SAP IAM Lead

Role: SAP IAM Lead

Job Type: Permanent

Location: London (Canary Warf / Watford)

Working Hours: 40 hours per week (Full-time)

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The Role

SAP IAM Lead ensures secure, compliant, and efficient management of user access across SAP landscapes by designing and implementing identity governance, access control, and risk management solutions, while supporting audit and regulatory requirements.

Your responsibilities:

• Identity & Access Governance Implementation: Implement and configure SAP IAM modules using Access Risk Analysis (ARA), Access Request Management (ARM), Emergency Access Management (EAM), Role Design & Provisioning (RDP)
• Support deployment across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, and cloud applications.
• Access Risk & Compliance Management: Perform Segregation of Duties (SoD) risk analysis, Identify and mitigate Critical access risks, Compliance violations, Define and maintain Risk rulesets, Mitigation controls
• User Access & Role Management: Design and maintain business roles and technical roles, role hierarchies and authorizations, manage user provisioning and de-provisioning, Access requests and approvals workflows
• Integration & System Connectivity: Integrate SAP IAM with SAP IAS (Identity Authentication Service), SAP IPS (Identity Provisioning Service), SAP GRC systems (if hybrid landscape), Non-SAP systems (via connectors/APIs e.g. SailPoint), Configure Cloud connectors, Identity federation
• Workflow & Process Configuration: Configure access request workflows for Multi-level approval processes, Risk-based approvals and customize business rules, notification mechanisms
• Testing & Deployment: Perform unit testing, integration testing, UAT support, manage transport of configurations, production deployments
• Documentation & Governance: Maintain functional and technical documentation, access governance policies, define standards for Role naming conventions, Access control practices

Your Profile

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with SAP IAM modules: Access Risk Analysis (ARA), Access Request Management (ARM), Emergency Access Management (EAM), Role Design & Provisioning (RDP)
• Deep understanding of SAP authorization concepts (roles, profiles, objects), User administration and access control
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA / ECC security
• Segregation of Duties (SoD) & Risk Management experience in rule set configuration and maintenance, Risk identification and mitigation strategies, Compliance frameworks (SOX, audit controls)
• Identity & Access Management Concepts including User lifecycle management (joiner-mover-leaver), Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Hands-on experience with SAP IAS (Identity Authentication Service), SAP IPS (Identity Provisioning Service)
• Integration of SAP IAM with SAP applications and cloud systems
• Workflow & Access Request Configuration using Multi-stage approval workflows, Risk-based access request processes, Customize access provisioning workflows
• Soft Skills including strong problem-solving and analytical skills, communication with business & tech stakeholders, Agile/Scrum experience

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

• Experience with advanced SAP Landscapes e.g. Hybrid landscapes (SAP GRC + IAM), Multi-system environments
• Basic knowledge of Technical & Development Exposure e.g. ABAP, SAP Fiori/UI5, Familiarity with APIs and automation
• Non-SAP System Integration e.g. Experience integrating IAM with Third-party IAM tools (SailPoint), Cloud applications
• Knowledge of compliance & Governance Expertise Regulatory standards (SOX, GDPR, ISO27001), Experience in audit handling and governance frameworks
• SAP Certifications (Preferred): SAP Security / SAP IAM / SAP GRC or Related certifications: CISA, CISSP (nice to have)

Rewards & Benefits

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, phone, access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

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We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at [email protected] if you would like to opt in.

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