SAP Developer (Digital Technology)

Date Posted:

2026-07-24

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

Job Title: SAP Developer

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

Why join Raytheon

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.

Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

In your role as a SAP Developer you'll enjoy:

• 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 other applications to integrate data between application. 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.

• Works closely with other staff and functional users, ensuring systems or changes are delivered in a timely and effective manner.

• Works directly with the functional / business user community on bug fixes, request 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 (eg. 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

• Working 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 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 team mates 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

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