Senior SAP Developer

Babcock International; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension & life assurance

Digital GP & health checks

Employee share scheme

Volunteer days & Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Senior SAP Developer to lead SAP development and solution delivery across defence, aerospace and engineering sectors.

You will join a collaborative team delivering SAP enhancements, ensuring quality, governance and documentation while working in a hybrid UK setup with occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Strong SAP background in implementation and support.
• Experience with SAP Fiori/UI5 and ABAP-based development.
• Ability to design processes and data flows and document them clearly.

Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist-level development, configuration and support for SAP to SLAs.
• Create and implement SAP solutions for projects using established standards.
• Ensure development work is tested and documented to a high standard.
• Update technical documentation for each task.
• Identify emerging SAP standards and best practices.

Skills

SAP development

OData

CDS

ABAP

WebDynPro

Workflow

Fiori

UI5

S/4HANA

BTP

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 26,000 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: 05/10/2026