Software Engineer (Data Privacy)

The development center of SAP in Bulgaria plays a key role in the defining and developing of the SAP Business Technology Platform. With its more than 1700 professionals, SAP Labs Bulgaria also has strong contributions toward life-cycle management, user interface & user experience across the broader portfolio of SAP products and business applications. Most recently, SAP Labs Bulgaria expanded in the topics of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For its 25-year history, the company has established itself as a preferred employer in the IT sector in Bulgaria.

What you`ll do:

We are looking for a software engineer who will work with us on the provisioning of innovative de-identification solutions to meet data privacy requirements. These solutions include encryption, hashing, and anonymization of personal identifiable information. Many of these solutions include machine learning approaches.

As a senior software engineer you will

• Design and deliver services for privacy enhancing technologies such as encryption, hashing, and anonymization
• Design and deliver solutions to anonymize structured and unstructured data including text, attachments, and images
• Actively collaborate with business stakeholders, legal experts, and technical specialists during all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Apply ML algorithms for the anonymization of personal information in unstructured data
• Evaluate model performance using appropriate metrics and refine models to improve accuracy, precision, recall, and other key performance indicators

What you bring:

• Master’s degree in computer science, data science or related field
• Professional experience in developing cloud applications, for example in programming languages like python or java, in versioning systems such as GIT, and in setting up CI/CD pipelines
• Practical experience in delivering services for de-identification of personal information
• Knowledge in the field of ML and deep learning, for example in NLP
• Knowledge of the SAP technology stack such as SAP HANA and BTP
• Experience with working in scrum teams and ideally in a SAFe setup
• Excellent communication skills, fluency in English, German is a plus
• General interest in data protection and privacy topics

Meet your team:

The EDT Data Protection team contributes towards how SAP respects data protection and privacy rights and safeguards the personal data of individuals under SAP’s control.  
It is a team of experienced project management and technical experts who share a passion for data protection and privacy topics.