CPI Lead

Aptimized; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a highly skilled SAP CPI Lead for integration projects. The role involves leading design and development using SAP Cloud Platform Integration, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring enterprise architecture standards. Ideal candidates should have over 8 years in integration and 5 years specifically with SAP CPI. This is a contract position with remote work and required travel to Winnersh for workshops and project milestones.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of integration experience, 5+ years in SAP CPI/Integration Suite.
• Experience with API management, REST/SOAP services, EDI, and message queues.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead integration architecture discussions and drive technical decisions.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to travel 8 days per month to Winnersh as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of integrations using SAP CPI.
• Architect integration patterns across various systems including Salesforce and SAP.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure process integration.
• Develop and review functional and technical specifications for interfaces, APIs, mappings, and transformations.
• Oversee development, testing, and deployment of CPI integrations, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (FI/CO, PS, SD, HR, Procurement) to ensure seamless end to end process integration.
• Troubleshoot integration issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive resolution.
• Support data migration, cutover planning, and post go live stabilization.
• Ensure adherence to SAP best practices, governance standards, and enterprise integration frameworks.

Skills

Integration architecture

API management

SAP CPI

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Communication

Tools

IDocs

SFTP

EDI

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Job description

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Technical Recruiter, Cloud, AI & Infrastructure Hiring Expert

Location: Remote (UK) with required travel 8 days/month to Winnersh, Wokingham, England (Reading area)

Rate: Open

Onsite Expectation: 90% remote, with onsite presence required in Winnersh for integration workshops, architecture reviews, and key project milestones

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled SAP CPI Lead to support integration work across a professional service–focused S/4HANA landscape. This role requires deep expertise in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI), Integration Suite, API management, and hybrid integration patterns. The consultant will lead integration design, oversee development, and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead end to end design and delivery of integrations using SAP CPI / Integration Suite.
• Architect integration patterns across SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Concur, Ariba, Salesforce, and other cloud/on prem systems.
• Facilitate workshops with business, technical, and architecture teams to define integration requirements and data flows.
• Develop and review functional and technical specifications for interfaces, APIs, mappings, and transformations.
• Oversee development, testing, and deployment of CPI integrations, ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (FI/CO, PS, SD, HR, Procurement) to ensure seamless end to end process integration.
• Troubleshoot integration issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive resolution.
• Support data migration, cutover planning, and post go live stabilization.
• Ensure adherence to SAP best practices, governance standards, and enterprise integration frameworks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of integration experience, with 5+ years hands on in SAP CPI / Integration Suite.
• Strong background in API management, REST/SOAP services, IDocs, SFTP, EDI, and message queues.
• Experience integrating S/4HANA with cloud and hybrid systems.
• Ability to lead integration architecture discussions and drive technical decisions.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to travel 8 days per month to Winnersh as required.

Ideal Profile

• Senior CPI consultant who can own integration architecture, lead development teams, and operate independently.
• Comfortable working in fast moving, multi system environments with complex data flows.
• Prior consulting or professional services industry experience is highly preferred.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Contract

Job function: Consulting

Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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