SAP Security Architect and Team Lead in Todmorden

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a SAP Security Architect and Team Lead at Lakeside, near Cosham, Portsmouth.

The role involves safeguarding the systems that underpin some of the UK’s most important defence, aerospace, and engineering programmes. This is a chance to take ownership of SAP security across a complex enterprise environment, shaping strategy, leading talented specialists, and ensuring our critical operations stay protected.

This role offers tremendous scope for personal growth, professional recognition, and exposure to enterprise‑scale technology landscapes, providing an opportunity to build a career with real impact.

Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Influencing key organisational decisions and guiding a highly capable team.
• Leading the design, configuration, and support of SAP Security and Authorisations across ERP and cloud solutions.
• Managing, mentoring, and developing a team of SAP security specialists to ensure high performance and effective resource allocation.
• Delivering solution design, audit preparation, and compliance activities across multiple SAP systems and modules.
• Overseeing internal and external SAP security audits, ensuring robust governance and alignment with best practice.
• Collaborating as a core member of the SAP Solution Architect/Design Team and Change Control Board.

Essential experience includes:

• Leading SAP security design and configuration across large programmes, change portfolios, or system integrator environments, with more than three implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage mixed teams including permanent staff, contractors, and third‑party suppliers.
• Expert knowledge of SAP Authorisation concepts, including Single/Composite roles and derivation.
• Strong SAP security technical skills across major functional and technical components.
• Experience supporting user access across multiple SAP modules and systems (ECC, S4, IDM, BTP, BW, Ariba, PO/PI/CPI, IAS/IPS).

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be British Nationals, hold British passport (no dual nationals).

What we offer includes:

• Generous holiday allowance.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of professional fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of leave.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – paid leave to volunteer with an organisation or charity of your choice.
• Flexible working options to support work–life balance while meeting business needs.
• A dynamic working environment.
• Private Medical Insurance (PMI).

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.