SAP Principal Engineer H/F

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.

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.

What's the job?

• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 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.

Be Customer Focused
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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
• I am respectful

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

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.