Technical Analyst

As a Senior Technical Analyst, you'll play a key role in shaping how SAP supports business processes, service delivery, and operational performance across the organisation. Acting as the link between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, you'll translate business needs into clear requirements and practical solutions that deliver measurable value. Working closely with platform owners, engineers, delivery partners, and business stakeholders, you'll help ensure SAP capabilities are used effectively, processes are simplified, and technology investments remain aligned to long‑term business objectives.

• Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and define business outcomes.
• Translate business requirements into clear solution options, platform enhancements, and prioritised delivery plans.
• Collaborate with SAP engineers and delivery teams to design solutions that maximise standard SAP functionality and minimise unnecessary customisation.
• Support the full delivery lifecycle, from discovery and requirements definition through to testing, deployment, and operational handover.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, and optimise business processes across SAP and associated manufacturing systems.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps, capability assessments, process models, governance activities, and future‑state designs.
• Ensure platform changes support operational readiness and can be effectively adopted by the business.
• Promote continuous improvement and support the ongoing evolution of SAP capabilities across the organisation.
  Strong experience working with SAP ECC6 and/or S/4
  
  HANA environments.
• Proven expertise across key SAP modules such as SD, QM and PP.
• Experience delivering SAP configuration, implementations, upgrades and enhancements.
• Solid understanding of SAP technical components including ABAP, interfaces and custom development.
• Experience translating business requirements into effective technology solutions and platform improvements.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to balance business needs and technical considerations.
• Understanding of enterprise applications, integrations, data flows, security considerations and platform dependencies.
• Experience working with stakeholders across both business and IT functions.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and documentation skills.

• Experience with additional SAP modules including WM, MM, PM, DMS, EPP, MPS, FI/CO or CATS.
• Experience working within manufacturing, engineering, construction or other project‑based organisations.
• Knowledge of SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Fiori and modern SAP architecture concepts.
• Experience with SAP integration technologies, APIs, middleware and enterprise integration patterns.
• Exposure to Manufacturing Systems, MES, shop‑floor technology or operational technology environments.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, platform modernisation or large‑scale SAP programmes.
• Relevant SAP certifications or business analysis qualifications.
  Are you looking for an opportunity to shape the future of SAP within a business that is transforming the way technology supports complex projects and operations? We're looking for a Senior Technical Analyst to help drive business improvement, platform modernisation, and the effective use of SAP and related manufacturing systems.

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