SAP Technical Architect

Penguin Random House; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000

Job description

Are you ready to bring your expertise and initiative to a dedicated team that values flexibility, agility, and collaboration?

We are seeking a skilled SAP Technical Architect to join our SAP Centre of Excellence within our London and Colchester-based Technology division. In this role, you will support business requirements analysis, ensuring technical feasibility and delivering secure, robust, and sustainable technical solutions. You will work closely with our SAP Solution Architect and the wider SAP Centre of Excellence to maintain a consistent end-to-end process and align implemented solutions with our overall architecture.

The role

Reporting to our Head of SAP Systems, you will play a crucial role in addressing immediate business needs and technical challenges. Your focus will be on SAP systems within the SAP Centre of Excellence, collaborating with various business teams to ensure solutions are robust and supported within our complex application landscape.

This highly collaborative role requires you to align with our Enterprise Architect and SAP Solution Architect on architectural roadmaps, principles, standards, and processes, ensuring that our technical solutions meet strategic and future implementation needs.

Key responsibilities:

1. Research and understand Penguin’s technical requirements.
2. Collaborate with the SAP Solution Architect to align BAU SAP solutions with future projects in the SAP Roadmap.
3. Review and validate technical solutions for seamless integration with existing and future systems.
4. Ensure BAU SAP implementations are compatible with current and future infrastructure plans.
5. Partner with SAP Functional and Technical teams to develop BAU solutions aligned with strategies and standards.
6. Define and document high-level technical proposals.
7. Analyse technical risks and advise on mitigation strategies.
8. Develop a delivery plan for prioritised BAU requirements with our SAP Solution Architect, Functional Analyst, and Business Analyst.
9. Ensure the technical content, integrity, and quality of BAU solutions, collaborating with our SAP teams.
10. Create high-level models to guide technical solution architecture, including component, data-flow, data, deployment, and integration viewpoints.
11. Define actions to close BAU technical gaps and support business objectives.
12. Participate in reviews of designs and technical deliverables to ensure they meet requirements and standards.

What you will bring:

1. Proven experience with new SAP technologies like BTP, CPI, and SAP Build.
2. Experience working in complex and highly integrated application environments.
3. Knowledge of application architecture and design methodologies across multiple platforms.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution, at all levels.
5. Ability to translate technical ideas and designs for various audiences, including Executives.
6. Exposure to multiple SDLC methods.
7. Team player attitude, with proven ability to work effectively within a large, matrix-structured organization.
8. Ability to communicate trade-offs and transactional states with both technical and business teams.

Application instructions

Please apply with your CV by 11:59pm on Sunday 30th March 2025.

Please note we are looking for someone to join the team as soon as possible, but we are also happy to accommodate a reasonable notice period for the right candidate.

We anticipate a two-stage interview process which will include a virtual first-stage interview and in-person second stage interview. We are happy to discuss this further with you throughout the recruitment process.

Circa £70,000 dependent on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus bonus and benefits.

What you can expect from us

Our people are the heart of our business, and we work hard to support a culture of responsibility and recognition.

Our benefits include:

• Financial – income protection, life assurance, childcare allowance
• Wellbeing – healthcare cash plan, critical illness cover, health checks
• Lifestyle – enhanced parental leave, tech scheme, free and discounted books

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important.

Hybrid working is our current practice with time spent working from home or in our London office a minimum of 1 day a week. Time required in the office will vary depending on projects and collaborative working sessions, and we are happy to discuss this during the interview process.

About Penguin

We’re the UK’s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you’ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form. The essential criteria for this role are listed as part of the ‘What you will bring’ section. There may be times when the volume of applications means we cannot take all eligible candidates to interview.

We encourage you to tell us about any reasonable adjustments you may need by emailing [e-mail] . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your request.

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country:United Kingdom

State/Region:London

City: London

Postal Code:SW11 7BW

Job ID: 278496

Date: 18 Mar 2025

Location:

London, LND, GB, SW11 7BW