At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the implementation of a SAS solution, ensuring quality and timely delivery.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on innovative systems development.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional growth, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to work under pressure and drive change across teams.
- Why this job: Be the key player in transforming business needs into successful tech solutions.
- Qualifications: Experience in system implementations and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We are seeking an experienced Systems Development, Integration & Test Lead to deliver a key SAS product implementation. This role will own end-to-end delivery, ensuring the supplier meets agreed scope, quality, and timelines while fully addressing business needs. You will act as the bridge between business stakeholders, internal technical teams, and the SAS vendor to ensure successful integration, testing, and deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end implementation of a SAS solution, from design through to go-live.
- Ensure business requirements are clearly defined, prioritised, and delivered.
- Own the delivery plan, including milestones, risks, and dependencies.
- Act as the primary point of accountability for supplier performance, holding them to agreed commitments.
- Oversee system integration, ensuring seamless data flow across platforms.
- Define and drive the test strategy (including system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and performance testing, ensuring quality standards are met).
- Manage defects and ensure issues are resolved ahead of release.
- Provide clear reporting and governance, escalating risks and issues as needed.
- Engage functional subject matter experts to ensure their function needs are met, ensuring alignment and transparency throughout delivery.
- Migrate processes and data from one system to another.
- The candidate will be seen as the SME for this SAS solution going forwards.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience delivering complex system implementations (ideally SAS or similar platforms).
- Strong background in systems integration and testing.
- Experience managing third-party suppliers/vendors and holding them accountable.
- Solid understanding of system development lifecycle and testing methodologies.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Identifies and resolves technical, operational and organisational problems.
Desirable
- Experience with SAS platforms (e.g., Planisware, Teamcentre).
- Knowledge of data integration, ETL, or analytics environments.
- Experience in automotive or equivalent industries.
Personal Attributes
- Strong sense of ownership and delivery focus.
- Confident challenging suppliers and stakeholders.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented.
- Experience working, or willingness to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Possess good communication skills, oral and written, enabling them to interact with a wide variety of team members at various levels of the company hierarchy & drive change across a matrixed organisation.
- Self-motivated, with a willingness to learn.
Stakeholder Management: Work with engineering, procurement, manufacturing and wider cross-functional programme teams to ensure continuous improvement across all aspects of programmes delivery and methodology.
Systems Development, Integration & Test Lead employer: Gerrell & Hard Ltd.
Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, where as a Systems Development, Integration & Test Lead, you will play a pivotal role in delivering impactful SAS solutions. Our supportive work culture fosters professional growth through continuous learning opportunities and encourages employees to take ownership of their projects. Located in a vibrant area, we offer a dynamic environment that promotes teamwork and creativity, making it an excellent place for those seeking meaningful and rewarding employment.
