People Systems Platform Owner

Laing O'Rourke; Dartford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international engineering and construction company seeks a Platform Owner for People Systems (SAP) to oversee the design and evolution of platform capabilities. This role involves stakeholder engagement, managing platform improvements, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Ideal candidates will have extensive IT experience, particularly with SAP systems, and a strong foundation in Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT Systems experience with operational roles.
• Experience in managing a large IT platform.
• Knowledge of design principles and Agile methodology.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership to design, build, and evolve platform capabilities.
• Understand and engage with customers to identify their requirements.
• Manage vendors/suppliers that support or integrate with the platform.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Platform Management

Agile Methodology

Education

Degree in IT / Computing

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

Job description

Platform Owner – People Systems (SAP)

Platforms: People Systems (E.g. SAP, eArcu, CultureAmp)

Do you hold accountability for the design, build and evolution of People Platform capabilities? Laing O'Rourke has an opportunity for a Platform Owner to manage their platform as a product to be consumed by product teams. You will align platform capabilities with product team requirements, business objectives, and the enterprise architecture vision road map.

The role will see you mainly working on SAP based systems like SuccessFactors playing a key role in the management and strategy of HR technology ecosystem. Can you support a wide stakeholder group to build a better platform for the future? Then this is the role for you. As a key person to build relationships, facilitate and drive alignment. Do you have the ability to connect with stakeholders and prioritise decisions? If you do, then we encourage this skill to build networks and influence decisions to maxmise the success of the platform.

Responsibilities include:

• End-to-end ownership to design, build, and evolve platform capabilities.
• Understand and engage with customers of the platform (often product teams) to identify, anticipate, and satisfy their requirements.
• Maximize utilization of the platform in line with the enterprise architecture vision and roadmap.
• Promote and market the benefits and value delivered by the platform.
• Provide and maintain the tools and standards to deliver.
• Maintain platform improvement backlog/roadmap to satisfy customer needs.
• Create a platform environment that enables others to autonomously develop and deliver business value.
• Manage vendors/suppliers that support or integrate with the platform.
• Develop and maintain the platform including releases, features and tools.
• Monitor integrations and work with other internal business systems.
• Oversee technical governance and work with the vendor for development and configuration.

Acting as the keeper and communicator of the platform vision you will understand what the platform offers, define the roadmap and ensure the health and security of it.

Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:

• 8+ years in IT Systems experience with experience in operational and customer facing roles.
• Degree qualified or similar qualification in IT / computing
• SAP systems experience (SuccessFactors desirable) including architecture, modules and features.
• Experience of working in technical product teams.
• Management of a large IT platform (People Platform desired).
• Knowledge of design principles and Agile methodology.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

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