SAP IAM Lead

We’re hiring a SAP IAM Lead to take ownership of identity governance, access control and risk management across a major, complex SAP landscape spanning S/4HANA, ECC and cloud applications.

You’ll be the go-to specialist for secure, compliant and efficient user access - designing and implementing IAM solutions that keep the business audit-ready while working closely with both technical and business stakeholders. It’s a hands-on lead position covering everything from role design and provisioning through to SoD risk analysis and workflow configuration, with genuine scope to shape access governance standards across the organisation.

Role & Responsibilities

• Implement and configure SAP IAM (ARA, ARM, EAM, RDP)
• Run SoD risk analysis; manage rulesets and mitigation controls
• Design business/technical roles, role hierarchies and authorisations
• Manage user provisioning, de-provisioning and access request workflows
• Integrate with SAP IAS, IPS, GRC and non-SAP tools (e.g. SailPoint)
• Configure multi-level and risk-based approval workflows
• Support unit/integration/UAT testing and production deployments
• Maintain access governance documentation and standards

• Strong hands-on SAP IAM experience (ARA/ARM/EAM/RDP)
• Deep SAP authorisation knowledge (roles, profiles, objects)
• SoD and risk management, ideally with SOX/audit exposure
• IAS/IPS integration experience
• Comfortable working Agile/Scrum with business & tech stakeholders
• Bonus: SAP Security/GRC certs, CISA/CISSP, ABAP or Fiori/UI5 exposure, * Access Control Systems
• Active Directory (Line)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Authentication and Authorization (User)
• Azure Active Directory (Powershell)
• Business Process Improvement (Nvq)
• Confidentiality Practices
• Connection Terminology
• Engineering Knowledge
• Identity Access Management