Job Title: Supply Chain Technology Lead

Summary of role

Core activities

• Act as the day-to-day technical owner for the P2P application and integration landscape, maintaining a clear technical roadmap aligned with the broader technology strategy.
• Lead solution design and technical delivery for enhancements across ERP solutions, procurement workflows, invoice processing, supplier onboarding and partner digital integrations.
• Translate business requirements into pragmatic, secure and supportable technical designs within agreed enterprise architecture and engineering standards.
• Remain hands-on with solution analysis, design reviews, integration troubleshooting, code and configuration reviews, and the resolution of complex production issues.
• Design and improve API, event-driven, EDI and data integration patterns supporting internal systems and external partners.
• Build reusable integration and partner-onboarding patterns that improve delivery speed, consistency, transaction traceability and reconciliation.
• Improve observability across the P2P estate through effective logging, monitoring, alerting, runbooks and root-cause remediation.
• Identify and deliver practical automation opportunities across P2P workflows, including intelligent document processing, exception handling and AI-assisted operations.
• Coordinate internal engineers, delivery partners and vendors, setting technical direction and assuring the quality, maintainability and supportability of delivered solutions.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement and Operations stakeholders to prioritise work, explain technical options and risks, and support adoption of delivered capabilities.
• Embed security, privacy, resilience and data-governance requirements into solution design and operational practices.
• Coach developers and technical contributors, progressively building the leadership and architecture capability required to take broader ownership of the Core Systems domain.

Skills and Experience

• 8-10 years of experience in software engineering, enterprise applications or systems integration, including at least 2-3 years operating as a Senior Developer or Technical Lead.
• Strong hands-on capability in full stack custom application design, integration engineering and the support of business-critical systems using Python, react.js, node.js and AWS cloud stack.
• Experience with Camunda, Cleo and Netsuite or similar solutions highly desirable.
• Experience working with ERP, finance, procurement or supply-chain platforms and an understanding of end-to-end Procure-to-Pay processes.
• Experience leading mid-level and junior developers situated on-site and offshore.
• Practical experience with APIs, messaging, ETL, event-driven integration or EDI patterns, including monitoring and production troubleshooting.
• Experience delivering solutions across cloud and SaaS environments using modern software development and release practices.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear solution designs and make sound technical trade-offs within enterprise standards.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with accountability for seeing issues through from diagnosis to sustainable resolution.
• Confidence working directly with business stakeholders, vendors and delivery partners, supported by clear written and verbal communication.
• Ability to lead through influence, coach others and balance hands-on technical work with delivery coordination and stakeholder engagement.
• Tertiary qualification in computer science, software engineering, information systems or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Key Stakeholders

• Within the team: Chief Data & Technology Officer, Core Systems contributors, Data & AI Engineering, Platforms, Digital Resilience and Business Partnering.
• Within the business: Finance, Procurement and Operations stakeholders who own P2P processes, priorities, controls and adoption.
• Delivery partners and vendors: application, implementation, support and integration partners engaged across the P2P estate.
• External partners: suppliers, logistics providers and other connected organisations involved in partner onboarding and transaction flows.