SAP Principal Systems Engineer - S2P

BBC is hiring an SAP Principal Systems Engineer - S2P in Cardiff and London, United Kingdom. It pays £70k-£80k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on BBC.

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JOB DETAILS

JOB TITLE: SAP Principal Sys Engineer - Procurement
JOB REF:52949
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Technology Group
LOCATION: London or Cardiff Hybrid 2 days per week in office
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £70,000 - £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Tuesday 10th of November 2026*this may be suject to change
INTERVIEWS TO COMMENCE: Week of the 30th of November 2026

We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Interview Process:
1 x 45 min Values and Behaviours competency-based interview with technical questions.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Join the BBC’s Technology & Media Operations team to help shape the future of our corporate systems. In this role, you’ll influence strategy and drive innovation across finance platforms, focusing on SAP and partner solutions. You’ll contribute to delivering and managing complex technical changes and optimising systems to maximise value and align with BBC business goals. If you’re passionate about using technology to create meaningful impact, this is your opportunity to support the evolution of the BBC’s financial systems.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You will be joining a small, established team that work well together in a rapidly developing and transformative space. You will have the opportunity to pick up new skills and Best Practice ways of working which help drive efficiency and Value for Money. The team are currently engaged in an exciting transformation in the Finance and Procurement space, which you will be a contributor to.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

⦁ Acting as a Co-ordinator for Small/Medium technical changes, clarifying requirements submitted by BBC Business Users and managing a change process followed by an outsourced technology provider, including Documentation Review, Technical Build, Testing Cycles, Production Deployment and Post Go-Live support
⦁ Acting as a trusted team member for larger projects with technical change elements, working closely with Project Management and Project Stakeholders to deliver timely, high-quality outcomes
⦁ Building relationships with Internal and External stakeholders, offering support and influence focussed on best practice, achievable goals
⦁ Working with Outsourced Technology partners and Internal Stakeholders to support the resolution of Incidents at varied severity levels
⦁ Defining technology roadmaps, engineering standards, support models, and operational practices for enterprise procurement and supplier-management platforms. Providing technical leadership, mentoring, and governance to engineering teams, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, supportable, scalable, and aligned with long-term business and technology strategies.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
⦁ Extensive experience as a senior technical specialist and subject matter expert across Source-to-Pay (S2P) platforms, including SAP ECC6, SAP S4/Hana, SAP Ariba S2P Solutions, SAP MDG, Icertis CLM and OpenText VIM. Strong technical knowledge of integrations between SAP ECC6/SAP, S/4HANA and associated procurement, finance, reporting, identity, and third-party platforms using APIs, middleware, IDocs, web services, and event-driven architectures
⦁ Deep understanding of S2P business processes and enterprise application integration, including sourcing, contract lifecycle management, supplier onboarding & risk management, purchasing, invoice management, master data governance, and end-to-end procure-to-pay processes. Demonstrable expertise in aligning technology solutions with business processes, industry best practices, and organisational strategy, whilst translating business, user, product, and project requirements into scalable technical solutions.
⦁ Extensive experience reviewing, authoring, and assuring architectural, technical, functional, integration, and support documentation, ensuring alignment with SAP and industry best practices. Proven ability to identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities, while maintaining high standards of quality, consistency, clarity, and completeness across solution artefacts.
⦁ Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and build credibility with senior business leaders, product owners, architects, engineers, suppliers, and delivery teams. Able to communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and audience-appropriate manner, lead requirements discovery activities, evaluate solution options, and provide recommendations aligned to enterprise architecture principles, engineering standards, and strategic objectives.
⦁ Proven ability to lead the resolution of complex technical challenges across large-scale, business-critical S2P platforms and integrations. Comfortable operating in agile, multidisciplinary teams, balancing multiple priorities and competing demands, managing technical risk and conflict, and influencing successful outcomes to ensure solutions are effectively designed, delivered, supported, and continuously improved.

DESIRED:

- Experience delivering or supporting transformations involving some of the following: SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba Sourcing, SAP Ariba Contracts, SAP Ariba Supplier Lifecycle & Performance (SLP), SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, SAP Ariba Guided Buying, SAP Ariba Managed Gateway for Spend & Invoicing (CIG/MGS), supplier master data harmonisation, and procurement process modernisation. - Knowledge of enterprise integration platforms, cloud-based architectures, identity and access management, data governance, cybersecurity principles, and regulatory compliance requirements relevant to procurement and supplier management solutions. - Experience working within complex, highly integrated enterprise environments where multiple procurement, finance, supplier, and contract management platforms must operate as a single end-to-end ecosystem. - Ability to write and communicate complex technology solutions in a clear and coherent way

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

JOB DETAILS

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

DESIRED:

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

How we rate this

SAP Principal Systems Engineer - S2P at BBC rates 28 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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