Senior Product Engineer

at  Bank of England

SENIOR PRODUCT ENGINEER

• (005511)
  Primary Location UK-ENG-London
  Job Information Technology
  Organisation TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
  Job Posting 26-Feb-2024, 9:17:03 AM
  The Bank of England is the UK’s central bank. Our mission is to deliver monetary and financial stability for the United Kingdom.
  The Bank of England is a diverse organisation. Each of its 4,000 people are committed to public service and dedicated to promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability.
  Work for an organisation steeped in history with a front row seat for the digitalisation of the financial sector. A core organisational strength, with our people at our centre, Technology enable the Bank of England to deliver its mission by providing a diverse set of technical solutions and platforms. From supporting critical systems which underpin the UK economy, to evolving data analytics, reinventing our online presence, and introducing a fully digital workplace. Be part of a team that’s constantly evolving, just like our industry.
  We take pride in our people, with backgrounds and experiences as diverse as the solutions they provide. You’ll enjoy flexible working opportunities, a good sense of community and well-being, and a collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK. All of which add up to make the Bank a hugely rewarding place to work.
  Within Technology Product Development you will be working with people who are passionate about delivering high quality products and services. Unlike many large organisations, we provide both engineering and development in-house and this internal expertise allows us to understand the diverse needs of our historic institution, and work using agile methodologies to deliver them.
  You’ll focus on providing quality systems and services that matter to the nation’s economy. Payment, Analytical, Supervision and Central Functions systems, we develop and support them all as part of our broad remit. Collaborating closely with colleagues across Technology and throughout the organisation, you will to help deliver safe and supportable services which underpin business processes.
  We strive for best-practice and our teams are aligned to structured processes; which we will support you to understand through mentoring, training (we will provide you with an SAP Learning Hub licence) and formal qualifications. You will be given support, experience, knowledge and time to learn SAP technologies, methods of delivering them and most importantly getting ‘value’ for the Bank ! There is scope to be creative with the processes and tools used particularly to deliver business value and to play a critical role in the Bank’s evolution of its SAP Platform

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer (SAP Requirements to Develop – R2D) to help us manage, change, maintain, support and configure a ‘business critical’ SAP system that hosts applications for both the processing and issuance of bank notes and the secure storage and processing of gold bullion. The role will be a key part of an SAP Product Team working with the SAP Platform Lead who has responsibility for the technical delivery of the SAP Platform, Change, including Small Change, and Investment Board projects the domain is involved in as part of the wider Bank Portfolio. Additionally, the successful candidate will play a critical role in the Bank’s journey to the next generation of SAP Products based on S4/HANA.
To be successful in this role a high level of knowledge and experience in changing, configuring and supporting SAP functional modules (currently based on SAP ECC) will be required; primarily MM, SD and WM. The ideal candidate will offer all of these but candidates with proven experience of supporting, designing and delivering change in at least one of these modules will be considered
The Senior Product Engineer will be a key member of the SAP Product team supporting existing processes and delivering change for new ones

The candidate will be expected to:

• Lead and mentor up to three other Product Engineers
• Complement and work closely with the existing SAP Product Engineers, ABAP developers and BASIS personnel within the SAP Product Team to undertake the configuration, maintenance and support of the Notes and Goldbar applications.
• Use their technical and business experience to support the NIPS and Goldbar systems with experience and skills in the SAP R/3 Functional ‘core modules’ (particularly MM, SD and WM).
• Carry out investigation/fault finding for reported incidents within the SAP configuration or ABAP code. Where appropriate undertake remediation and / or specify required changes.
• Take lead developer / designer responsibilities for the Requirements to Develop (R2D) cycle. Evaluate business requirements and produce estimates, designs, solutions and functional specifications for the configuration of change requests as part of scheduled maintenance releases and ‘standalone’ changes. Where required either undertaking development and configuration directly or supervising the activities of 3rd party developers.
• Ensure that Key Performance Indicators reflecting the above mentioned activities are met or exceeded.
• For BAU incidents identify root cause, document into a knowledge base and where required carry out remedial action
• Deliver high quality software components and documentation which conform to the Bank’s Technology guidelines and standards.
• Share knowledge, contribute to technical discussions and assist other team members when necessary. In particular, the candidate will be involved in the definition of the future SAP ‘roadmap’ for the Bank.

THIS SPECIFIC ROLE OFFERS A BASE SALARY OF BETWEEN £51, 870 - £69,120 PER ANNUM, ALONG WITH OUR COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS PACKAGE AS FOLLOWS:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits. (Note that from April 2023 and for the Benefits year 2023/24, this will increase to 8%)
• 26 days annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits. (Note: effective from April 2023)
• Private medical insurance and income protection.