SAP Basis Lead Engineer E3.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior SAP Basis Engineer to join the Core Banking Enablement value stream within Core Banking CIO and lead the evolution of Nationwide’s business-critical SAP platforms. You’ll combine deep hands-on SAP Basis and HANA expertise with technical and people leadership, shaping platform direction, driving transformation initiatives and developing a high-performing engineering team.

You’ll lead major initiatives across our SAP estate, including migrations, upgrades, platform modernisation and the transition from SAP ECC to S/4HANA. You’ll provide technical leadership across SAP Basis and HANA database engineering, ensuring our platforms remain secure, resilient, high-performing and able to support Nationwide’s critical Core Banking services.

As a trusted technical authority, you’ll influence architecture and engineering decisions, establish technical standards and improve how platform change is designed and delivered. You’ll champion automation, infrastructure as code, observability and standardised engineering practices, helping deliver change more safely, consistently and efficiently across multiple SAP landscapes.

Alongside your technical responsibilities, you’ll line manage and develop a team of SAP Basis/HANA engineers. Through a player-coach approach, you’ll provide direction, coaching and technical guidance while creating an environment focused on accountability, collaboration and engineering excellence.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, Bournemouth, Northampton or London office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here. 

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.