SAP Technical Lead in Reading

Job description

SAP Tech Lead (Hybrid) - Reading

As a SAP Technical Lead, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the design, development and implementation of SAP ECC & S/4HANA technical solutions to ensure they align with the company’s business objectives and IT strategy. This is a technical delivery lead role for SAP ECC and S/4HANA - ABAP, OData, Fiori & BTP requiring a mix of technical expertise, leadership abilities, team management skills and business acumen to lead development strategy, solution design in collaboration with implementation partners.

You will be responsible for the success of SAP implementations and ensure the technical quality, governance, and operationalisation of the solutions. This position requires deep experience with SAP applications, including expert-level knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and integrations with SAP Cloud applications like Ariba, SuccessFactors, and Service Cloud.

As a technical expert, you will be willing to assist the development of others whilst also developing your own knowledge. You will ensure best practice is followed and look for opportunities for improvement.

What you’ll be doing as a SAP Technical Lead

Design & Development:

• Lead the SAP ECC & S/4HANA (ABAP, Fiori/UI5, BTP) technical strategy, solution architecture and development governance to ensure quality, consistency and efficiency across all SAP landscapes.
• Collaborate with BTP Integration teams to drive the technical design and delivery of SAP Cloud Integration projects involving Ariba, SuccessFactors, Salesforce and other external systems using API-based architecture.
• Lead the technical migration approach for the ECC → S/4HANA transformation including custom code remediation, simplification items, extensibility strategy and readiness for SAP upgrades. · Proven expertise in Interface technologies (ABAP Proxies, REST, SOAP, IDOC, RFC, OData) and experience with CPI / BTP IS.
• Champion S/4HANA clean core principles by promoting in-app and side-by-side extensibility patterns, RAP model adoption, and reduction of custom code footprint during migration.
• Analyse and troubleshoot BTP integration latency, performance and throughput issues across ECC, S/4HANA, Fiori and cloud-based extensions, ensuring robust monitoring and error handling.
• Design and implement Fiori/UI5 applications and modern user experiences leveraging SAP Fiori design guidelines, RAP model (good to have), and aligned UI extensibility practices.
• As a technical design authority, provide thought leadership to partner ABAP development teams (ECC + S/4HANA) including design reviews, coding standards, reusable framework creation, and performance optimization.

Platform Support:

• Advise technical teams on performance, scalability, versioning, reliability, monitoring, and other operational concerns of SAP solutions.
• Support stakeholders in troubleshooting with existing solutions.
• Accountability for the management of any production incidents or problems.
• Document and direct the handover of solutions into business-as-usual (BAU) operations to support a robust service transition.
• Own and manage deployments of new releases to the production environment.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify areas of continuous improvement and create effective solutions to implement them.
• Become a key contributor and advocate of SAP best practices and frameworks in projects and programs.
• Continually reviewing the development and approaches to ensure base standards are consistent and the latest platform features are being used.
• Assist in reviewing the existing SAP landscape, increase reuse and expand our monitoring capabilities.

Team planning and review:

• Participate in team DevOps ceremonies (sprint planning, show and tell, sprint review etc), providing valued input and being an excellent team player.

Base Location: Reading - Hybrid

Working Pattern: 36 Hours

What you should bring to the role

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:

• Extensive experience of SAP ABAP development experience on ECC and S/4HANA including enhancements, performance tuning, BAdIs, user exits, interfaces, proxy frameworks and IS-U ABAP preferred.
• Proven hands-on experience in S/4HANA ABAP including CDS Views, AMDP, OData services, S/4HANA extensibility (in-app & side-by-side), and RAP (preferred)
• Expertise in different components/capabilities of SAP Cloud applications – SAP Ariba, SuccessFactors, Service Cloud.
• Strong experience in leveraging standard SAP content to build solutions for inbound and outbound interfaces between SAP and Non-SAP applications (ABAP Proxies, REST, SOAP, IDOC, RFC, OData)
• Strong exposure to SAP S/4HANA technical migration / brownfield or greenfield transformation, including custom code remediation and simplification. Preferred E2E S4HANA upgrade experience.
• Experience in Fiori/UI5 development, end-to-end custom app design, and extensibility of standard Fiori apps.
• Strong experience in designing reusable assets, components, standards, frameworks, and processes to support and facilitate SAP projects.
• Experience of working within a DevOps environment and the related processes and controls.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Reading

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

14-11-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English