IT Solution Architect Principal II - SAP Application Security

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Job Summary

The SAP Application Security Architect is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and governance of SAP security architecture for the PSEG SAP Modernization project to migrate to S/4HANA. This role ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of SAP systems by establishing robust security frameworks, access controls, and compliance standards aligned with business and regulatory requirements. Key responsibilities include designing and maintaining SAP role-based access controls (RBAC), Segregation of Duties (SoD) frameworks, and identity and access management (IAM) integrations across SAP landscapes including S/4HANA, SAP Fiori, SAP BTP, and related cloud platforms (including SAP Service Cloud). The role partners closely with business, audit, compliance, infrastructure, and application teams to proactively mitigate risk, support regulatory audits, and enable secure digital transformation initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in SAP authorization concepts, security architecture design, risk management, and governance, along with proven leadership experience in complex, multi-system SAP environments.

This position reports to the SAP Modernization Technology Delivery Manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner and collaborate with all stakeholders to understand and translate goals and objectives into architecture, roadmaps and capability models. Reconcile different perspectives and drive toward consensus.
• Look across applications, infrastructure, technology components and data to when developing roadmaps and capability models that outline how technology solutions are and will be structured.
• Create and maintain reusable artifacts and patterns. Harvests artifacts across initiatives to extend the library of reusable artifacts and patterns or to enhance the existing reusable artifacts.
• Develop policies, standards, guidelines, procedures and metrics that measure architectural quality and business outcomes.
• Engage with implementation teams to encourage and promote use of existing models, methods, services and other artifacts and capabilities resulting in increased speed of technology solution delivery, making such delivery more predictable and increasing the overall re-use of technology components.
• Research architectural paradigms and modern architecture constructs. Learn how processes such as continuous delivery or technologies such as micro services impact technology architecture.
• Ensure compatibility with existing solutions infrastructure, services and strategic requirements.
• Act as a bridge among various parties during implementation of architecture components and their integration.
• Communicate the objectives and business outcomes of the technology architecture and the associated use cases in which the organization will derive the most value.
• Provide support and leadership to inform and aid evaluation and decision making in technology spending.
• Participate in the ecosystem strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.

Job Specific Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or Information Sciences preferred, or related field.
• 10 years of work experience in technology solution engineering. 12+ years of work experience in technology solution engineering without a degree.
• 6-8 years of experience in SAP security and authorization design.
• Deep expertise in SAP security architecture across S/4HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, SAP Fiori, and SAP BTP.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and maintaining role-based access controls (RBAC.)
• Proven experience implementing and managing Segregation of Duties (SoD) frameworks (e.g., SAP GRC Access Control.)
• Experience integrating SAP with enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
• Strong understanding of SAP authorization objects, profiles, and transport management.
• Experience supporting SOX, NERC, or other regulatory compliance audits.
• Knowledge of SAP cloud security principles and hybrid landscape security design.
• Department of Energy’s regulation 10 CFR 810 is required

Desired

• SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Security, SAP GRC, S/4HANA, SAP BTP).
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or similar.
• Experience with SAP GRC modules (Access Control, Process Control, Risk Management)
• Experience designing security for SAP Fiori and SAP Gateway
• Familiarity with enterprise security frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT)
• Experience leading large-scale SAP transformations (e.g., ECC to S/4HANA) from a security architecture perspective.
• Experience with large scale SAP Utility projects.