AI Product Expert for Defense and Security📣 Job Ad
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
SAP is seeking an AI Product Expert for Defense and Security to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is focused on leveraging AI to address complex business challenges within the Defense and Security sectors. The position involves working directly with customers to identify high-impact AI use cases within their SAP landscape and collaborating with SAP teams to develop end-to-end AI solutions. This is an opportunity for continuous learning and skill growth within a supportive team environment.
The team is dedicated to serving customers across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, combining AI expertise, industry knowledge, and regional understanding to support customer innovation and transformation. The environment supports fast-paced projects focused on turning business challenges into practical, scalable solutions, valuing curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage directly with Defense and Security customers in KSA to identify, prioritize, and define AI use cases on S/4HANA and SAP BTP.
- Design and implement comprehensive AI solutions, including data pipelines from SAP, model selection and integration using SAP Business AI/BTP services, and UI/process integration.
- Manage agile cycles from Proof of Concept to Pilot and Production, collect user feedback, and drive adoption within business processes.
- Serve as a liaison between Riyadh Lab customers and global SAP Product & Engineering, contributing requirements, identified gaps, and patterns to the product roadmap.
- Develop reusable accelerators such as reference architectures, templates, and best practices for scaling across KSA and the region.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Translate business challenges into clear technical designs and deliver end-to-end, production-ready solutions.
- Engage effectively with customers, leading discovery sessions, delivering demonstrations, and explaining technical trade-offs in business terms.
- Operate in a forward-deployed role, taking ownership, collaborating with global teams, and focusing on creating measurable customer impact.
- Experience working with local customers and partners is considered a plus.
- Possess a solid understanding of data and AI/ML concepts, including data modeling, APIs, and common AI patterns like forecasting, classification, and copilots/assistants.
- Demonstrate end-to-end process knowledge of fundamental Defense and Security processes, including Force Deployment and Logistics, Disconnected Operations, and Defense Supply Chain.
- Exhibit knowledge of the Defense & Security market, its evolution, industry-specific challenges, and SAP's industry portfolio.
- Be comfortable in customer-facing and partner-facing engagements, including discovery workshops, demos, managing stakeholders, and explaining technical trade-offs in business language.
- Have a strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Possess hands-on experience with SAP BTP, integrations, and at least one major SAP domain (finance, logistics, HR, supply chain, or defense solution).
- Demonstrate prototyping skills using tools such as Claude Code or FIGMA.
- Be comfortable operating as a forward-deployed engineer with high ownership, tolerance for ambiguity, and a collaborative approach with global teams, driven by customer impact.
Required Skills and Competencies
- AI use case identification and framing
- SAP landscape understanding
- AI solution design and implementation
- Data pipeline development
- Model selection and integration
- SAP Business AI and BTP services
- UI and process integration
- Agile methodologies (PoC, pilot, production cycles)
- User feedback gathering and adoption driving
- Customer and global team collaboration
- Roadmap contribution
- Accelerator development (reference architectures, templates, best practices)
- Technical design and solution delivery
- Customer and partner engagement
- Discovery sessions and demonstrations
- Stakeholder management
- Technical trade-off explanation in business terms
- Forward-deployed role execution
- Ownership and accountability
- Data modeling
- API integration
- AI/ML patterns (forecasting, classification, copilots/assistants)
- Defense and Security process knowledge (Force Deployment and Logistics, Disconnected Operations, Defense Supply Chain)
- Defense & Security market understanding
- SAP's industry portfolio knowledge
- Software engineering (Python, Java, TypeScript)
- SAP BTP and integrations
- SAP domain knowledge (finance, logistics, HR, supply chain, defense)
- Prototyping (Claude Code, FIGMA)
- Ambiguity tolerance
- AI expertise
- Industry knowledge
- Regional understanding
- Innovation and transformation
- Curiosity and continuous learning
- Customer centricity
- Focus on meaningful outcomes
- Adaptability to evolving AI landscape
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) concepts
- End-to-end business application software
- Database, analytics, and intelligent technologies
- Experience management
- Cloud company operations
- Collaborative team ethic
- Personal development
Work Environment and Details
This is a full-time, regular employment position. The role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia. Expected travel is between 0-10%. The position is classified as a Professional career status.
SAP innovations support over four hundred thousand customers worldwide. As a cloud company with a global presence, SAP is purpose-driven and future-focused, emphasizing a collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. SAP is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and provides accessibility accommodations. Background verification may be required for successful candidates.
Requirements
- No experience required
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