As SAP Performance Engineer you will be part of SAP Platform team contributing towards making the system more performant, resilient and optimised. You will be playing key role in sizing the SAP infrastructure, optimising SAP solutions, reviewing design for performance, and being part of SAP APM monitoring solution and various other facets for new and existing SAP systems.
As SAP Performance Engineer, you will sit within a growing SAP Platform team, working at the heart of our IT estate on applications supporting our core business across Banking, Savings and Accounting functions.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time,
based at our Swindon office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doingAs Performance Engineer, you will be involved in NFR creation, conducting performance risk analysis, executing POCs and conducting technical triage. You would be expected to contribute towards making the system performant and resilient. Evaluate the existing IT infrastructure and recommend improvements to enhance SAP system performance.
You would need to collaborate with senior management and business stakeholders to understand the organization's SAP infrastructure needs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess server capacity requirements for SAP systems. Develop and maintain server capacity models to ensure optimal resource allocation. Monitor SAP system performance and recommend adjustments based on server capacity analysis.
Utilize and configure SAP Solution Manager for system monitoring, incident management, Focused Insights, CHARM (Change Request Management) and ITSM (IT Service Management).
You would be responsible for maintaining APM tools on SAP like Dynatrace with Power connect, create dashboard based on business plans, report on usage trends and forecast to senior management and platform owners.
About you - Experience of Performance Engineering activities and producing relevant artefacts.
- Proven experience working on SAP Capacity Modelling, sap sizing reports and tools to estimate hardware requirements based on current system configuration and future workload.
- Experience with capacity planning tools like Helix Capacity Optimization, APM tools like Solman, Dynatrace with Power connect and reporting tools like Power BI
- Hands on experience of creating dashboard on Power BI
- In-depth knowledge of server infrastructure, storage systems, network design, virtualization considering factors such as performance, scalability, availability, and security.
- Strong experience in SAP administration and BASIS related activities such as configuration, installation, performance tuning analysis and troubleshooting of sap banking applications.
- Solid understanding of SAP workload types such as batch jobs, dialog transactions, Web services and RFC so that it helps in identifying resource consumption patterns.
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
- Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
- Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
- Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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The extras you'll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
What makes us differentNationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.
As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
What to do nextIf this role is for you, please click the 'Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
