About this role
Salary: £41,500 - 71,000 per year
Requirements
- Track record of successful delivery as an active participant in SAP ERP and integrated enterprise systems implementations for medium to large organisations.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, configuring and supporting customised and standard SAP Security solutions, with in-depth SAP Security and Authorisations knowledge.
- Solid understanding of SAP ERP modules, components and architecture, including integration with other SAP modules.
- Hands-on experience with SAP data migration, cleansing and transformation using LSMWs, BDC and mass upload tools.
- In-depth working knowledge of SAP Security and Authorisations and their impact on other modules.
- Experience implementing on-premise applications and SaaS systems, including data integration.
- Understanding of the end-to-end SAP software development lifecycle in Agile or waterfall environments.
- Good understanding of the Agile Manifesto, DevOps principles, Scrum and Lean engineering practices; experience with process frameworks such as ITIL and PRINCE2 is expected.
- Knowledge of ITIL processes supported by ServiceNow, business unit policies and processes, and the wider business context.
- Experience working in an IT function or similar.
- Analytical problem-solving skills, including use of SAP Notes and SAP Help to solve business problems.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex information to technical and non-technical audiences and document work clearly.
- Ability to understand end-to-end systems, constraints and bottlenecks, and identify ways to simplify processes and automate interactions.
- Awareness of the consumer perspective, changing technology practices and individual-centric IT design.
- Strong time-management and organisational skills, with a proactive approach to learning, self-development and continuous improvement.
- Ability to assess risks and the impact of changes to relevant standards, methods, tools, applications and processes.
- Ability to contribute specialist expertise to requirements definition, share knowledge and support the development of others.
- Awareness of security, privacy and ethics in the context of the work and organisation.
- SFIA skills as defined in the appropriate Sub-Discipline available in the IM&T Skills Academy.
Responsibilities
- Design, configure and develop customised and standard SAP Security solutions, supporting their integration into the end-to-end solution.
- Take accountability for design quality, risk assessment and delivery of solution components.
- Follow standards, governance and best practices set by Product Architects, and mitigate technical debt, risks and issues.
- Contribute actively to the DevOps team by supporting the application, resolving incidents and problems, reducing technical debt and developing features that enable the business through ERP.
- Provide product and service direction to the Product Management Team and implement it as part of a self-organising team.
- Diagnose service delivery problems and initiate actions to maintain or improve service levels.
- Proactively reduce incidents and problem tickets by addressing root causes and product knowledge gaps in the business.
- Work with peers, business stakeholders and Product Analysts to refine requirements and translate them into Security and Authorisations functional and technical designs.
- Work with other Product Engineers to produce complementary cross-module designs and promote continuity of knowledge across the team.
- Design and deliver technical plans within business change programmes, and advise on system development and integration, including change requests and deviations from specifications.
- Support users, define features and functionality, and implement change with guidance from the DevOps Lead, Product Owner and Product Solution Architect.
- Contribute to cross-functional teams to ensure customer and user needs are met throughout delivery.
- Investigate, define and resolve complex issues, and apply creative thinking to find innovative approaches.
- Apply knowledge, skills and training to deliver technology solutions that support the businesss strategic and tactical goals.
- Continually seek opportunities for functional improvement, experimentation, innovation and more efficient delivery and support.
- Communicate and document work so colleagues can understand it, continue from it and learn from it.
Technologies
- Architect
- DevOps
- ERP
- Support
- ITIL
- Kanban
- Product Owner
- SAP
- Security
- ServiceNow
- Flow
More
We are recruiting an experienced, detail-oriented SAP Security and Authorisations Engineer to join an existing DevOps team and support a pipeline of transformational changes that improve business efficiency. The role is a key enabler of digital finance transformation and works with a Product Team using collaborative, Agile practices such as Scrum and Kanban. The environment is highly collaborative, visible and measured, with a focus on customer value, experimentation and continuous improvement. The role is remote, with occasional site visits, is offered at £659.75 per day for six months, and does not require SC Clearance.
last updated 46 week of 2026