Job Description
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 organization driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that supports a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be the leaders who have a passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, which will allow us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
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 in our global organization that partners across the entire company. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that serve our company purpose to save and improve lives. An integral part of our company 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.
Role Overview:
Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.
The candidate will work with a globally diverse set of teams which includes SAP Basis, Security, ABAP, SAP functional team members, Infrastructure team and other IT process partners providing support for existing and new initiatives. The candidate will work closely with and advise the SAP Technical Architect on architectural topics and new applications / technologies to be integrated. The candidate will lead some cross-functional projects, relied upon to answer complex questions, and assists with program-wide initiatives. Our organization is on a transformation journey, and we envision using newer SAP technologies and infrastructure as part of this transformation and the candidate must have exposure to these new technologies. It is expected that the candidate will be able to both lead technical initiatives and be hands-on.
As SAP Authorization Architect, you will play a pivotal role provide support for SAP authorization strategy, design and execution in both production and non-production SAP systems. Your responsibilities will include managing the SAP GRC Access Control system for user provisioning and overseeing the Segregation of Duties (SoD) risk rules
What will you do in this role:
• Act as a member of some cross-functional projects relied upon to answer complex questions and assist with program wide initiatives.
• Provide input on technical strategy and best practices to support SAP authorization design
• Provide SAP GRC specific guidance for projects and process improvement initiatives and provide direction to ERP COE teams for solution realization.
• Serve as contributor to authorization strategy and execution, and as subject matter expert for GRC AC 12 including SOD management
• Coordination of authorization technical support, driving improvement initiatives related to authorizations and supporting the business as a whole on the established authorization strategy.
• Must Possess knowledge in SAP S/4HANA, Fiori role design (catalogs, spaces, and pages) security concepts and Role based Access control.
• Knowledge of SAP cloud applications like Ariba, Concur integration within the SAP landscapes.
• Awareness of Emerging technologies SAP Datasphere, DRC, CCP
• Exposure to SAP BTP, IAG, for cloud-based user access management.
• 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 for authorization design.
What Should you have:
• Must have at least 6 years’ experience with SAP Authorizations Design and GRC Support.
• Experience in supporting SAP User Access Review and in SAP SOD and Ruleset Design and support also required.
• Must possess in-depth knowledge in GRC v12 design and support and in SOX Audit Procedures
• Degree in Information technology, Engineering or equivalent
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to work independently in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Deal with ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and meet stretch goals.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, 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.
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