SAP S/4 HANA Tech Lead

SAP S/4 HANA Tech Lead

Salary: Circa £100,000 per annum

Location: Swindon or London

You will be a tower lead responsible for all S/4 HANA projects for the SAP Platform which acts as a central team servicing all CIOs within MTD (Member Technology Delivery) providing product architecture roadmap, reliability, best practice adoption and resilience. This role is within the MTD function, part of the wider COO organisation, which is responsible for delivering IT solutions which have our customers and colleagues at heart.

You will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of the agreed roadmap that supports our SAP landscape across the organization. You will work closely with Principal engineer and architecture team to provide thought leadership to our Engineering teams.

This role will drive a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on building technical capability (including people) across all disciplines. Across MTD, we have an important journey ahead of us to build and maintain our position in the market and respond to changing customer needs, guided by the strategic pillars of More Rewarding Relationship, Simply Brilliant Service and Focused, Fit and Fast. This is a pivotal role within the MTD Engineering team, who rely on this role for support in planning and strategic thinking to drive forward the delivery agenda.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join at team at a time of real change, where you will be at the heart of driving this agenda, and able to make a real impact. The successful candidate will have a broad range of experience of driving complex modernisation agendas to adopt and exploit both on-prem and cloud native technologies in a regulated environment.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you\’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you\’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, Northampton or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and manage projects related to SAP Basis and HANA, such as system upgrades, implementations, and migrations
• Lead and take responsibility for S/4 HANA and HANA DB support function with a potential to expand the team that is currently owned by vendor partners.
• You will be expected to take accountability for the lifecycle of the SAP Platform technology stack, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to technical teams, guiding them on engineering principles, design patterns, and implementation techniques.
• Lead the ongoing evolution of the SAP engineering capability (both within SAP Platform and the wider Society) to ensure that it continuously improves and can meet the ongoing needs of the Society.
• Champion new SAP technologies, methodologies, and innovations, including SAP S/4HANA, BTP, SAP Fiori, and cloud-based solutions, to enhance efficiency and agility.
• Provide guidance and direction to a team of engineers to create fit for purpose artefacts that meet requirements of the organisation and fit the technology strategy
• Provide technical expertise at parts and/or all stages of the delivery lifecycle, including providing technical leadership and consultancy to stakeholders
• Participate in strategic planning, architectural decisions and collaboration opportunities related to SAP systems
• Install, configure, and maintain SAP systems, including SAP HANA databases
• People manage and nurture a team of engineers to build a strong high performing team
• Organise the work of the team relying on technical knowledge to create efficiencies and give appropriate direction

About you

We need somebody with:

• Extensive experience in large scale SAP transformations, including expertise in SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Fiori, and associated technologies.
• You will have a career background that has evolved through a technical discipline (preferably through implementation and design) in the network space towards a leadership role. You will demonstrably have the confidence to make decisions and the humility to change course when needed.
• Experience of leading support function of SAP S/4 HANA systems and applications is highly desirable.
• Deep applied and proven experience in leading complex SAP transformation programmes within a highly regulated environment, preferably in the financial services or banking sector.
• Demonstrated experience in adopting and implementing emerging SAP technologies with a mix of both on-prem and cloud solutions.
• You’ll be a constant learner, open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.
• Experience of working on SAP applications in Banking and financial services including SAP-Fioneer, payments, core-banking and accounting is highly desirable.
• Experience working with, and developing solutions that span both on-premise and cloud hosted technologies.
• You’ll have broad technical knowledge across SAP BASIS, Security, cloud technologies, integration technologies such as:
• Hands-on experience of SAP Solution Manager, Change and Release Management (ChaRM) and other SAP tools
• Data integration patterns and tools including both rea-time and batch interfaces with external systems
• Core SRE principles with focus on capacity modelling and observability
• Experience with incident management and quick issue resolution working with L2 and L3 teams

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight – This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better – This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done – This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.