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ERP Development Lead

Building a sustainable tomorrow

At BAM, we are committed to building a sustainable tomorrow through innovation, collaboration, and investment in digital capability. As part of our enterprise-wide ERP transformation, we are strengthening our technical leadership to support the delivery of a robust, integrated, and future‑ready digital platform.

We are now recruiting an ERP Development Lead to play a pivotal role in coordinating and governing development activity across our ERP landscape.

Making Possible

The ERP Development Lead is a key role within BAM’s ERP programme, providing leadership and coordination across all development activities spanning SAP S/4HANA and non‑S/4 applications.

During the current design and delivery phases, you will ensure that technical designs, functional specifications, integrations, and development requirements are fully understood, documented, and ready for sprint‑based delivery. You will act as the central coordination point for ERP development, ensuring delivery is technically robust, aligned to architectural direction, and delivered in line with agreed governance, sprint plans, and release cycles.

Making possible

Development planning & coordination

  • Lead and coordinate ERP programme development activities across SAP S/4HANA and non‑S/4 systems.
  • Manage development schedules aligned to sprint plans, release timelines, and technical milestones.
  • Coordinate workloads across internal developers and external solution integrators.
  • Ensure development items are appropriately estimated, prioritised, and resourced.

Technical oversight & governance

  • Maintain oversight of custom developments, enhancements, interfaces, reports, workflows, and integrations.
  • Ensure adherence to SAP development standards, naming conventions, and quality assurance processes.
  • Support the definition and maintenance of development guidelines and DevOps practices.
  • Participate in technical and design reviews to ensure feasibility, maintainability, and architectural alignment.

Collaboration & stakeholder management

  • Work closely with functional workstreams to clarify requirements and refine user stories.
  • Collaborate with Release Management on environment planning, deployment sequencing, and cutover activities.
  • Support testing teams during system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and defect resolution.
  • Act as the primary escalation point for ERP development-related issues.

Team leadership & resource management

  • Coordinate and coach internal development resources, supporting skills development and capacity planning.
  • Manage external systems integrator development teams, ensuring quality delivery and adherence to scope and standards.
  • Facilitate technical forums including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and development review sessions.

Risk, issue & compliance management

  • Proactively identify development risks and issues, ensuring mitigation plans are defined and actioned.
  • Ensure compliance with IT security, data governance, and audit requirements.
  • Oversee the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, including build specifications and support materials.

Your team

To be based from any UK & I office 

What’s in it for you?

We are committed to our employees and offer strong competitive salaries along with benefits such as:

8% pension contribution
Private Health Insurance
Dental Plan
26 days annual leave, incremental with years service
2 Wellbeing days annually
Paid maternity & paternity leave
Learning & Development opportunities - internal progression is encouraged and fostered.
Company vehicles (role dependent)
.....and many more great perks.

What do you bring to the role?

Technical skills & experience

  • Strong ERP development background, ideally with SAP S/4HANA or ECC.
  • Solid understanding of integration technologies such as APIs, IDocs, BAPIs, RFCs, and OData.
  • Experience with non‑SAP application development or integration is advantageous.

Leadership & delivery capability

  • Proven experience coordinating multi‑disciplinary technical teams.
  • Demonstrable experience managing internal development resources and external delivery partners.
  • Strong knowledge of Agile delivery, sprint planning, and backlog management.
  • Clear and confident communicator, able to engage both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

The application process

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you. "Join us in Making Possible"

For more information or an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Paul Howes, Recruitment Manager: paul.howes@bam.com

Closing date 30th April 2026 IND1

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