SAP Principal Engineer HF

Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas - to life.Thats right were big but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And thats where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues future colleagues and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age gender marital or civil partnership status colour ethnic or national origin culture religious belief philosophical belief political opinion disability gender identity gender expression or sexual orientation.

This role is the senior technical authority for SAP across Kingfisher. You shape the platforms engineering standards define its long-term technical direction and ensure SAP remains modern scalable secure and aligned to our cloud-first strategy.

You operate across all functional domains (Finance HR Reporting Supply Retail) and platform enablement teams to keep SAP coherent future-ready and integrated with the wider technology landscape.

• Define and embed SAP engineering standards patterns and best practices.
• Own SAPs technical direction and ensure alignment across domains and platform teams.
• Represent SAP in architecture and governance forums to ensure platform coherence.
• Lead the SAP technology roadmap in line with enterprise architecture and cloud strategy.
• Modernise SAP components including integrations GCP optimisation BTP and security.
• Partner with Integration Data Cloud Security and Operations on end-to-end platform fit.
• Track emerging SAP and industry capabilities and assess relevance for Kingfisher.
• Drive API-first event-driven and cloud-ready engineering approaches.
• Ensure solution designs follow agreed technical standards and platform direction.
• Act as senior technical counterpart to Solution Architects and Principal Engineers.
• Partner with Product and Banners to align their plans with SAP strategy.
• Mentor SAP engineers and uplift overall engineering maturity.

• Broad knowledge of SAP modules processes and impacts of configuration/ABAP decisions.
• Strong understanding of SAP technical components and ability to guide technical decisions.
• Solid experience with SAP on cloud infrastructure (ideally GCP).
• Experience shaping SAP technical roadmaps and modernisation initiatives.
• Good understanding of integration patterns and SAPs role in the wider ecosystem.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.
• Clear communicator able to simplify complex topics.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineers.

Be Customer Focused constantly improving our customers experience

• I listen to my customers

• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing

• I am respectful

Be Curious thrive on learning thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas

• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile working with trust pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative

• Done is better than perfect I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship

• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions

• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

At Kingfisher we value the perspectives that any new team members bring and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return we offer an inclusive environment where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

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