Senior SAP Developer

Nuclear Inst; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock in the UK is seeking a Senior SAP Developer to drive our digital transformation across defence, aerospace and engineering. The role offers flexible UK location with hybrid working and occasional travel.

You will deliver specialist SAP development and configuration, ensure delivery to SLAs, and contribute to governance, documentation and best practices within a collaborative team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, maintain high coding standards, update technical docs, and

Qualifications

• Strong SAP background in implementation and support.
• Knowledge of OData, CDS, ABAP, WebDynPro, Fiori and UI5.
• Experience designing business process diagrams and data flows.
• Ability to obtain UK SC security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Delivering specialist-level development, configuration and functional support for SAP solutions to SLAs.
• Creating and implementing SAP solutions for projects using established standards and governance.
• Ensuring development work is completed, tested and documented to a high standard.
• Updating technical documentation for each task processed.
• Identifying and suggesting emerging standards and best practices for SAP services.

Skills

SAP expertise

OData

CDS

ABAP

WebDynPro

Workflow

Fiori

UI5

S/4 Hana

FI

HCM

SCM

Job description

Job Title: Senior SAP Developer
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61128

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior SAP Developer, near your preferred Babcock UK location including Bristol, Devonport, Leicester, London, Portsmouth, Rosyth or Warrington.

The role

As a Senior SAP Developer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our digital transformation, helping to deliver innovative SAP solutions that support critical operations across defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a collaborative team that’s driving continuous improvement and ensuring our SAP estate delivers real business value.

• Delivering specialist-level development, configuration and functional support for SAP solutions to agreed SLAs
• Creating and implementing SAP solutions for projects using established standards and governance
• Ensuring development work is completed, tested and documented to a high standard
• Updating technical documentation for each task processed
• Identifying and suggesting emerging standards and best practices for SAP services

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, can be based at any of our main UK locations and provides hybrid working arrangements, with occasional travel.

Essential experience of the Senior SAP Developer

• Strong SAP background in implementation and support.
• Demonstrable and strong knowledge of OData, CDS, ABAP, WebDynPro, Workflow, Fiori and UI5.
• Experience designing business process diagrams and data flows within relevant written documentation.
• Highly beneficial to have experience of working with S/4 Hanna and BTP.
• Broader knowledge of SAP functional areas such as FI, HCM, SCM, PM, PP, PS, MM, IM and WM.

Qualifications for the Senior SAP Developer

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 29/10/2026

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