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Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Trainee SAP UI UX Developer

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73998

Launch Your Career Building Digital Solutions That Support a Safe and Secure World

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Trainee SAP UI UX Developer at Lakeside, near Cosham, Portsmouth.

The role

As Trainee SAP UI UX Developer, you'll be part of a team responsible for delivering modern SAP applications and services that enable business performance across Babcock. You'll gain exposure to SAP technologies including SAP Fiori, SAP UI5 and ABAP development, while contributing to projects that support operational excellence and digital transformation.

The role offers outstanding learning and development opportunities, allowing you to build technical expertise while making a meaningful contribution to a business that supports national security and critical infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:
Developing and enhancing SAP applications using SAP UI5, Fiori and ABAP technologies.
Supporting the delivery of high-quality, tested solutions that meet business requirements and improve user experience.
Extending existing SAP Fiori applications and creating new custom applications to support business needs.
Collaborating with colleagues, stakeholders and technical teams to deliver effective and customer-focused solutions.
Learning new technologies, development methodologies and SAP best practices through structured mentoring and training.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Trainee SAP UI UX Developer:
Experience working within an Information Technology team or technology-focused environment.
Demonstrable enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools and development techniques.
Understanding of change control processes and working within governed environments.
Experience managing competing priorities and delivering work to agreed deadlines.
Ability to work effectively with diverse teams and learn independently when required.

Qualifications for the Trainee SAP UI UX Developer:
Essential

A qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Development or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrable interest in software development and digital technologies.

Desirable

Exposure to SAP technologies, SAP development or enterprise software platforms.
A desire to achieve SAP Development certification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 14/07/2026

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