Senior Systems Engineer

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £55,000 - £65,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

CLOSING DATE: 23:59 on Friday the 13th of March 2026.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. If you’d like to, please indicate your preference in the application – though there’s no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• 1 x hour values based interview with technical questions

This exciting role sits in the BBC’s Technology & Media Operations group, which delivers the technology requirements of the BBC across broadcast, enterprise, and digital to the strategy set by the business.

Reporting into the Procurement Systems Engineering manager, the role, working in partnership with third parties and peers supporting the broader corporate systems landscape, will be responsible for overseeing the implementation, management, and optimisation of the Procurement systems within the BBC, largely SAP and SAP partner solutions. The role plays a crucial part in ensuring that our procurement solutions align with business objectives and deliver value to the BBC.

You will be joining a small, established team that works well together in a rapidly developing and transformative space. You will have the opportunity to pick up new skills and best‑practice ways of working that help drive efficiency and value for money. The team is currently engaged in an exciting transformation in the Finance and Procurement space, and you will be a contributor to this effort.

• Act as a coordinator for small/medium technical changes, clarifying requirements submitted by BBC business users and managing a change process followed by an outsourced technology provider, including documentation review, technical build, testing cycles, production deployment and post go‑live support.
• Act as a trusted team member for larger projects with technical change elements, working closely with project management and project stakeholders to deliver timely, high‑quality outcomes.
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, offering support and influencing best practice focused on achievable goals.
• Work with outsourced technology partners and internal stakeholders to support the resolution of incidents at varied severity levels.

• Extensive experience with source‑to‑pay system landscapes, including understanding how best‑practice configurations align with business processes and providing guidance to a wide range of technical and functional stakeholders.
• Experience with the following software: SAP Ariba (Guided Buying, Sourcing, Contracting, SLP, Risk, Managed Gateway), SAP Contract Intelligence powered by Icertis, SAP ECC6 (MM), SAP MDG, Opentext VIM/CC4S.
• Experience reviewing technical and functional documentation, identifying and revising based on quality, clarity and completeness.
• Ability to engage and influence stakeholders at various levels, translating and imparting technical concepts into audience‑relevant information.
• Understanding the necessity of security, access control and segregation of duties in system design.

• Experience with the following software: SAP S/4
  
  HANA (MM), SAP Net Weaver Portal, SAP Fiori, SAP Signavio, SAP Joule, SAP Walk Me.
• Awareness of regulatory compliance requirements in public‑sector procurement.
• Experience with external audit processes.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties…