer meeting and through social channels.
- Work directly with Engineering including SAP HANA Product Management, Sales, and Customers to develop an innovative and competitive roadmap that drives future revenue and market share growth.
- Educates other teams on technical and business benefits of the Big Data Platform product family and solutions, with a particular focus on the sales and pre-sales organizations.
- Analyze, execute, and assist in managing potential partner relationships for the product line.
- Works closely with all internal groups to ensure successful product roll-out and on-going internal and external 3rd-party certifications/qualifications as required.
- Keeping abreast of the market, our competitors, customer requirements and the available products. Assist with strategy setting with regard to the market segment.
WORK EXPERIENCE
3+ years of Product Management experience.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Ideal candidate has an undergraduate degree in computer science and a graduate degree in a technical or business field. Direct experience in software engineering is very valuable.
- Familiarity of development tools like IDEs, Maven, Junit etc.
- Understanding of object-oriented design concepts.
- Experience with data ingestion and processing or transformation into HDFS using Flume, Hive, and/or MapReduce.
- Working knowledge of Hadoop, HDFS, Hive and Linux.
- Experience in Apache Spark and in general Hadoop projects under ASF.
- Working knowledge of Java and/or Python or Scala and web services/APIs.
- Experience and familiarity of Hadoop and noSQL infrastructures
- Understanding of Hadoop and noSQL architectures.
- Working knowledge of Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Linux and server/system architecture (Server, networking, storage, clustering technologies, HA/DR, MPP computing databases, etc).
- Experience of deployment with very large datasets (100s of terabytes to Petabytes of data) distributed across large data clusters
- Track record of success in business technology related consulting implementing Hadoop solutions.
- Knowledge of the techniques, sensitivities, and issues around consulting and Knowledge of IT architecture processes and IT technologies.
- Must be a self-starter who has sufficient knowledge and motivation to require very little direct management.
- High proficiency in working in diverse, virtual and geographically dispersed teams.