SAP Principal Application Director

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a SAP Principal Application Director to lead strategic SAP initiatives within the UK public sector. You’ll partner with senior stakeholders to shape reference architectures, guardrails and scalable solutions that align with governance standards and government expectations.

In this leadership role, you’ll drive modernisation, manage complex integrations and coach multi-disciplinary SAP teams across FICA, PSCD and related modules.

Qualifications

• Track record of architecting and delivering large scale SAP solutions in complex IT landscapes (FI/CA, PSCD or similar).
• Executive-level stakeholder engagement, able to distil complexity into clear choices and influence outcomes.
• Strategic mindset balancing client priorities with risk and commercial realities.
• Deep SAP functional knowledge including S/4HANA, BRIM or related extensions.
• Strong consulting skills with coaching and building high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-stakes architectural discussions with senior client stakeholders, translating requirements into deliverable designs.
• Chair client workshops and governance sessions to shape architecture and guardrails.
• Own solution governance, ensuring security, resilience, performance and compliance.
• Drive risk management and ensure smooth handover to live services with robust, maintainable solutions.
• Provide leadership on quality and risk, anticipating issues and enabling live support.

Skills

Executive stakeholder engagement

Strategic leadership

Public sector experience

Architectural governance

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

Capgemini is looking for a SAP Principal Application Director to join our leading Global SAP capability.

About The Job You’re Considering

Capgemini is looking for a SAP Principal Application Director to join our leading Global SAP capability.

Are you ready to lead at a strategic level on one of the world’s largest SAP implementations? Can you work confidently with senior decision makers to shape solutions that underpin critical UK infrastructure and drive innovation and transformation?

Capgemini is a market leading partner to the UK Public Sector. We are looking for an established SAP Leader to join us in shaping and driving forward the largest Tax and Revenue Management deployments globally.

As we continue to grow, we are seeking senior leaders who combine deep functional expertise with expert client engagement skills. We require expert consultants who can confidently navigate complex public sector IT landscapes to lead major programmes and inspire high performing teams.

This is a leadership role where the successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence the direction of key national services. Partnering directly with senior client stakeholders, you will earn their trust as a strategic advisor and influence outcomes that impact millions of citizens. All the while working in a collaborative environment that invests in your development and leadership journey.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time. For this role it is expected that you will work from the London, Hove or Telford office 3 days per week.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

In this role, you’ll take ownership of building and cultivating relationships with senior stakeholders, providing leadership across the full lifecycle shaping the reference architecture, defining guardrails and design principles, and steering solution options through governance.

Partnering with senior stakeholders, you’ll de risk complex integrations and define the frameworks that enable our team to implement scalable, compliant and performant solutions at pace.

Whilst not mandatory we are particularly interested in people who have worked with S/4HANA SAP TRM, SAP ISU, FI-CA and/or PSCD.

What You’ll Do

• Lead high stakes architectural discussions with senior client stakeholders, translating complex operational, regulatory and platform requirements into clear design decisions and actionable delivery work.
• Chair client workshops and participate in design authority sessions, translating complex requirements into actionable designs.
• Own solution governance and architectural integrity, shaping guardrails, ensuring alignment to clean core principles, enforcing non functional requirements (security, resilience, scalability, performance), and maintaining compliance with client and cross government standards.
• Drive quality and risk management, proactively mitigating delivery risks and ensuring successful handover to live services. Architecting robust solutions, easily manageable in live.
• Provide clear leadership on quality and risk, anticipating delivery issues early and assuring solutions are architected to be resilient, maintainable and optimised for live support
• Develop and coach multi disciplinary SAP teams, strengthening consulting capability across FICA, PSCD and wider SAP modules, instilling strong design practices and consulting expertise.
• Shape long term platform direction, advising senior client leaders on SAP roadmap options, modernisation opportunities, integration strategy, operational efficiency and future transformation priorities.

Your Skills And Experience

• Track record of architecting and delivering large scale solutions ideally across SAP FI CA, PSCD, or comparable platforms within complex IT landscapes.
• Executive-level stakeholder engagement, You are comfortable operating at executive level, able to distil technical complexity into clear choices and influence outcomes under scrutiny.
• Strategic mindset, You think strategically, balancing clients priorities with organisational objectives, risk profiles and commercial realities.
• Deep SAP functional knowledge, Your SAP expertise spans core functional domains and modern capability areas such as S/4HANA, BRIM or BTP extension architectures.
• Strong consulting skills, You bring strong consulting skills, structured facilitation, negotiation, option shaping and solution design. Commitment to developing others, with a track record of coaching and building high-performing teams.
• Professional certifications (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, BTP, BRIM) and accountancy qualifications are advantageous.
• Knowledge of UK statutory financial accounting and reporting requirements, management accounting techniques and integration touch points to other SAP modules.
• Security clearance eligibility and a commitment to public service standards.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role

Please opt in during the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Impactful Experiences

You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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