S/4 Development Lead

S/4 Development Lead Field Based Salary range £70,000 - £80,000 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 About the Role As the S/4 Development Lead, you will be responsible for defining, governing, and managing the custom development lifecycle, clean core strategies, and extension standards across our delivery portfolio. Reporting to the SAP Head of Technical Services, you will ensure our custom development meets rigid quality benchmarks and follows modern SAP extensibility frameworks, while mentoring our team of developers to drive technical excellence.  As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

• Enforce modern SAP extensibility guidelines (In-App and Side-by-Side extensions) to maintain a Clean Core strategy across Public and Private Cloud environments.
• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of Technical Developers, driving technical upskilling and code quality standards.
• Support the presales capability by reviewing technical requirements, designing custom technical solution proofs-of-concept, and providing accurate development effort estimations.
• Enforce the practical application of SAP Activate tools, utilising Cloud ALM to govern developer task assignments and deployment tracking.
• Oversee day-to-day developer technical mapping, ensuring code designs cleanly map back to our high-level business process frameworks.
• Support the SAP Head of Technical Services by reviewing complex technical design documents and driving automated testing framework alignment.

About You 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 SAP development experience, with a proven track record leading technical teams or developer practices.
• Deep expertise in SAP Activate Methodology, with relevant certifications in ABAP Development, SAP BTP, or Cloud ALM preferred.
• A proven track record of architecting extension strategies using modern frameworks 
• Practical experience using modern developer profiling tools and automated ABAP test cockpits.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex code architecture into clear, business-value concepts for project stakeholders.
• Ability to travel nationally and occasionally internationally to support key workshops and project kickoffs.

About Unipart 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. Keywords: SAP Technical Lead, ABAP Development Lead, SAP Development Manager, Technical Architect, SAP BTP Specialist, Software Development Manager, SAP Systems Developer, Development Practice Lead