Lead Applications Engineer (SAP)

Job Description

As our new Lead Applications Engineer (SAP), you’ll take a hands-on role leading engineering across a portfolio of SAP-aligned systems within a defined business domain. This role is key to strengthening technical leadership, improving consistency in how our applications are engineered and supported, and creating clear ownership across a growing estate.

You’ll support the design, delivery and ongoing stability of services, ensuring they are secure, reliable and well run, while enabling continuous improvement. Working closely with domain teams, platform services and our central Product function, you’ll help bring structure and consistency to engineering delivery.

This is a hands-on position, combining technical expertise with leadership, where you’ll play a vital part in how we build, evolve and support our platforms.

• Lead delivery across SAP and integrated systems within your domain
• Contribute to solution design, ensuring systems are scalable, maintainable and aligned to SAP principles
• Apply and maintain engineering standards and ways of working
• Plan and deliver change across the domain, ensuring safe, structured releases
• Work with Product teams and stakeholders to translate priorities into deliverable outcomes
• Ensure solutions are production-ready, supportable and aligned to best practice
• Maintain the stability, performance and reliability of services
• Collaborate with Service and Assurance teams to enable smooth handovers and effective support models
• Improve monitoring, documentation and knowledge sharing
• Provide day-to-day technical leadership, support and guidance to engineers
• Develop capability across SAP and associated platforms
• Promote a culture of ownership, quality and continuous improvement
• Manage dependencies across systems to support cohesive delivery
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders, Product and Engineering teams to deliver successful outcomes

• Strong experience working with SAP and integrated enterprise systems
• A track record of supporting delivery of change within service-critical environments
• Good understanding of system integration, interfaces and enterprise platforms
• Experience mentoring or supporting other engineers in a collaborative team environment
• Ability to balance live service support with delivery of change
• Strong organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confidence working across teams and managing competing priorities
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders
• Exposure to HR/Payroll, Finance, Customer, Product or Supply Chain systems (desirable)
• Experience working in governed or regulated environments (desirable)

Booker is the UK's leading food & drink wholesaler. We are privileged to serve independent retailers, caterers and small businesses, from locations across the country. We operate over 190 cash and carry branches, 8 distribution centres, 5 Best Food Logistics sites, as well as 6 support centre locations across the UK.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) at Booker means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Booker and Best, we always welcome conversations about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers; some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we may be able to support you.

We’re proud that Booker is a Disability Confident Committed Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support you can expect, please contact recruitment@bookergroup.com

Please note

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, and driving roles.

On the occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date in order for us to manage all of the applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

*Booker Group is part of Tesco plc, however, is operated separately from the core Tesco business and as such the benefits offered will be different from those offered at Tesco*

For more information about us please visit www.bookergroupjobs.co.uk