SAP Security Specialist

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About the Role

We are seeking a Senior SAP Security Specialist to serve as the global design authority and technical lead for authorization and access governance across our S/4

HANA migration program. This senior individual contributor role is responsible for setting global security standards, driving end-to-end design decisions, and providing oversight, review, and final approval of work delivered by contractors and offshore/onshore partners. The ideal candidate has led security design on at least one full-lifecycle SAP implementation and is comfortable operating as the final technical authority on security architecture decisions across a global program.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the overall S/4
  
  HANA authorization and security design strategy, making final architectural decisions on role structure, SoD ruleset design, and Fiori security models
• Define, document, and own global security standards, design principles, and naming conventions for consistency across regions, business units, and future rollouts
• Conduct quality assurance checkpoints throughout the project lifecycle to ensure contractor work aligns with global design standards and compliance requirements
• Establish reusable design templates and governance frameworks scalable across current and future implementations
• Serve as escalation point and final decision-maker for complex security design questions

Oversight, Review & Approval of Contractor Work

• Provide technical oversight of contractor/SI deliverables related to role design and SoD remediation
• Review and formally approve role builds, catalog/tile assignments, and SoD ruleset changes before promotion to test/production
• Hold contractors accountable to SLAs, documentation standards, and design specifications
• Mentor contractor teams to preserve design intent and enable knowledge transfer

S/4

HANA Migration Execution

• Lead the security workstream across Design & Build, Test Cycles, Go Live, and Hypercare phases
• Lead SoD ruleset development, and risk remediation
• Direct Fiori launchpad security design and front-end/back-end authorization alignment
• Lead cutover security activities and hypercare issue resolution

Stakeholder & Program Engagement

• Act as primary security advisor to program and IT leadership on design risk and compliance exposure
• Represent security workstream in project meetings
• Partner with global functional and technical leads (OTC, FTM, FUL, GTS, SCP, PP, EWM, MFG) to ensure security design supports redesigned business processes

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of SAP security administration experience, including full-cycle leadership of at least one SAP implementation
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience setting global security design standards across a multi-region SAP landscape
• Proven experience reviewing, quality-checking, and approving deliverables produced by external contractors or SI partners
• Expert-level knowledge of SAP authorization concepts: PFCG, SU24, SU25, SUIM, SU53, role derivation, composite/master role structures
• Experience supporting…