SAP Developer in Essex, Harlow

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Date Posted: 2026-07-08

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type: Hybrid

Location: Remote/Hybrid working with occasional travel to our main UK sites, Glenrothes and Harlow.

Why join Raytheon:

• A meaningful mission: Work on a range of critical products essential to the success of military applications.
• A culture like no other: Join a friendly and supportive culture that takes pride in its "first time, every time" principle when it comes to product quality.
• A generous package: Enjoy a generous salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities to learn through our in-house training school with Certified IPC Trainers.
• A collaborative culture: Be part of an established and experienced manufacturing team with a wide range of manufacturing and engineering knowledge and expertise enabling your growth and learning.
• Career Pathways: Progression pathways for all People Leader and Technical roles with internal and external training courses available to support development.

Raytheon UK has an opportunity for an experienced IT professional to support ERP Abap development. The function sits within the Digital Technology team and is responsible for the delivery and support of application solutions to all UK based divisions to successfully enable operational business and operational delivery. This role is responsible for supporting and maintaining the full application life cycle and day-to-day operation along with servicing any new business requirements/configuration changes and new standups, utilising industry standard best practice. It will also play a major part in understanding new business requirements, testing and integration with other applications to integrate data between applications. The successful candidate shall analyse, enhance, develop, install, test and modify enterprise-wide and specialist business applications. It is our policy to implement commercial off the shelf packages and configure the applications to meet business needs; however, when necessary, some bespoke tailoring can be used.

What you'll be doing:

• Work with other functional/business teams to deliver business systems to meet functional/business requirements.
• Work closely with other staff and functional users, ensuring systems or changes are delivered in a timely and effective manner.
• Work directly with the functional/business user community on bug fixes, requests for service and approved changes to current systems and new applications.
• Ensure the ongoing availability of Raytheon systems solutions working toward improved system productivity.
• Provide system support in response to business needs within published service levels – respond to and resolve break fixes and execute preventative maintenance solutions.
• Provide out of hours support, as agreed with the functional area (e.g. Finance month end).
• Ensure integrity, availability & security of information and systems.

Activities include:

• Business analysis and requirements capture, using an understanding of the business domain and processes.
• Systems analysis, programming and testing.
• Data analysis & design.
• System implementation including training, support, problem resolution.
• Development of documentation for technologists and users.
• Respond and resolve break fixes, and execute preventative maintenance solutions.
• Analyse, design, code, test, implement, document and support development and enhancements to RSL applications and interfaces.
• Monitor Helpdesk and Change Control systems for incoming work.
• Update configuration/change management tools and ensure System Maps reflect any changes to application portfolio.
• Work with vendors to deliver requirements & resolve issues.
• Occasional visits to other RSL sites and customer/partner organisations may be required.

Your skills:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent, plus good SAP R3 and Abap programming experience.
• General knowledge of a wide range of IT technologies and activities, with specific knowledge of one or more technology fields.
• Use of formal systems delivery methodologies.
• Experience of delivering and supporting business critical application packages within a large organisation.

It would be great if you have/are:

• Knowledge and operational experience in a manufacturing and/or defence industry.
• Add CPS job scheduler (SAP Business Process Automation by Redwood).
• In-depth knowledge of required language(s)/applications/databases/technologies.
• Understanding of IT/Systems Engineering disciplines, including: requirements management, configuration management, change control, reliability analysis and quality management.
• Understanding of basic action planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Appreciation of all aspects of IT.
• Good written and oral communication skills.

Personal Characteristics:

• Team player - works well in a team.
• Effectively uses the specialist resources and knowledge of teammates to achieve working solutions.
• Logical – analytical thinking.
• Innovative.
• Customer focus.
• Flexibility.
• Disciplined, organised and self-motivated.
• Able to manage multiple conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Appreciates the need and benefits for controlled process and standards.

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr).
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution).
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Hybrid and site-based working opportunities, dependent on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grown-up flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focused.
• More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role.
• Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.