Principal SAP Engineer

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're 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 that's 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.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

This role is the senior technical authority for SAP across Kingfisher. You shape the platform's 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and embed SAP engineering standards, patterns and best practices.
• Own SAP's 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.

Qualifications

• 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 SAP's 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.

Behaviours

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

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

What we offer. Private Health Care

Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days' Holiday

25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount

20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance

x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Bonus

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save

Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.

Application Process Step 1: Application

Send in your application via our Kingfisher Careers website.

Step 2: Review

A member of the Talent Acquisition team will then review your application let you know if you have progressed to the next stage of the process.

Step 3: Interview 1

You'll then have a telephone interview/one to one conversation with a recruiter.

Step 4: Interview 2

As you progress, you'll be invited to attend a face to face or virtual interview.

Step 5: Feedback

Your recruiter will be in contact with feedback and, if successful, the details of your job offer!