About this role
Salary: £36,000 - 76,000 per year
Requirements
- Track record of successful delivery and active involvement in implementing SAP ERP and integrated enterprise systems 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 and the impact of Security and Authorisations across modules.
- Hands-on experience with SAP data migration, cleansing and transformation using LSMWs, BDC and mass upload tools.
- Analytical problem-solving skills, including use of SAP Notes and SAP Help to address business problems.
- In-depth understanding of the end-to-end SAP software development lifecycle in Agile or waterfall environments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to document work clearly and share knowledge with others.
- Strong understanding of the consumer perspective and the ability to apply awareness of changing IT expectations and user-centred design to the product.
- Eagerness to learn about the product and its roadmap.
- Strong time-management and organisational skills, with a passion for challenging established approaches and supporting a culture of trust, openness, honesty and discipline.
- Ability to understand end-to-end systems, constraints and bottlenecks, and identify ways to simplify processes, automate interactions and improve delivery and support efficiency.
- Attention to configuration control, ergonomics, aesthetics, user experience and customer perception.
- Knowledge of ITIL processes supported by ServiceNow, and awareness of business unit policies and processes.
- Experience working in an IT function or similar environment.
- Sound generic, domain and specialist knowledge, an appreciation of the wider business context, and the ability to apply and share industry knowledge and learn new information effectively.
- Experience implementing on-premise applications and SaaS, and knowledge of systems and data integration.
- Good understanding of the Agile Manifesto, DevOps principles, Scrum and Lean engineering practices.
- Experience with process frameworks such as ITIL, PRINCE2 and Agile, and a good understanding of an efficient software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design, configure and develop SAP Security solutions, supporting customised and standard solutions and their integration with the end-to-end solution; ensure design quality, assess risk and deliver solution components.
- Adhere to 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.
- Reduce incident and problem ticket volumes 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.
- Produce cross-module designs with other Product Engineers that complement one another and promote continuity of knowledge across the team.
- Seek opportunities for functional improvement.
- Lead a small digital project or support a larger project.
- Contribute as a member of the Digital Team, deliver work with limited guidance, provide technical support to team members and specialist-area colleagues, and guide others in applying project management processes.
- Manage your own development through on-the-job learning and training programmes, support the development of others, train team members, monitor work quality and contribute to pay decisions.
- Support users, define new features and functionality, and implement change under the guidance of the DevOps Lead, Product Owner and Product Solution Architect.
- Contribute to cross-functional teams to ensure customer and user needs are met, investigate and resolve complex issues, and apply creative and innovative approaches to delivery.
- Design and deliver technical plans for business change programmes, and advise on technical aspects of system development and integration, including change requests and deviations from specifications.
- Apply technical knowledge, skills and training to deliver IT solutions that support the businesss strategic and tactical goals.
Technologies
- Architect
- DevOps
- ERP
- Flow
- Support
- ITIL
- Kanban
- Product Owner
- SAP
- Security
- ServiceNow
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 change. The role works with a Product Team to deliver business value through a high-quality product, using optimised-flow delivery based on Agile practices such as Scrum and Kanban. Our engineers work in a collaborative, visible and measured environment that encourages experimentation, innovation and continuous improvement. The role is a key enabler of digital finance transformation and operates within a clear accountability framework, with autonomy to address complex work and escalation when issues fall outside that framework.
last updated 46 week of 2026