Senior SAP Data Engineer

Nomad Foods
Woking
1 week ago
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Competitive salary, company car, up to 25% bonus and excellent benefits package


We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior SAP Data Engineer to join our Central Data Team at a time of significant transformation. As the business continues to grow at pace, Nomad Foods is accelerating its journey toward becoming a data‑driven organisation. This role plays a critical part in managing and optimising our data landscape across SAP and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to ensure accurate, timely and scalable reporting and insights.


If you have deep expertise in SAP Analytics, hands‑on BW/4HANA experience and the ability to design high‑quality data models and pipelines, this is an outstanding opportunity to influence the future of data at Nomad Foods.


About the Role

Reporting to the Head of Reporting & Data Engineering, you will focus on data engineering across SAP and GCP, ensuring the right data foundations, pipelines and models are in place to support reporting and insight generation. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders and third‑party partners to deliver enhancements, ensure data quality and drive continuous improvement.


This role also requires strong collaboration with key commercial and insight teams to understand business needs, translate them into data requirements, and deliver effective technical solutions.


Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and optimise data models and pipelines using SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP BW and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Partner with the IT Service Partner to build a scalable Enterprise Data Platform and minimise unnecessary data movement.
  • Identify and use the best internal and external data sources to support reporting and analytics.
  • Lead requirements gathering for new data features or changes, ensuring alignment with Central Data Team standards.
  • Work closely with Commercial Insight, RGM, Master Data and Business Analyst teams to enable high‑quality reporting and insights.
  • Support and occasionally lead the team in the absence of the Head of Reporting & Data Engineering.
  • Oversee data production runs, ensuring issues are prioritised and communicated effectively.
  • Represent the Central Data Team at Technical Advisory Board (TAB) and Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings.
  • Maintain and enforce development standards alongside the IT Service Partner.
  • Lead testing of new or updated data items and support software upgrades.

What We’re Looking For

  • Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a Data Engineering or similar role.
  • Strong knowledge of SAP Reporting Suite (BW, SAC) and data modelling principles.
  • Hands‑on SAP BW/4HANA experience (desirable).
  • Strong SQL skills and excellent analytical capability.
  • Experience working with SAP ECC, S/4HANA, C4C or SuccessFactors as data sources (desirable).
  • Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (highly beneficial).
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across functions and with external partners.
  • Proactive mindset, strong attention to detail and ability to solve complex problems.

What we can offer You:

We’re on an exceptional adventure and offer a truly purpose led career and we aim to empower each employee and promote their personal growth all the while ensuring business needs are met now and into the future.



  • An ambitious employer with recognized brands and growth potential
  • A culture where your part of a team, where you feel encouraged to make a difference
  • The potential to progress your career across different areas of the Nomad Foods Group

Who are we:

Headquartered in the UK, with revenues of €3.2 billion and operations in 22 key markets, Nomad Foods is Europe’s leading frozen food company. We are a young company, founded only eight years ago, and built around a number of iconic brands (including Birds Eye, Findus and iglo and more recently Ledo and Frikom) that invented the frozen category 100 years ago and continue to set the bar for great taste, nutrition, convenience and affordability. Across everything we do, we are guided by our Purpose - Serving the World with Better Food - and how we can make a positive impact on our Performance, People and the Planet.


At Nomad Foods we’re proud to represent the world we serve by hiring diverse talent. Our inclusive culture is all about what we can achieve together.


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