ERP Application Security Analyst

Career Area: Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

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Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

The SAP Security Analyst is responsible for safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of SAP systems by designing, implementing, and managing security policies and procedures. This role involves analyzing business requirements, configuring SAP roles and authorizations, monitoring user access, and ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations.

• Participate in the administration and support of SAP security, including user access provisioning, role assignments, and access changes.

• Assist in developing, testing, and implementing SAP security roles and authorizations in accordance with documented requirements.

• Support testing activities related to SAP security changes, major releases and deployment activities.

• Help prepare and maintain technical and procedural documentation related to SAP security processes, roles, and controls.

• Investigate and help resolve SAP authorization and access issues, working with business users and IT partners.

Core Application Systems:
Knowledge of major production application systems used for delivery of services to internal and external clients; ability to leverage major production application systems in diverse situations.
Level Extensive

Experience:

• Manages application‑related issues, implications, and approaches with clients.

• Evaluates key interfaces and interdependencies among core applications systems.

• Explains features and benefits of core applications for consideration by business units.

• Implements existing and planned application enhancements in major business units.

• Tracks data flow between own applications and core applications in other business areas.

• Plans enhancement, conversion, and retirement strategies for core applications.

Problem Solving:
Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
Level Extensive

Experience:

• Ensures capture of lessons to be learned from a problem‑solving effort.

• Organizes potential problem solvers and leads problem resolution efforts.

• Uses varying problem‑solving approaches and techniques as appropriate.

• Contributes to standard practices for problem‑solving approaches, tools, and processes.

• Analyzes and synthesizes information and devises alternative resolution strategies.

• Develops successful resolutions to critical or wide‑impact problems.

Application Design, Architecture:
Knowledge of application design and architecture principles and practices; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools, and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
Level Extensive

Experience:

• Analyzes system requirements and translates them into detailed design specifications.

• Designs complex application architectures that meet performance, scalability, and reliability requirements.

• Evaluates and selects appropriate pattern, components, technologies, and tools for application development; integrates them with technical design.

• Leads application design reviews and walkthroughs to ensure alignment between business requirements and technical solution.

• Troubleshoots complex design issues and provides innovative solutions.

• Prepares technical design documents and blueprints for applications.

Implementation:
Knowledge of how to run applications for organizations; ability to implement application software within an organization and help end‑users perform specific tasks (ex: accounting or graphic design).
Level Working…