As a SAP Technical Lead, you’ll be supporting the data & integration strategy working with various stakeholders from different projects. Working in a DevOps model, you will be responsible for the delivery of new apps/integrations within the SAP Integration Suite whilst also supporting operational resilience and platform stability.

You will be responsible for the success of SAP implementations and ensure the technical quality, governance, and operationalisation of the solutions. This position requires deep experience with SAP applications, including expert-level knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and SAP cloud applications like Ariba, SuccessFactors, and Service Cloud. You will act as the product owner and be responsible for defining the stories and backlog, prioritising the workload of interfaces.

As a technical expert, you will be willing to assist the development of others whilst also developing your knowledge. You will ensure best practices are followed and look for opportunities for improvement.

What you’ll be doing as a SAP Technical Lead

Design & Development:

  • Create the high-level design of SAP solutions and guide on the choice of SAP components and patterns to use in the detailed design and implementation.
  • Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate functional and non-functional requirements into SAP implementations.
  • Develop new solutions and amend/enhance existing solutions according to the customer’s requirements.
  • Collaborate with project/product teams to create, design and deliver a range of re-useable cloud solutions using SAP applications.
  • Convert business requirements into practical solutions, delivering high-quality products that are fit for purpose, robust and secure.
  • Led all technical design, development, testing, continuous improvement, maintenance and support of corporate solutions to support strategic insight and analytical decisions.
  • Lead a development, testing and support team of engineers to support and enhance existing solutions and to deliver new solutions.
  • Work closely with business stakeholders and product owners to scope and estimate project activities, including the solutions delivery roadmap through to development, testing and signoff of delivered solutions.
  • Perform peer checking of colleagues’ deliverables, ensuring outcomes follow best-practice and meet expected standards.
  • Ensure that deliverables that are ready for deployment are fit for purpose, and meet the standards, quality targets and requirements (both functional and non-functional).

Platform Support:

  • Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, versioning, reliability, monitoring, and other operational concerns of SAP solutions.
  • Support stakeholders in troubleshooting with existing solutions.
  • Accountability for the management of any production incidents or problems.
  • Document and direct the handover of solutions into business-as-usual (BAU) operations to support a robust service transition.
  • Own and manage deployments of new releases to the production environment.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Identify areas of continuous improvement and create effective solutions to implement them.
  • Become a key contributor and advocate of SAP best practices and frameworks in projects and programs.
  • Continually reviewing the development and approaches to ensure base standards are consistent and the latest platform features are being used.
  • Assist in reviewing the existing SAP landscape, increase reuse and expand our monitoring capabilities.

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Engage with internal stakeholders to understand requirements, define solutions, and agree on the definition of done.

Mentoring and training:

  • Undertake mentoring and cross-training of colleagues using your skillset to develop others.

Team planning and review:

  • Participate in team DevOps ceremonies (sprint planning, show and tell, sprint review etc), providing valued input and being an excellent team player.

Base Location: Reading - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 36 Hours

What you should bring to the role

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:

  • Extensive experience with SAP applications (development, testing, and deployment experience) and more than 4 years of hands-on experience with SAP ECC and S/4HANA.
  • Hands-on development experience with SAP best practices and standards.
  • Expertise in different components/capabilities of SAP Cloud applications – SAP Ariba, SuccessFactors, Service Cloud.
  • Strong experience in leveraging standard SAP content to build solutions for interfaces between SAP applications.
  • Strong expertise in designing solutions in SAP and their components – Communication channels, adapters, message transformation, routings, and groovy scripts.
  • Expertise in SAP message logging capabilities and typical error handling & monitoring mechanisms.
  • Strong experience in designing reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate SAP projects (RAML, REST, SOAP).
  • Experience working within a DevOps environment and the related processes and controls.
 

What’s in it for you?

  • Offering between £65,000 - £83,000 per annum, depending on experience.
  • Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays).
  • Car allowance.
  • Annual bonus.
  • Private medical healthcare.
  • Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
  • Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
  • Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of your and your family’s health and well-being, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

Who are we?

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.