[Hiring] SAP Security Specialist @Belden Inc

Role Description

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/4HANA 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

• Design Leadership & Global Standards
  • Drive the overall S/4HANA 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/4HANA 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.

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 SAP system upgrades from a security perspective, including pre/post-upgrade authorization testing and remediation.
• Demonstrated ability to build and govern SoD rulesets and drive large-scale risk remediation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Security Access Control process.
• Solid understanding of SOX/ITGC compliance requirements.
• Experience running USMM (SAP System Measurement) for license audits, including reconciling user classifications and measurement results to support license compliance reporting.
• Experience managing or directing the work of both employees and external vendors/contractors on a technical deliverable.
• Strong executive communication skills; able to present design decisions and risk trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to set direction and own outcomes — comfortable as the final technical authority on design decisions.
• Strong quality-control mindset; holds self and contractors to a high bar.
• Strategic and standards-oriented, balancing global consistency with local/regional needs.
• Effective at influencing without direct authority, particularly with external partners.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for both technical and executive audiences.
• Approximately up to 25% of travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP Security or GRC certification.
• Experience with SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance (IAG) or SAP BTP security.
• Experience building a global governance model for SAP security.
• Familiarity with vendor management, SOW/deliverable review processes, and contractor performance management.
• Experience with managing SAP Full Use Equivalent licensing metrics, ensuring user classifications and authorization assignments align with license compliance requirements and support cost optimization.
• Experience with ControlPanel GRC.

Benefits

• Base compensation range of $101,400 - $152,100 plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role.
• Hybrid and remote work practices where feasible.
• Benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability.