SAP Security Consultant

The Open University; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Access to a leading pension scheme

Staff Fee Waivers for OU study

Hybrid working arrangements

Discounts and wellbeing support

Job summary

The Open University is seeking an SAP Security Consultant to strengthen security for its cloud-enabled SAP landscape. You will manage and support SAP roles across diverse systems while collaborating with various IT teams to ensure best practices.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computing & IT or equivalent experience. Benefits include 33 days leave, pension contributions, and flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a Computing & IT related subject or equivalent professional experience.
• Good knowledge of SAP roles and authorisation or strong technical background in identity and access management.
• Experience of working in at least one large enterprise system implementation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support SAP Roles & Authorisations across various systems.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure SAP role structures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SAP access and security issues.

Skills

SAP roles and authorisation

Technical background in identity management

SAP S/4HANA experience

Troubleshooting access control issues

Knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS

Education

Degree in Computing & IT or equivalent

Job description

Are you an SAP Security expert ready to shape secure, scalable enterprise systems in a truly transformative digital environment?

Join The Open University as an SAP Security Consultant and play a key role in strengthening and evolving the security of a complex, cloud-enabled SAP landscape.

About the Role

As a SAP Security Consultant (known internally as a SAP Role & Authorisation Administrator), you will be working within a team of SAP technical experts responsible for supporting, maintaining, enhancing, troubleshooting, and resolving SAP roles and authorisation related issues with the University’s SAP landscape, which is in a mixed public/private Cloud configuration.

You will facilitate the innovation and development of the Open University’s digital transformation in roles and authorisation aspects of the SAP landscape. Working with Architecture, Infrastructure, and other teams across IT to ensure best practice and process compliance across deliverables. As well as working with Project Management to own and drive project deliverables, ensuring that projects are delivered with adherence to agreed roles and authorisation designs. Leading the process and capability improvement to ensure quality roles and authorisation design and delivery across the University.

Candidates with sound technical knowledge and experience will be supported by on the job and, if necessary, external training.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support SAP Roles & Authorisations across S/4HANA, ECC, BW and Fiori systems.
• Design, implement and maintain secure SAP role structures following best practice.
• Troubleshoot and resolve SAP access and security issues across the SAP landscape.
• Work with IT architecture, infrastructure and security teams to ensure compliant access design.
• Deliver roles and authorisation activities for SAP projects and system changes.
• Review existing role designs and improve them to strengthen security and usability.
• Perform regular user access reviews and governance controls.
• Support SAP upgrades, releases and major transformation programmes.
• Ensure secure role migration during system changes and cloud transformations.
• Continuously improve SAP security processes, documentation and standards.

About You

• Educated to degree level in a Computing & IT related subject or equivalent professional experience.
• Good knowledge of SAP roles and authorisation (R&A) or strong technical background in identity, access management, SAP security with the ability to demonstrate the full range of SAP R&A skills, from research and design, to post-implementation support.
• Knowledge and experience of software engineering tools, practises, methods and standards including some of but not limited to Cloud IaaS and PaaS Services, infrastructure as code, continuous integration & continuous delivery.
• Experience of working in at least one large enterprise system implementation (SAP S/4HANA, ECC, BW).
• Experience of troubleshooting and access control issues in enterprise platforms (SAP S/4HANA, Fiori).
• Capable of implementing regular access review.
• Experience of reviewing existing role design, finding out design faults or gaps, recommending improvements and implementing changes to achieve stronger and best suitable security measures.
• Experience of SAP system upgrades or major platform transformation projects.
• Knowledge of SAP GRC and transformation from ERP to S/4HANA exposure is desirable.

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave, on top of bank holidays and a three-day Christmas closure period.
• Access to a leading pension scheme for UK higher education with generous employer contributions.
• Staff Fee Waivers for OU study, meaning you could earn a degree for free.
• Hybrid working, with limited requirement to attend the office in-person, with agile working and family friendly policies.
• Discounts, wellbeing support, and development opportunities.