SAP Security Consultant

Job Location:

Milton Keynes, Remote/Hybrid

Weekly

Working Hours:

37

Contract Type:
Permanent

Fixed Term

Contract:

End Date:
Not Applicable

Welsh Language:
Not Applicable

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.

• Manage and support SAP Roles & Authorisations across S/4
  
  HANA, 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.

• 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/4
  
  HANA, ECC, BW).
• Experience of troubleshooting and access control issues in enterprise platforms (SAP S/4
  
  HANA, 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/4
  
  HANA exposure is desirable.

At The Open University, we offer a range of benefits to recognise and reward great work, alongside policies and flexible working that contribute towards a great work life balance. Get all the details of what benefits we offer by visiting our Staff Benefits page (clicking this link will open a new window).

We are open to discussions about flexible working. Whether it’s a job share, part time, compressed hours or another working arrangement. Please reach out to us to discuss what works best for you.

It is anticipated that a hybrid working pattern can be adopted for this role, where the successful candidate can work from home and the office. However, as this role is contractually aligned to our Milton Keynes office it is expected that some attendance in the office will be required when necessary and in response to business needs. We’d expect this to be approximately once per month.

The Open University is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion which is reflected in our mission to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment so that all in our OU community can reach their potential. We recognise that different people bring different perspectives, ideas, knowledge, and culture, and that this difference brings great strength.

We strive to recruit, retain and develop the careers of a diverse pool of students and staff, and particularly encourage applications from all underrepresented groups. We also aspire to make The Open University a supportive workplace for all through our policies, services and staff networks.