Responsibilities
• Lead and manage the SAP Development and Integration team.
• Set individual and team objectives aligned with IT strategy and SAP Centre of Excellence (CoE) goals.
• Conduct performance reviews, coaching, development discussions and succession planning.
• Promote accountability, collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Support employee engagement, wellbeing, retention and technical skills development.
• Lead SAP development, integration, extension and automation across the hybrid SAP landscape.
• Oversee development and integration activities across SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC HCM, SuccessFactors, SAP BTP and related platforms.
• Guide technical decisions between standard SAP configuration, released APIs, side-by-side extensions and approved integration patterns.
• Drive the modernisation of custom code, integrations and extensions in line with clean-core principles.
• Promote the use of SAP Integration Suite, API-led integration and event-driven architecture.
• Ensure secure and reliable connectivity between cloud-based and on-premise SAP systems.
• Provide technical guidance on ABAP, RAP, CDS Views, OData, Fiori, workflow and SAP BTP technologies.
• Assess opportunities for process automation and AI-assisted development where appropriate.
• Personally undertake selected development and integration tasks when required.
• Receive, assess, prioritise and allocate JIRA requests across business-as-usual (BAU), project delivery, integration and technical debt.
• Manage resource allocation and capacity across support, development, integration and modernisation initiatives.
• Coordinate stakeholder meetings to review priorities, progress, capacity and escalations.
• Ensure projects and technical requests are delivered within agreed deadlines and quality standards.
• Monitor technical issues and resolve defects across SAP applications, integrations, workflows and connectivity layers.
• Establish and maintain SAP development standards and technical best practices.
• Enforce release, incident, change management, audit and security procedures.
• Ensure compliance with SAP CoE and BTP governance requirements.
• Apply clean-core principles, secure-by-design integration and approved architectural patterns.
• Support DevSecOps practices, controlled deployments and release management.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation, knowledge transfer and operational handover.
• Advise functional teams and business stakeholders on SAP solution options and technical feasibility.
• Challenge requirements where necessary to ensure solutions are practical, sustainable and fit for purpose.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, integration reliability and development efficiency.
• Mentor internal resources and strengthen the team's technical capabilities.
• Promote continuous learning across SAP cloud technologies, integration, security and AI-enabled development.
Competency
• Strong SAP development and integration expertise.
• Good understanding of SAP S/4HANA, SAP BTP and hybrid SAP environments.
• Knowledge of ABAP, ABAP OO, RAP, CDS Views, OData and SAP Fiori.
• Understanding of SAP Integration Suite, API Management and secure integration patterns.
• Knowledge of clean-core architecture, cloud extensibility and custom-code modernisation.
• Understanding of SAP governance, security, DevSecOps and release management.
• Awareness of AI-assisted development and SAP Business AI capabilities.
• Strong team leadership, coaching and mentoring abilities.
• Effective workload planning, resource allocation and prioritisation.
• Ability to manage performance and build technical capability.
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under pressure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to challenge requirements constructively and recommend suitable solutions.
• Strong service ownership and client-focused approach.
• Highly responsible, self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Adaptable, proactive and committed to continuous learning.
• Quality-driven, with a strong focus on documentation and operational handover.
• Security-conscious and governance-aware.
• Collaborative team player with a coaching mindset.
• Comfortable working in a regulated, deadline-driven enterprise environment.