SAP Consultant in Cardiff

Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 (depending on experience) + Benefits

Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

We're partnering with a global organisation currently investing heavily in its enterprise technology landscape and SAP transformation programme. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SAP Consultant to join a growing international IT team supporting mission-critical SAP environments across multiple business units.

This role combines hands-on SAP BASIS expertise with platform governance, supplier management, and technical leadership responsibilities. You'll play a key role in ensuring the stability, security, performance, and continuous improvement of a complex SAP estate while supporting strategic transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

SAP Platform Operations

• Manage and oversee the operational health of SAP environments.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity.
• Support upgrades, patching, maintenance activities, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure effective transport management and release governance.
• Act as the primary technical liaison for managed SAP services and cloud-hosted environments.
• Monitor service delivery performance and contractual SLA compliance.
• Coordinate escalations and drive issue resolution with external partners.
• Manage relationships with SAP and third-party service providers.
• Challenge and review proposed technical solutions and recommendations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, development, and business teams to support operational and project requirements.

Security, Compliance & Disaster Recovery

• Ensure SAP platforms remain secure, compliant, and audit-ready.
• Support patch management, system hardening, and security best practices.
• Coordinate backup, recovery, disaster recovery testing, system refreshes, and client administration activities.
• Drive platform optimisation initiatives and reduce recurring incidents.
• Troubleshoot performance issues, system errors, and technical defects.
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, integrations, and transformation programmes.

Required Experience

• 5+ years' experience within SAP BASIS administration and support.
• Strong experience supporting SAP landscapes including S/4HANA and NetWeaver platforms.
• Experience working within managed service or cloud-hosted SAP environments.
• Knowledge of SAP HANA databases.
• Experience supporting Linux and/or Windows operating systems.
• Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or similar cloud platforms.
• Experience with SAP tools including: SUM, STMS, Solution Manager, Cloud ALM
• Strong understanding of change, release, and transport management.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and service providers.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and service governance frameworks.
• Experience within large-scale international SAP environments.
• SAP certifications.
• Experience supporting SAP transformation programmes.

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to work effectively within production and business-critical environments.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on service improvement and operational excellence.

What's on Offer?

• Competitive salary of between £70,000 - £80,000 depending on experience
• Cardiff based Hybrid working
• Opportunity to work within a large-scale SAP environment.
• Exposure to major SAP modernisation and transformation initiatives.
• Collaborative international team environment.
• Long-term career progression within a growing technology function.
• Potential relocation allowence

Please note we're unable to provide sponsorship opportunities at this time.