Tech Principal - SAP & AI Delivery, Finance Technology

Job Description

About the role

What you’ll be doing

1. Owns and leads the engineering organisation's ability to deliver high quality outcomes, on time and on budget and implementing means of bringing measurability as well as predictability to the engineering organisation's capabilities
2. Sets the technical direction regarding technical decisions, technology choices and architecture for a wide range of high-performance products, capabilities, and platforms, effectively balancing short-term impact with long-term transformation
3. Operates as an SME within own field of expertise, resolving the most complex strategic issues, across wider industry and/or specific sectors, and responsible for developing bespoke or leading edge, technically complex solutions (e.g., relating to new, un-tested technology and/or large-scale impact of products)
4. Leads the regular development of an ambitious and compelling technical roadmap to meet the needs of the business, engineering team, and partner teams
5. Designs engineering and operational excellence initiatives, implementing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement
6. Acts as a point of escalation for debugging and troubleshooting the most complex technical problems throughout the development process
7. Drives an engineering culture that fosters innovation and creativity while delivering high quality products with predictability and reliability
8. Takes an expert technical advisory role in the software engineering profession, implementing the technical vision and the pursuit of innovations regarding new technologies, platforms and application
9. Defines new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems
10. Researches, designs and writes new software and performs deep dive data analysis, to identify issues and areas of improvements
11. Drives the evaluation and implementation of high-quality tools and automation processes to support continuous delivery and developer productivity
12. Defines new architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale enterprise systems to implement
13. Mentors and coaches experienced professionals to develop current and future team capabilities and ensure performance
14. Leads the implementation of continuous improvement opportunities to improve the software engineering team processes

Essential Skills / Experience

• Deep SAP Finance expertise: Mastery of S/4HANA Finance, FI/CO, AP, AR, GL, Controlling, Treasury (FSCM), and adjacent Finance platforms — with proven delivery as Solution Architect or Principal Consultant on S/4HANA transformation programmes.
• SAP AI & BTP fluency: Strong working knowledge of SAP Joule, SAP AI Foundation, SAP AI Core, Agentic AI on SAP BTP, and SAP Business Data Cloud — capable of architecting Finance AI scenarios and leading PoC-to-production delivery.
• Agentic AI literacy: Understanding of multi-agent orchestration, A2A/MCP interaction patterns, and how Joule agents automate end-to-end Finance workflows — the ability to translate this into business language for Finance stakeholders.
• Business case and investment planning: Ability to translate technology opportunity into structured, commercially rigorous investment proposals — from financial modelling and benefit quantification through to executive sign-off.
• Stakeholder gravitas and communication: Ability to engage CFO-level Finance leaders, Digital Directors, SAP account teams, and third-party vendors with equal confidence — translating complex AI and architecture decisions into clear, action-oriented business narratives.

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Hands-on experience with SAP Signavio for process mining and business process redesign as part of a Reinvent programme.
• Working knowledge of SAP Business Data Cloud and its Finance Intelligence, Spend Intelligence, and Cloud ERP Intelligence intelligent applications.
• Exposure to LLMOps/MLOps pipelines — model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management in an enterprise SAP context.

Our Package

• An annual on-target bonus of up to 15% (personal and company multipliers)
• Annual car allowance
• Private healthcare for you and your family
• BT Pension scheme: minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%.
• EE Broadband – from £10/month for 150Mb and £20 for 900Mb – lower than any other provider.
• EE Mobile – Save 50% on Mobile & SIM-only plans or pay just £10/month for an EE SIM.
• EE TV – Enjoy premium content like Netflix and TNT Sports, with the flexibility to swap packages monthly, starting from just £10/month.
• Combine Broadband, TV, and Mobile from just £30/month and unlock extra savings when you take both Broadband and Mobile.
• There’s also great support for working parents, including pay whilst on maternity, adoptive, and paternity leave.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service.
• Volunteering days, so you can give back to your local community.
• Brand new electric vehicle salary sacrifice arrangement, known as ‘My EV’.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.