Development Manager - UX Foundation

Ho Chi Minh City
Permanent
Full-time

29 days ago

We help the world run betterAt SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.What you’ll doAs a Development Manager, you’ll build and lead engineering teams that create software used by 440,000+ customers and 200+ million users worldwide. You’ll ensure customers, partners, and users get the benefits of a consistent user experience across all their touchpoints with the SAP ecosystem, while establishing Ho Chi Minh City as a strategic engineering hub and leading the development of world-class engineering capabilities in Vietnam’s rapidly growing tech market.Roles & Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development:

Build world-class engineering teams by recruiting, developing, and retaining top Vietnamese engineering talent while leading distributed teams across Vietnam, India, Germany, and the US. You’ll collaborate with colleagues around the world to develop the next generation of Vietnamese tech leaders, blend Vietnamese work culture with SAP’s global engineering practices, and establish mentorship programs that accelerate team growth and capability development.

Technical Excellence and Platform Ownership:

Lead development of UX Foundation components used by millions and drive technical strategy for scalable, enterprise-grade systems. You’ll implement cutting-edge technologies including AI and cloud-native solutions, establish engineering practices that ensure high availability for global customers, and manage the technical architecture decisions that directly impact customer satisfaction and business success.

Business Impact and Strategic Planning:

Manage development budgets and timelines while ensuring engineering deliverables meet enterprise customer requirements. You’ll optimize development processes for maximum productivity and quality, contribute to SAP’s long-term technology roadmap and investment decisions, and drive operational efficiency initiatives that directly impact customer success and satisfaction.What you bring

Leadership Excellence:

8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years in engineering management
Team building with proven track record of building and scaling engineering teams (10+ developers)
Global experience managing distributed teams across multiple time zones
Technical leadership with strong technical background and hands-on development experience
People management skills in hiring, mentoring, and performance management
Strategic thinking ability to balance technical decisions with business objectives
Technical Expertise:

Full-stack development with deep experience in modern web technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js)
Cloud platforms with hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP at enterprise scale
System architecture experience designing scalable, distributed systems
Data & analytics understanding of data-driven development and metrics
Security & compliance knowledge of enterprise security requirements and practices
DevOps & automation experience with CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure as code
Business Acumen:

Budget management experience managing development budgets and resource allocation
Delivery excellence with track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget
Stakeholder management ability to communicate effectively with business leaders and customers
Cultural intelligence understanding of working in multicultural, global environments
Metrics-driven experience using KPIs and metrics to drive team performance and improvement

Meet your teamThe UX Foundation team in Ho Chi Minh City is where high energy meets family vibes! We’re a tight-knit group of developers, designers, and product folks who move fast, support each other, and celebrate every win together. Think startup energy with enterprise impact - we ship features that millions use while maintaining the kind of team culture where everyone has each other’s backs.Whether we’re solving complex customer problems or celebrating a successful product release, we do it as a family. You’ll find us collaborating across time zones with our colleagues in Silicon Valley, Dublin, and Germany, mentoring each other, and always ready to jump in when someone needs help. It’s the kind of team where your leadership drives global innovation, your strategic vision shapes the future of enterprise software, and your impact gets amplified across the entire organization.Our modern office in HCMC’s tech district features gaming zones, a rooftop garden, and collaboration spaces designed for both focused strategic work and executive planning sessions. We believe in flexible hybrid work, global leadership opportunities, and creating an environment where technical excellence and strategic thinking thrive naturally while always keeping customer success at the center of everything we do.Bring out your bestSAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best.We win with inclusionSAP’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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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.Requisition ID: 431859 | Work Area: Software-Design and Development | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

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