Head of SAP Technical Services in Oxford

Salary range between £90,000 and £100,000 per annum, car/car allowance, plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme.

As the Head of SAP Technical Services, you will provide leadership for the technical architecture, development, systems integration, and infrastructure operations of the SAP practice. You will be a technical visionary who demystifies complex architectures and confidently presents our technical prowess, ‘Clean Core’ strategies, and innovation roadmap to client IT leadership.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Lead a team of Technical Architects to ensure designs leverage the most appropriate, cutting-edge SAP technologies.
• Manage the development lifecycle—spanning ABAP, Fiori, Java, and BTP/Cloud teams—ensuring strictly enforced Clean Core coding standards.
• Oversee complex data migration strategies and manage Integration Architects utilising SAP Integration Suite / CPI for connectivity.
• Lead our Basis and Security teams, overseeing system installations, permission frameworks, and cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Host technical webinars and participate in expert panel discussions to champion our innovation roadmap.
• Present robust technical architectures, security frameworks, and migration roadmaps to Enterprise Architects and CIOs of prospective customers.

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Essential

• Extensive technical experience in the SAP ecosystem, with a proven track record of technical leadership or management capacity.
• Comprehensive, practical experience enforcing SAP's Clean Core strategy using SAP BTP, Fiori, and modern ABAP.
• A robust background in SAP Basis operations, security design, cloud hosting infrastructure, and integration middlewares like SAP Integration Suite / CPI.
• The ability to travel nationally and internationally.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to navigate both technical jargon with engineering teams and high-level strategy with non-technical senior stakeholders.

We are a supply chain performance improvement partner. We Design, Make, Move, and Improve components in our customers’ supply chains, keeping their operations and assets moving and working better, for longer. Through our commitment to continuously driving operational efficiencies, we improve performance - saving time, cost, and carbon. Our ambition is to be the driving force behind efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

We believe that a great workplace is one where you can bring your whole self to work. Our recruitment process is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and based entirely on merit. We define merit through a combination of technical skills and the core behaviours that help our people thrive at Unipart. We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of background or circumstances. We are committed to a policy of equal opportunity that exceeds our statutory obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and subsequent legislation. Whether it’s your age, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, family status, or any other characteristic that makes you ‘you’ - it is your talent and potential that we value most.

Adjustments for you: We want you to perform at your best. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know. We are here to support you.

Direct applications only. No agencies.