KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Lead the design stream for Asset Management, ensuring alignment with Anglian Water’s operational strategies and SAP S/4HANA best practices.
• Establish and maintain robust design governance processes to ensure design integrity and consistency across workstreams.
• With the Functional Leads, present key design decisions for Asset Management and associated integrations to the Design Authority with options, pros and cons and a recommendation. Ensure that solution design adheres to core architecture principles. Act as a member of the Design Authority for Asset Management and associated integrations.
• Ensure all design deliverables meet Anglian Water’s regulatory compliance requirements.
• Incorporate industry best practices into the design to optimise asset lifecycle management, reduce operational risks, and improve cost efficiency.
• Engage with key stakeholders, including asset managers, operations teams and regulatory bodies, to capture and validate requirements.
• Bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring a mutual understanding of design deliverables and expectations.
• Ensure the design is understood at all senior levels of AWS.
• Collaborate with Solution Architects, Functional / Technical Leads, Process Architects, Data Architects, Analytics Leads and external delivery partners to ensure the Asset Management design aligns with programme timelines and milestones.
• Support sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives for Asset Management focused deliverables.
• Drive the design of SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) modules, including asset planning, scheduling, execution, performance monitoring, and predictive maintenance.
• Recommend new Asset Management products and solutions that align with our SAP roadmap and business outcomes.
• Ensure seamless integration of Asset Management with other key SAP modules, including Finance, Project Systems, Supply Chain and Customer Service, including interim design elements while transitioning from ECC to S/4HANA.
• Support the 3rd Party Integration Lead to ensure seamless integration of Asset Management with 3rd party applications, e.g. work scheduling and GIS tools.
• Provide quality assurance for detailed solution design, build, test and deployment:
• Solution design documents: Business Process Design Documents (BPDD’s), configuration documents, functional / technical specifications, batch jobs, etc.
• Solution build and test scenarios / scripts.
• Cutover planning.
• Oversee the creation and validation of WRICEFU (Workflow, Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, Forms, UI) objects and ensure they support end-to-end Asset Management processes. Support the principle of adopting standard functionality and keeping the core clean.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A THE DESIGN LEAD FOR ASSET MANAGEMENT?

• Significant experience leading design efforts in large SAP ERP transformation programmes, including S4/HANA, with a specific focus on Plant Maintenance and Asset Management
• We are looking for someone who has been the Lead Solution Architect in an S4 Asset Management transformation programme
• Strong knowledge of asset lifecycle management processes, including planning, scheduling, maintenance execution, and performance analytics.
• Cross-functional experience in areas closely integrated with EAM, e.g. SAP Supply Chain Logistics (IM, EWM) and Customer Service.
• Experience working with WRICEFU objects and integrating SAP modules with third-party tools and platforms (e.g., GIS and scheduling tools, predictive analytics solutions).
• Demonstrated ability to manage design governance, resolve design-related risks, and ensure adherence to programme timelines.
• Experience in asset-intensive industries such as water utilities, energy or infrastructure.
• Familiarity with UK water industry regulatory frameworks and operational challenges.
• Working knowledge of Linear Asset Management, 9 phase maintenance and maintenance centric service orders.
• Working knowledge of SAP EAM tools like SAP Asset Intelligence Network (AIN) and Predictive Asset Insights (PAI).
• Working knowledge of SAP EAM mobile solutions, e.g. Service and Asset Manager on BTP.
• Experience with Agile delivery frameworks in large-scale transformation
• Experience with Flori apps for Asset Management

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave
• Flexible working
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

Inclusion at Anglian Water: Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.

• Lead the design of the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) modules.
• Ensure seamless integration of Asset Management with other key SAP modules and 3rd party applications.
• Engage with key internal and external stakeholders to capture and validate requirements.
• Collaborate with Architects and Functional / Technical Leads (internal and external) to ensure the Asset Management design aligns with programme timelines and milestones.
• Ensure all design deliverables meet Anglian Water’s regulatory compliance requirements.
• Support the identification and documentation of change impacts for Asset Management processes.
• Manage and develop a team of direct reports.