Specialist, SAP Security (User Management)

Job Description

Specialist, SAP Security (User Management)

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.     
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's’ IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centres.

Role Overview

Our IT team functions as a strategic business partner, constantly proposing ideas and delivering innovative solutions that empower the organization with new capabilities. Through international collaboration, we strive to provide services and solutions that enhance productivity and drive innovation throughout the company.

In this role, the candidate will engage with a globally diverse group of teams, including SAP Basis, Security, ABAP, SAP functional team members, the infrastructure team, and other IT process partners. These collaborations will involve providing support for both ongoing operations and new initiatives. The candidate will work closely with the SAP Technical Architect, offering guidance on architectural matters and the integration of new applications and technologies. Additionally, the candidate is expected to lead cross-functional projects, address complex challenges, and contribute to program-wide initiatives. As our organization undertakes a transformation journey, leveraging the latest SAP technologies and infrastructure, the candidate should possess experience with these modern tools. The ability to both lead technical projects and perform hands-on tasks is essential.

What You Will Do

As an SAP Authorization and User Admin, you will be responsible for supporting the strategy, design, and implementation of SAP security across multiple SAP platforms, including the latest cloud environments.

• Offer security and compliance guidance for project and process improvement initiatives, and direct ERP Center of Excellence teams in solution implementation.

• Act as a contributor to SAP security strategies and execution, and serve as a subject matter expert on GRC, user management, ITGC, and SOX controls activities.

• Coordinate authorization technical support, lead improvement initiatives related to authorizations, and support the organization in executing the established authorization strategy.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, architects, and developers, to gather and analyze authorization requirements.

• Translate business needs into technical and authorization designs.

• Create and maintain technical documentation related to authorization design.

What should you have

Minimum of 5 years’ experience with SAP applications, focusing on Security Design, User Access Mgmt. and rollout projects.

• Proven experience with S/4 HANA, Fiori, and participation in at least one Security design or implementation project.

• Strong expertise in SAP project execution and rollout activities, including mass user access mapping, planning, business workshops, and cutover execution.

• Exposure to recent SAP Cloud applications, such as BTP, Datasphere, Ariba, and HANA DB Security, is advantageous.

• Hands-on experience with SAP GRC, SOD Ruleset, risk remediation, and supporting SOX audit and IT control procedures.

• Preferred experience in the Life Sciences industry and familiarity with GxP procedures.

• Experience with SOP development, documentation, and testing strategy is preferred.

• Ability to independently support multiple parallel projects and manage a team is preferred.

• Demonstrate adaptability to diverse and inclusive cultures and flexibility with shifting priorities and deliveries

• Holds a degree in Information Technology, Engineering, or an equivalent field.

• Possesses excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

• Exhibits strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, managing multiple priorities, and achieving challenging goals.

Primary Skills

• SAP GRC
• SOX audit
• S/4 HANA
• Fiori, SAP Cloud
• Security design

Who we are

We are known as well-known org Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

Required Skills:

Cross-Team Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Foster Innovation, Methods and Tools, Requirements Management, SAP Authorizations, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP), SAP Implementations, SAP PP (Production Planning), SAP Security Administration, SAP Technical Architecture, Security by Design, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, Solution Implementation, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Teamwork, Technical Advice, Technical Projects

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

08/31/2026

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