Senior System Specialist

Package: 57,150– 63,500 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits Role  you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Systems Specialist at our Farnborough, Boscombe Down or Malvern site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role As a Senior Systems Specialist, you will provide expert-level support and leadership in the management of QinetiQ’s SAP Success Factors platform. Operating within Enterprise Digital Services, the role is accountable for ensuring system is secure, resilient, and aligned with evolving business needs.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead on system design, integration, and service improvement initiatives, working closely with stakeholders across geographies to deliver high-quality outcomes. By combining deep technical expertise with strategic insight and mentoring capabilities, the role drives operational excellence, enhances user experience, and contributes to the continuous evolution of corporate IT services.

Your responsibilities will include:

Provide technical leadership and Subject Matter Expertise across SAP Success Factors and enterprise systems, shaping system strategy, supporting the HR technology roadmap, and ensuring alignment with business objectives

Manage Success Factors system configuration, security, governance, and compliance, including role-based access controls, change management, audit readiness, data protection, and adherence to organisational policies and best practices

Lead system support, incident resolution, and service delivery, acting as an escalation point for complex issues, coordinating with stakeholders, and ensuring system availability, performance, and service excellence

Oversee integrations, data management, and system lifecycle activities, including data migration, validation, reconciliation, platform upgrades, releases, enhancements, and continuous optimisation

Collaborate with business stakeholders, vendors, and third-party partners to define requirements, implement solutions, manage platform roadmaps, support projects, and identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement

Drive continuous improvement, documentation, testing, and knowledge sharing, maintaining high-quality system documentation, leading testing activities, providing user training and mentoring, and enhancing operational efficiency and user experience

Essential experience of the Senior Systems Specialist:
Extensive knowledge of Success Factors and the wider SAP product and systems landscape supporting multiple modules.

Strong experience configuring, supporting, integrating, and optimising Success Factors modules

Strategic technical leadership with a proven ability to shape system roadmaps, lead design and enhancement initiatives, and align technology solutions with business objectives across complex, multi-site organisations

Strong governance, security, and service management knowledge, including access controls, compliance, audit requirements, incident, change, and problem management, and adherence to regulatory standards such as GDPR and ISO 27001

Excellent stakeholder, vendor, and communication skills, able to influence senior leaders, collaborate across technical and business teams, manage third-party providers, and translate technical concepts into business outcomes

Results-driven and continuous improvement focused, with strong analytical, documentation, mentoring, and problem-solving capabilities, driving system performance, user adoption, operational efficiency, and team development

Essential qualifications for the Senior Systems Specialist:

A technical degree in a related field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Maths) or equivalent professional experience

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experienced willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based…